Flashback: Rush Team With Aimee Mann for Surreal ‘Time Stand Still’ Video
The three members of Rush had a lot of reasons to feel like time was flying by in a whirl by 1987. They’d been touring and recording at an insane rate for over a decade at this point, and drummer/lyricist Neil Peart conveyed his desire stop, take a breathe and appreciate the present moment in the lyrics to “Time Stand Still.” “Freeze this moment a little bit longer,” he wrote. “Make each sensation a little bit stronger/Experience slips away.”
‘Til Tuesday lead singer Aimee Mann was brought in to contribute vocals and the song became the first single from their album Hold Your Fire, a synth-heavy effort that turned off many old school Rush fans. They promoted the song with a goofy video directed by Polish Zbigniew Rybczyński that shows the band, Aimee and their equipment flying around a green screen set. In the grand tradition of Rush videos, it’s a…
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