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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = New World Man
| cover = New World Man single.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Rush
| album = Signals
| B-side = "Vital Signs" (live)
| released = August 1982
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 3:43
| label = Mercury
| writer =
* Neil Peart
* Geddy Lee
* Alex Lifeson
| producer =
* Rush
* Terry Brown
| prev_title = Closer to the Heart (live)
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Subdivisions
| next_year = 1982
| misc =
}}
"'New World Man'" is a hit single from the 1982 album 'Signals' by Canadian rock band Rush. The song was the last and most quickly 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.[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6921&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=ccntousk30frf6h4jsn237nm12 RPM 50 Singles Survey (Canada)], Oct. 9, 1982, Library and Archives Canada[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6927&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=ccntousk30frf6h4jsn237nm12 RPM 50 Singles Survey (Canada)], Oct. 16, 1982, Library and Archives Canada It was the only single by a Canadian act to top the 'RPM' chart that year.
Less successful in the United States, it nonetheless remains Rush's only American Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 21 on the 'Billboard' singles chart in October and November 1982. On the 'Cashbox' Top 100, it peaked at No. 35. It also hit No. 1 on the 'Billboard' Top Tracks chart (the first Rush single to do so).Whitburn, Joel (2004). 'The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 547.
"New World Man" reached No. 42 in the United Kingdom. A remixed version (released as a double A-side with "Countdown") later reached No. 36 in the UK in early 1983.
'Cash Box' said that "synth blips pave the way for this pulsing change of pace" for Rush, with "a more compact, almost Police-like drive."
References
See also
*List of songs recorded by Rush
*List of number-one singles of 1982 (Canada)
*List of 'Billboard' Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
Category:1982 songs
Category:1982 singles
Category:Rush (band) songs
Category:RPM Top Singles number-one singles
Category:Songs written by Alex Lifeson
Category:Songs written by Geddy Lee
Category:Songs written by Neil Peart
Category:Song recordings produced by Terry Brown (record producer)
Category:Mercury Records singles
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