The RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS album release date that is Tuesday June 12, 2012 with citations and why to never use Wikipedia as a source for information.
- csukaalice8
- Jun 9, 2024
- 12 min read
By Alice Csuka.
Some Online music Websites made social media posts yesterday that CLOCKWORK ANGELS released on that day 22 years ago (June 8, 2012) but as far as I can tell this is not true. By all available accounts the singular so called “source” for this date currently reads on Wikipedia (with no real and notable reference whatsoever) a simple, one sentence blurb written by an "anonymous" User stating this date of release of the RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS album occurred first in Australia. A Google inquiry shows a cached date of June 8th on Discogs but when you go to the site, that date is nowhere I can see. If anyone can provide real evidence to support this, I will change this paper. One other Online Website, namely MusicBrainz states it released in the UK on June 9th. MusicBrainz is run like Wikipedia in that anyone can contribute to the forum. These are the things people need to understand and scrutinize because anyone can add dates, comments etc. to these certain websites without any proof whatsoever. For these reasons students and teachers are not allowed to use such Websites. I intend to show you why.
As you can see below from the Wikipedia page on CLOCKWORK ANGELS the “citation” labelled as “a” reads as follows:
Australian release date, released in North America on June 12 and in Europe on June 13”.
Wikipedia’s citation number 1 and it’s link to <www.jbhifionline.com.au> appears to be dead so if anyone has a hard copy, please do send me a digital copy. Here is a copy and link of the archived citation on that page from The Wayback Machine.
This page edited by a bot of whom the User is “GreenC” who is paid to edit on Wikipedia. The most recent addition for this page on May 13, 2024 by the above bot and edited on June 1, 2024 by a different bot.
Here is an example of how much editing by various bots and anonymous Users happen. For the June 8th date for release in Australia there are no 2024 updates after June 17, 2023. As you can see, three Users, Tenebra Blu, FlightTime and Chris the speller (the first addition was made on June 3, 2023 by this User) , so whoever they are (all of whom have a User page on Wikipedia) had a difference of opinion, opinion being the significant key word here. As you can clearly see Wikipedia is used much like any social media Software. Furthermore, the fact that anyone with the right tools can create images that look genuine, such a fake 𝕏 posts, deep fake videos etc., I shall remain sceptical until someone provides undisputable proof and more than one Wayback Machine digital archive post from JB HiFi in Australia.
(PS: you can find those User and bot pages on your own, I don’t get any cash or compensation for writing these RUSH history blog posts!).
The following mini essay is the evidence I’ve found that I selected to support the date of June 12 for this album. There is much more but for the purposes of this short paper, these are sufficient.
Now let begin at the end...
In 2014 RUSH won all three categories for on fan vote in Music Express Magazine (this magazine was created in Calgary, my hometown in the early 1970s by Keith Sharp and Ian Mark became the official concert photographer). Ian’s pictures of RUSH on their A Farewell To Kings show in Calgary (I was there even though I was not allowed to go, sure Dad ha ha!) and his coinciding YouTube videos on the band can be viewed on his Website here although it only contains 3 photos https://www.ianmarkmusicphotos.com/rush here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UFJ35xN0fA and also on John Patuto’s Cygnus-X1 Website which is more comprehensive for still photos here: https://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/concert-calgary-09.11.1977.php
Incidentally, the picture that started this all for me is the following I found when John’s Website went down and I went looking for cached pictures from the Calgary AFTK show because I would look at them often wondering and thinking I had to have been there, it all looks so familiar. It wasn’t until I found definitive proof on Bob Wegner’s Max Webster tribute Website where I found a couple of picture from that night at the Stampede Corral with Ian Mark’s pictures and then, yes there it was, the picture of Max Webster from behind the audience with me in between the two boys I went with. I wonder if all the girls there stayed for RUSH but I’ll never remember that, I just turned 12 that summer so give me a break, I don’t have a photographic memory you know!
When I gave a copy of this to Donna Halper and asked her for her thoughts and advice she wrote back stating it could have been taken by a local photographer maybe from a local news outlet and since I have it confirmed it is not Ian’s (you can see the difference in tone and quality), it makes the most sense. Now, I have a faint recollection of talking to a guy taking pictures from the floor amidst the audience and asking him about that during that show and it very well could be I was beside him when he took this shot. This picture is the key that unlocked the door to my RUSH concert history attendance and trying to remember this and that over the past 4 years since Neil died.
