Lots of musical things happened in 1981. One of those things was Rush’s release of their most popular record, Moving Pictures. Just a few years before that, they were almost dropped from their record label.

This week on NSTS we look at the leadup to the Moving Pictures album, how it came together. and all of the amazing intricacies that went into it – including the physical impacts Tom Sawyer’s drum tracks had on Neil Peart, who the people are on the album cover, and what the triple entendre (not just double) cover artwork really means and who was behind it.  

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