When was 2112 released

The main character is depicted on the back of the album cover. It's the first appearance of the famous Starman logo that became a much-loved symbol who would go on to appear on six additional Rush album covers.

In , the group released both deluxe and super-deluxe re-issues of , giving fans the chance to hear the album mixed in surround sound, among other things.

Home News. Matt Wardlaw Published: December 21, He was reading some Ayn Rand at the time. What appealed to us was what she wrote about the individual and the freedom to work the way you want to work, not the cold, libertarian perspective. Ayn Rand has always been controversial, and Rush received some backlash to calling her a genius on the sleeve.

Did that bum you out? Oh, yeah. I have to admit, it did. I always have been. I remember during our second tour of England, we did an interview with a journalist, who was very hard-left socialist, for New Musical Express [in ].

But he set forth his point of view, and then Neil took the opposing view, as more of an exercise than anything. It said that we were Nazis and we would leave our grandmothers starving in the street because we were so selfish and uncaring. It was just such a stupid, stupid thing. We got over it but they dogged us for the longest time. And we were perceived as some sort of ultra-right-wing rock band, when to be honest, I had no political interests at all at that time.

I think that was true of really all of us. What got you through that? We had a strong fan base that was building and knew something different and cared for our music and for who we were. But, as I said, it is hurtful. You learn to let it roll off your back eventually, but at the same time it does hurt.

What are your favorite songs there? It had a really cool little atmosphere to it. It was a difficult song to put together, to have that feel about it. All the parts were awkward guitar stretches, so it was a real test. The Twilight Zone TV series had been off the air for over a decade. Why did you write a song about it? I think it was playing in reruns.

Rod Serling was just so cool. He wrote so many of those episodes. He was our total hero. What are your favorite episodes? I really like that one. They were brilliant. How did that come about? We just thought it would be kind of cool if Ged and I wrote lyrics for at least one song. Even later on with my solo record, Victor , it was the hardest part. He likes those more ballad-y pieces that are emotive and sweet. How much weed were you guys smoking back then?

Probably not as much as now [ laughs ]. We were average, maybe slightly above average smokers. Ged less so; he was never a heavy smoker.

But Neil and I and a few guys in the crew were. We just thought that the whole idea of traveling the world to find the best [weed] that you can would be such a fun thing to do. The novel, published in , follows the life of a man living within a collectivist society structured around a central religious authority, the 'World Council' who dictates all workings within the society. The man discovers ancient technology hidden in an old tunnel from the 'Unmentionable Times,' and inadvertently rediscovers electricity.

He takes this discovery the World Council, who labels him a wretch for engaging in unauthorized research and subsequently seeks to punish him. The other songs on the album stand alone from the title track, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson writing lyrics for one song each "Tears" and "Lessons", respectively. All other lyrics were penned by Peart. Hugh Syme, who would play keyboards on a number of Rush songs in the future, e. Neil Peart states: "All those paeans to American restlessness and the American road carried a tinge of wistfulness, an acknowledgment of the hardships of the vagrant life, the notion that wanderlust could be involuntary, exile as much as freedom, and indeed, the understanding that freedom wasn't free.

In the mid-'70s, the band was driving to a show in downtown Los Angeles, at the Shrine Auditorium, and I noticed some graffiti splattered across a wall: 'Freedom isn't free,' and I adapted that for a song on , 'Something for Nothing'". The Starman emblem also known as the 'Man in the Star' logo was adopted by Rush fans as a logo since its first appearance on the back cover of Peart described the Starman in an interview with Creem magazine:.

The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality. With regard to the album, the 'collectivist mentality' referred to is depicted as the Red Star of the Solar Federation, which according to the plot is a galaxy-wide federation that controls all aspects of life during the year The figure in the emblem is depicted as being the 'Hero' of the album. Hugh Syme, the creator of many of Rush's album covers, commented on the design: "The man is the hero of the story. That he is nude is just a classic tradition The red star is the evil red star of the Federation, which was one of Neil's symbols.

We basically based that cover around the red star and that hero.