Photographer unknown. RUSH A Farewell To Kings concert at the Stampede Corral Sunday, September 11, 1977.
Back to CLOCKWORK ANGELS.
HEADSTONES & RUSH BIG WINNERS OF 2014 MUSIC EXPRESS AWARDS
Rush Unveil 'Clockwork Angels' Details
In Exclaim! Magazine.
BY Gregory Adams Published Apr 10, 2012
As far back as 2010, prog gods Rush have been teasing fans with the prospect of an upcoming album, and now it's been made official: Clockwork Angels finally comes out June 12 through Anthem/Roadrunner.
As previously reported, the band's 20th studio album was partially recorded at Nashville's Blackbird Studios with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Deftones) in 2010, yielding complete versions of album tracks "Caravan" and "BU2B," but additional recording sessions took place in 2011 at Toronto's Revolution Recording and Hollywood's Ocean Way Studio.
Considering there will be an upcoming novelization from sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson, Rush's latest will suitably feature some far-out lyrics. As hinted at previously, the story "chronicles a young man's quest across a lavish and colourful world of steampunk and alchemy as he attempts to follow his dreams," and is apparently just chock full of anarchists, pirates and an ominous figure known as the Watchmaker.There's still a two-month waiting period before the album arrives, but the group will release first single "Headlong Flight" on April 19.The always road-ready Rush have also promised to unveil North American tour details in the near future.
billboard
Music News
Rush’s ‘Clockwork Angels’ Hits June 12
The trio's first album in five years is due June 12.
04/11/2012
Rush will return this summer with “Clockwork Angels,” the iconic prog-rock band revealed on Wednesday. The new album, due June 12, will be the trio’s first studio effort since 2007’s “Snakes & Arrows” and their debut for Anthem/Roadrunner Records.
For the new set, the band turned again to “Snakes & Arrows” co-producer Nick Raskulinecz and recorded in Nashville and Toronto. The conceptual set will trace a protagonist’s journey through a world of steampunk, alchemy and an exotic carnival; drummer and lyricist Neil Peart is also penning a novelization of the album with prolific author Kevin J. Anderson.
Between albums, Rush has kept busy with a series of tours, documenting their most recent dates with the “Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland” live album and DVD last November. (They also made an appearance as the object of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel’s sonic affection in the 2009 film “I Love You, Man.”)
The band is sharing an advanced taste of the music with a hard-riffing album trailer based on the “Clockwork” cover art. Watch it, and get the track list, below
Music News
Album Review: Rush, ‘Clockwork Angels’
RUSH Clockwork Angels Producers: Rush, Nick Raskulinecz Anthem/Roadrunner Records Release Date: June 12 It’s not exactly a news flash…
06/18/2012
RUSH Clockwork Angels Producers: Rush, Nick Raskulinecz Anthem/Roadrunner Records Release Date: June 12
It’s not exactly a news flash when at the beginning of Rush’s latest album, “Clockwork Angels,” frontman Geddy Lee proclaims, “I can’t stop thinking big.” The Canadian trio has always stretched large ideas across an expansive soundscape, blending hard rock, prog and metal. And the five years since the band’s last album, “Snakes & Arrows,” have given Rush plenty of time to create a lot of new music. “Clockwork Angels” weighs in at a formidable 66 minutes, time enough for a kitchen-sink’s worth of ideas and a weighty conceptual focus by drummer/lyricist Neil Peart about one man’s journey to realize his dreams. (Look for the novel soon.) The album’s seven-minute opuses range from tight (“Headlong Flight”) to the messy title track, while fans of Rush’s classic, riff-driven approach and ensemble virtuosity will find aural nirvana in “The Anarchist,” “Seven Cities of Gold,” “The Wreckers” and “Wish Them Well.”
Rush Announces Clockwork Angels Tour
RUSH TO VISIT 33 CITIES THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA IN 2012
Tickets on sale in select markets beginning April 27th at Rush Announces Clockwork Angels Tour
RUSH TO VISIT 33 CITIES THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA IN 2012
Tickets on sale in select markets beginning April 27th at [LiveNation <dot> com]
News provided by Live Nation Entertainment Apr 19, 2012, 07:00 ET
LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alongside the release of the powerful new single "Headlong Flight," Live Nation announced today that Rush will embark on a North American Tour in support of their upcoming and highly anticipated new album, "CLOCKWORK ANGELS." This year's fall tour will visit approximately 33 cities beginning September 7th in Manchester, NH, and finishing December 2nd in Houston, TX, with stops along the way in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Bridgeport, Philadelphia, Saskatoon, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tampa, as well as dates in Canada and more (complete tour itinerary follows). Tickets for the Clockwork Angels Tour will go on sale starting April 27th in select markets at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.
