Artist: RUSH
Album: A FAREWELL TO KINGS 40TH ANNIV. DELUXE VINYL (4LP)

Release date: 1977/ 2017
EAN/UPS: 0602557886832
Media type: LP

A Farewell to Kings—40th Anniversary second configuration will be released in a three-CD Deluxe Edition, with the newly reasserted A Farewell to Kings album, the Hammersmith Odeon show, the four new cover songs, “Cygnus X-2 Eh” outtake, Hugh Syme’s song-specific artwork and Rob Bowman’s liner notes.

The third configuration will be offered as an audiophile 180-gram four-LP Deluxe Edition featuring the same audio content as the three-CD edition with double-gatefold packaging, 32-page vinyl-size booklet, the special 12-inch turntable mat, along with Syme’s artwork and Bowman’s liner notes.

This 4LP Deluxe Edition, features the Abbey Road Mastering Studios 2015 remastered edition of the album; a complete Rush concert recorded in February 1978 at London's Hammersmith Odeon, newly mixed by longtime Rush engineer and original A Farewell to Kings producer Terry Brown from the multi-track live tapes; four newly-recorded cover versions of songs from the original album by Dream Theater, Big Wreck, The Trews and Alain Johannes; and an instrumental studio outtake of the spacey sound effects from “Cygnus X-1” the band has creatively titled “Cygnus X-2 Eh” all on 180-gram audiophile vinyl. The 4LP set also includes an elaborate new 40th anniversary cover treatment by longtime Rush creative director Hugh Syme, who has also created a new piece of artwork for each of the album's six songs, an extensive 12,000-word liner notes by Grammy®-winning rock historian Rob Bowman, double-gatefold packaging, 32-page vinyl-sized booklet and a special 12-inch turntable mat.


4-LP VINYL

LP 1 – SIDE A
Original Album - Produced by Rush and Terry Brown

A FAREWELL TO KINGS
XANADU

LP 1 – SIDE B

Closer to The Heart
Cinderella Man
Madrigal
Cygnus X-1

LP 2 – SIDE C
Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

BASTILLE DAY
LAKESIDE PARK
BY-TOR & THE SNOWDOG

LP 2 – SIDE D
Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

XANADU
A FAREWELL TO KINGS
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

LP 3 – SIDE E
Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

CYGNUS X-1
ANTHEM
CLOSER TO THE HEART

LP 3 – SIDE F
Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

2112

LP 4 – SIDE G
Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

WORKING MAN
FLY BY NIGHT
IN THE MOOD
DRUM SOLO
CINDERELLA MAN

LP 4 – SIDE H

XANADU – Dream Theater
CLOSER TO THE HEART – Big Wreck
CINDERELLA MAN – The Trews
MADRIGAL – Alain Johannes

CYGNUS X-2 EH