Exit... Stage Left

For the comic book, see Exit, Stage Left!: The Snagglepuss Chronicles.
Not to be confused with Exit Stage Right.
Exit... Stage Left
Live album by
Rush
ReleasedOctober 29, 1981 (1981-10-29)
Recorded
  • June 10–11, 1980 at The Apollo, Glasgow (Side 2)
  • March 27, 1981 at The Forum, Montreal (Sides 1, 3, 4)
Genre
Length76:36
LabelAnthem
ProducerTerry Brown
Rush chronology
Moving Pictures
(1981) 		Exit... Stage Left
(1981) 		Signals
(1982)
Singles from Exit... Stage Left
  1. "Tom Sawyer"
    Released: October 16, 1981 (UK)[1]
  2. "Closer to the Heart"
    Released: October 20, 1981 (US)[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
Rolling Stone[5]

Exit... Stage Left is the second live album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released as a double album in October 1981 by Anthem Records. After touring in support of their eighth studio album Moving Pictures (1981), the band gathered recordings made over the previous two years and constructed a live release from them with producer Terry Brown. The album features recordings from June 1980 on their Permanent Waves (1980) tour, and from March 1981 on their Moving Pictures tour.

The album received a mostly positive reception from music critics and reached number 6 in the United Kingdom, 7 in Canada, and 10 in the United States. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling one million copies in the latter country. A same-titled home video was released in 1982 that documents the band on the Moving Pictures tour. Exit... Stage Left was voted the ninth best live album of all time by Classic Rock magazine in 2004.[6]

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 54.
  2. ^ "Releases" (PDF). FMQB Album Report. 16 October 1981. p. 29.
  3. ^ AllMusic review
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  5. ^ "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
  6. ^ BBC News Entertainment Thin Lizzy top live album poll Archived 2021-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 16 April 2006.