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Closer To The Heart by Rush
Genre: Rock
Year: 1977
Year: 1977
"Closer to the Heart" is a single by Rush, released 1977, from the album A Farewell to Kings. It was the first Rush song to have an external co-writer, namely Peter Talbot, a friend of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. It was issued as a single for Christmas 1977, and after two near misses with "Fly By Night" and "Bastille Day" in 1975, it finally gave Rush their first hit single in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1978, starting a change of fortunes for the band in the UK. "Closer To The Heart" was one of five Rush songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010.
It is one of Rushs most popular recordings, receiving a fair amount of radio airplay still to this day. The song has also been part of the set list on nearly Read full article at wikipedia.org
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