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AP - September 10, 2022

 

Although it has been touch and go with Her Majesty's health for the last year or so, Buckingham palace announced in a statement that the Queen and her family were comforted that she lived long enough to see the 40th Anniversary release of Moving Pictures.  With the band delaying the release a year past its actual anniversary, there were rumours that the royal family were feeling stress that the band would not get the box set out in time.  It has been long known that Moving Pictures is the Queen's favourite Rush record by some margin.  Known for her cheeky sense of humour, Her Majesty would often pull the vinyl out in front of visiting dignitaries, point to the cover sleeve and say, "Look - the photo is taken at ME Park!"

 

The newly crowned King Charles III, off the record, stated after his mother's passing, "It is a bloody shame that the band could not pull it together to get the damn Signals box set out on its proper anniversary - she would have had something to look forward to, and it may have just made her hold on through the fall."  The new King made this comment, despite the fact that is well known that the Queen was not the biggest fan of the so called synth era, and preferred the classic, 3-piece approach.  We hope her joy at receiving the deluxe Moving Pictures box set kept her vital signs up, if only for a little while longer. 

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2 hours ago, Timbale said:

AP - September 10, 2022

 

Although it has been touch and go with Her Majesty's health for the last year or so, Buckingham palace announced in a statement that the Queen and her family were comforted that she lived long enough to see the 40th Anniversary release of Moving Pictures.  With the band delaying the release a year past its actual anniversary, there were rumours that the royal family were feeling stress that the band would not get the box set out in time.  It has been long known that Moving Pictures is the Queen's favourite Rush record by some margin.  Known for her cheeky sense of humour, Her Majesty would often pull the vinyl out in front of visiting dignitaries, point to the cover sleeve and say, "Look - the photo is taken at ME Park!"

 

The newly crowned King Charles III, off the record, stated after his mother's passing, "It is a bloody shame that the band could not pull it together to get the damn Signals box set out on its proper anniversary - she would have had something to look forward to, and it may have just made her hold on through the fall."  The new King made this comment, despite the fact that is well known that the Queen was not the biggest fan of the so called synth era, and preferred the classic, 3-piece approach.  We hope her joy at receiving the deluxe Moving Pictures box set kept her vital signs up, if only for a little while longer. 

Little known fact, but Alex actually got "The Bag" directly from Her Majesty. She used to put on the bag to amuse foreign dignitaries, but had to stop when she once fell over whilst her vision was obscured and pulled down Nancy Reagan`s skirt, causing ten days of national amusement.

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I think I read somewhere that she had long requested a song for her dear Corgis.

"Please, lads!". she pleaded. "They need a bedtime ballad!".

 

Dog Years was a close as they could get.

 

So she often dressed up her little loved ones in over-sized tortoise costumes, set out the bright red fire hydrant from her special edition of the Signals Ultra Royal Deluxe box set (before us devoted fans get our version) and let them roam around the room like Roombas, asking them "would you rather be in the Galapagos Islands?" 

"I wouldn't think so, no!"

 

Who knew?!

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