"CLOCKWORK ANGELS," the band's 20th studio album, will be released on June 12th. This is the renowned trio's first new collection of original material in over five years and their first studio release via Anthem/Roadrunner records. With more than 40 million records sold worldwide and countless sold-out tours, Rush – Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart – is not only one of the most inventive and compelling groups in rock history, but remains one of the most relevant.
Singer/bassist Geddy Lee remarked, "'Headlong Flight' was one of those songs that was a joy to write and record from beginning to end. Alex [Lifeson] and I had blast jamming in my home studio one day before the 2nd leg of the Time Machine Tour and I did not revisit that jam until a year later. Alex and I assembled the song to be an instrumental and its original title was 'Take that lampshade off yo head!' but once we saw the lyrics Neil had written for 'Headlong Flight,' I knew that the spirit of the lyrics matched the instrumental perfectly and it was just a matter of making them fit and writing the melodies."
Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart explained, "In late 2011, my drum teacher Freddie Gruber, towards the end of his long and adventurous 84 years, was reminiscing among friends and former students. Often he would shake his head and say, 'I had quite a ride. I wish I could do it all again.' That is not a feeling I have ever shared about the past -- I remain glad that I don't have to do it all again. While working on the lyrics for 'Headlong Flight,' the last song written for Clockwork Angels, I tried to summarize my character's life and adventures. My own ambivalence colored the verses, while Freddie's words inspired the chorus 'I wish that I could live it all again.'"
The RIAA has certified Rush for the third most consecutive gold/platinum studio albums by a rock band, topped only by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Rush's vast catalog includes such classics as 1974's self-titled debut, 1976's "2112," 1981's "MOVING PICTURES," 1996's "TEST FOR ECHO," and 2002's "VAPOR TRAILS." Rush's last studio album, 2007's "SNAKES & ARROWS," debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200, marking the band's highest chart debut since 1993, as well as their eleventh top 10 album in the U.S. The album's first single, "Far Cry," hit the top 5 at mainstream rock radio, with airplay on over 100 radio stations in the US and the track "Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category.
In addition to their commercial success, Rush has also been recognized with a number of Juno Awards and multiple Grammy nominations, including one for the acclaimed documentary "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage." Enjoying a recent pop culture renaissance, Rush made a rare television appearance - their first in over 30 years - on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" and a memorable cameo in the film "I Love You, Man." A career-chronicling Rolling Stone feature summed up the renowned rock trio's continuing artistic vitality by observing, "It's true that Rush doesn't mean today what it did in '76 or even '96. It may mean more."
musicradar
Interview: producer Nick Raskulinecz on Rush's Clockwork Angels
By Joe Bosso
published 11 June 2012
"This album was Rush’s vision," says Raskulinecz. "It wasn’t mine. I was there to make sure it was played as brilliantly as they could play it, sung as high as Geddy Lee could sing it, and have the guitar solos bring me to tears.
“I feel like we achieved all of those elements. There’s so much emotion that we captured, just total from-the-gut expression. Three dudes making music – that’s Rush!”
As part of our comprehensive coverage of the release of Rush's Clockwork Angels, Nick Raskulinecz talks us through the album track-by-track on the following pages.
So click through to read it all here: https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-producer-nick-raskulinecz-on-rushs-clockwork-angels-548165
Billboard Magazine (from the archives)
ALBUMS
RUSH
Clockwork Angels
Producers: Rush, Nick Raskulinecz Anthem/Roadrunner Records
Release Date: June 12
It's not exactly a news flash when at the beginning of Rush's latest album, Clockwork Angels, frontman Geddy Lee proclaims, "I can't stop thinking big." The Canadian trio has always stretched large ideas across an expansive soundscape, blending hard rock, prog and metal. And the five years since the band's last album, Snakes & Arrows, have given Rush plenty of time to create a lot of new music. Clockwork Angels weighs in at a formidable 66 minutes, time enough for a kitchen -sink's worth of ideas and a weighty conceptual focus by drummer/lyricist Neil Peart about one man's journey to realize his dreams. (Look for the novel soon.) The album's seven -minute opuses range from tight ("Headlong Flight") to the messy title track, while fans of Rush's classic, riff -driven approach and ensemble virtuosity will find aural nirvana in "The Anarchist," "Seven Cities of Gold," "The Wreckers" and "Wish Them Well."-GG
Issue: 23 June 2012, Page 28.
