But it wasn’t really specifically about them – it was more about the idea.”Īlso included in the song is a tip of the cap to Simon And Garfunkel’s 60s classic The Sound Of Silence: ' The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls/And whispered in the sounds of silence’ became ‘ The words of the profits are written on the studio wall, concert hall/Echoes with the sounds of salesmen.’ Just a play on words – Neil being a little clever,” Lifeson says.įitting in with the song’s lyrical meaning, Lifeson had a clear vision of what he wanted the opening guitar riff to sound like: “I just wanted to give it something that gave it a sense of static – radio waves bouncing around, very electric.
Like, you’d hear ‘The Edge, 102!’ There was a station here in Toronto, CFNY, that used that as their call motto. Lifeson also points out where the song’s title came from: “I think that was a common motto for radio stations at the time. And then it was moving more towards a format, and away from that freedom, becoming more regulated, more about selling airtime. "So free-form, really a platform for expanding music at the time. They’d just talk about the songs there were no commercials or anything. Growing up in the early 70s, FM radio was such a free forum for music you’d have DJs who would play stuff for an hour. Peart wrote the lyrics on that record, as he did (with rare exceptions) on all Rush albums from 1974’s Fly By Night onwards, but Lifeson offers some insight into the meaning of the lyrics on …Radio: “That song was really a statement of where radio was going, where it had been.
When asked about any specific memories of recording the track The Spirit Of Radio, Lifeson recalls taking an unorthodox approach: “I’m sure we did it in the control room, because that’s how we worked: on a stool, sitting behind Paul Northfield, who engineered the record, with Terry there, giving Paul a kick in the back of his chair every so often when he drifted away.
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