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"New World Man" 
Single by Rush from the album Signals B-side "Vital Signs" (live), "Freewill" (live) Released 1982 Format 7", 12" Genre Progressive rock, new wave, hard rock Length 3:43 Label Mercury Rush singles chronology "Closer to the Heart" (Live)
(1982)"New World Man"
(1982)"Subdivisions"
(1982)Signals track listing "The Weapon"
(5)"New World Man"
(6)"Losing It"
(7)"New World Man" is a track from the 1982 album Signals by Canadian rock band Rush. The song was the last and quickest composed song on the album, stemming from a suggestion by then-Rush producer Terry Brown to even out the lengths of the two sides of the cassette version. It went to #1 (on the RPM national singles chart) in Canada, where it remained for two weeks in October 1982.[1][2] Less successful in the U.S., it nonetheless remains Rush's only American Top 40 hit, peaking at #21 on the Billboard singles chart for three weeks in October and November 1982. It also topped the Billboard Top Tracks chart for two weeks (their first single to do so).[3] "New World Man" also reached #42 in the UK; a remixed version released as a double A-side with "Countdown" later reached #36 in the UK in early 1983.
A live version of "Vital Signs" appears as the B-side on the "New World Man" single. Other than the band's self-released 1973 single of "Not Fade Away/You Can't Fight It," this is the only song Rush has ever released on a single that did not appear on a Rush album (Mercury #76179, US edition).
The song essentially follows a standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus pattern in the absence of a guitar solo.
References
- ^ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6921&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=ccntousk30frf6h4jsn237nm12
- ^ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6927&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=ccntousk30frf6h4jsn237nm12
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 547.
See also
- List of RPM number-one singles of 1982
- List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)
Categories:- 1982 singles
- Rush (band) songs
- Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one singles
- RPM Top Singles number-one singles
- Songs written by Alex Lifeson
- Songs written by Geddy Lee
- Songs written by Neil Peart
- 1980s rock song stubs
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