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A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1977. The...

A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1977. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Advision Studios in London. A Farewell to Kings would become Rush's first US Gold-selling album, receiving the certification within two months of its release and was eventually certified Platinum. Geddy Lee played his bass lines on acoustic bass while writing them and also came up with guitar lines. The birds heard on "A Farewell to Kings" and "Xanadu" were recorded outside near Rockfield Studios. All lyrics written by Neil Peart except where noted, all music composed by Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee except where noted. The name of the album itself may be derivative of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel A Farewell to Arms. It often deals lyrically with the theme of departure, and through departure, a sort of ascension to a state of better being; this can be said to echo the evolution of society from the days of medieval feudalism and autocratic monarchy, hence "a farewell to kings". The lyrics for the epic "Xanadu" were inspired by the 56-line poem "Kubla Khan", written circa 1797 by British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lee,