'Moving Pictures' is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on February 12, 1981. The album received a positive reception from current and retrospective music critics and became an instant commercial success, reaching number one in Canada and number 3 in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It remains Rush's highest-selling album in the United States, with 5 million copies sold.

'Limelight', 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Vital Signs' were released as singles across 1981, and the instrumental 'YYZ' was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

'Kerrang!' magazine listed the album at No. 43 among the '100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time'. 'Rolling Stone' magazine has listed 'Moving Pictures' at No. 10 on the 2012 readers poll 'Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time', at No. 3 on the 2015 list '50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time' (behind Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' at #1 and King Crimson's 'In the Court of the Crimson King' at #2), and at No. 379 on the 2020 edition of its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Rush was a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in 1968. Alex Lifeson (born August 27, 1953) guitars and composer, Neil Peart (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) drums, percussion, lyricist, and Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953) bass, vocals, keyboards, composer. This lineup remained intact for the remainder of the band's career, which ceased in 2018.

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