For posterity, CLOCKWORK ANGELS premiered on Billboard’s Top 200 printed in the June 30, 2012 issue at the number 2 spot. Looking at the top 5 artists, one can see how RUSH was of an entirely different category of music as compared to the others.
In Canada of the same issue CLOCKWORK ANGELS debuted in the number 1 spot and for good reason.
RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS DEBUTS AT #1
RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS DEBUTS AT #1 [share this release] TORONTO, ON (20 JUNE 2012) Legendary rock band Rush remains on form with their 20th studio album, CLOCKWORK ANGELS (Anthem/Universal Music Canada), which has today debuted at #1 on the Nielson SoundScan Album chart with first week sales in excess of 19,600 in Canada. This marks the bands first #1 debut for a studio album in the SoundScan era. Lyrically, CLOCKWORK ANGELS chronicles a young mans quest across a lavish and colourful world of steampunk and alchemy as he attempts to follow his dreams. The story features lost cities, pirates, anarchists, an exotic carnival, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. The novelization of CLOCKWORK ANGELS is being written by science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson in collaboration with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart and will be released this September by ECW Press. The recording of CLOCKWORK ANGELS began in April 2010 at Nashvilles Blackbird studios with Grammy Award winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Deftones) who also collaborated with the band on their last studio album, 2007s SNAKES & ARROWS. Rush co-produced both records. The songs Caravan and BU2B were completed during that first session and performed nightly during Rushs wildly successful Time Machine Tour, which ran from June 2010 to June 2011. Work on CLOCKWORK ANGELS resumed in the fall of 2011 at Revolution Recording in Toronto after the tours finale, with additional strings (arranged by David Campbell) recorded at Hollywoods Ocean Way Studios earlier this year. Rush will begin their North American tour dates supporting CLOCKWORK ANGELS this September, including six Canadian dates. With more than 40 million records sold worldwide and countless sold-out tours, Rush Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart is not only one of the most inventive and compelling groups in rock history, but remains one of the most popular. Rushs vast catalogue includes such classics as 1974s self-titled debut, 1976s 2112, 1981s MOVING PICTURES, 1996s TEST FOR ECHO, and 2002s VAPOR TRAILS. In addition to their commercial success, Rush has also been recognized with a number of Juno Awards and multiple Grammy nominations, including one for the acclaimed documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage at last years gala event. Enjoying a recent pop culture renaissance, Rush made a rare television appearance - their first in over 30 years - on Comedy Centrals The Colbert Report and a memorable cameo in the film I Love You, Man. A career-chronicling Rolling Stone feature summed up the renowned rock trios continuing artistic vitality by observing, Its true that Rush doesn’t mean today what it did in76 or even 96. It may mean more. rush.com CLOCKWORK ANGELS 2012 CANADIAN TOUR DATES Sep 26 Winnipeg, MB MTS Centre Sep 28 Saskatoon, SK Credit Union Centre Sep 30 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place Oct 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre Oct 16 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre Oct 18 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
*Note: all punctuation errors within the actual article and there are too many to properly add in the “[sic]” and I presume this is due to the age of this article that may have deteriorated over time because of upgrades in Software and not made by the publisher originally.
As I’ve written for some time now, there’s good reason I created the Hashtag #RushIsTheirOwnGenre! I made this meme, put it on Instagram, tagged RUSH and they know about it because they "liked" it and I really like that. (I made two different ones but this is my favourite). Notice the Starman on Alex's wrist in the position of where a watch would be worn!
#RUSHHistoryMatters That's why I write these things. With respect and heartfelt thanks to Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart (in memoriam) and RUSH the band "otherwise known as the Holy Triumvirate".♔♔♔
♫While our loving Watchmaker/Loves us all to death♫ Blah blah blah!
**Additional credits to my compilation of research here and for links or to read additional copies of articles on RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS not included see Eric Hansen’s Power Windows and John Patuto’s Cygnus-X1 Websites archives via these links.
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