The Body Electric: Rush Set Remixed, Expanded ‘Grace Under Pressure’ for March
Another of Rush’s mid-’80s works is getting expanded in 2026: 1984’s Grace Under Pressure. A 4CD or 5LP deluxe box set – each available with a Blu-ray Disc – is coming March 11, set to feature the original album remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios, a new mix by the band’s longtime collaborator Terry Brown, a remixed and expanded edition of the live album and video Grace Under Pressure Tour, plus new surround mixes of the record and restored music videos. The deluxe packaging includes a re-imagining of the cover by original artist Hugh Syme and notes from longtime bassist/frontman Geddy Lee.
Following the release of Signals in 1982, Rush’s 10th album would find them continuing to experiment with electronic sounds, even incorporating elements of ska in their progressive melange. For the first time since their debut, the Canadian trio elected to work with another producer/engineer than longtime collaborator Terry Brown, though they parted amicably; Peter Henderson, best known for his work on Supertramp’s Breakfast in America, produced Grace alongside the band. The group spent two months recording the album – the longest they’d ever spent on one LP – and galvanized listeners with a variation on their sound and standout like “The Body Electric” and the personal “Afterimage.” Nonetheless, Grace Under Pressure became Rush’s fourth consecutive Top 10 album in both Canada and America, and was promoted with a well-received tour.
That tour forms the bulk of this box set’s extras, which kick off with a new mix from the original analogue multi-track masters by none other than Terry Brown. (Richard Chycki has prepared new mixes of the album in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround, included on the accompanying Blu-ray.) Rush’s Grace-era hometown set at the Maple Leaf Gardens on September 21, 1984 was released on home video in 1986 and included in the Rush Replay X 3 DVD box set in 2006, with the audio from the feature released on CD three years later. Now, the newly expanded Grace Under Pressure Tour has been restored for the set, with Brown remixing the original concert multi-tracks and adding an additional six performances.
The show’s video components were also located and restored in HD for the Blu-ray (with optional Atmos and 5.1 mixes from Brown as well). In addition to the concert video and the various mixes of the original album, four original music videos (“Distant Early Warning,” “Afterimage,” “The Enemy Within” and “The Body Electric”) have been restored to HD quality. Additional packaging elements include new artwork from Syme inspired by each song on the album, plus additional extras including a custom acrylic LED light-up display, replica items (including a tour program, poster, concert ticket, backstage pass and press release) and three lithographs.
Rush surprised everyone last year by announcing a new tour – the first since their 2015 disbandment and subsequent death of stalwart drummer Neil Peart in 2020. Founding members Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson will embark on an arena tour in the latter half of the year with German drummer Anika Nilles. In the meantime, fans can save up for the Grace Under Pressure box, due out March 11 and available below through the group’s official store.
Grace Under Pressure (Super Deluxe Edition) (Anthem/Mercury/UMe, 2026)
4CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Official Store: 4CD/Blu-ray / 5LP/Blu-ray
CD/LP 1: Original album (2025 remaster) (released as Anthem ANR-1-1045 (CA)/Mercury 818 476-1 M-1 (U.S.), 1984)
- Distant Early Warning
- Afterimage
- Red Sector A
- The Enemy Within
- The Body Electric
- Kid Gloves
- Red Lenses
- Between the Wheels
CD/LP 2: Original album (2025 Remix by Terry Brown) (same as above track list)
CD 3-4/LP 3-5: Grace Under Pressure Tour: Live in Toronto 1984 (* previously unreleased)
- The Spirit of Radio
- Subdivisions *
- The Body Electric *
- The Enemy Within
- The Weapon
- Witch Hunt
- New World Man
- Between the Wheels *
- Red Barchetta *
- Distant Early Warning
- Red Sector A
- Closer to the Heart
- Kid Gloves *
- YYZ
- 2112: The Temples of Syrinx
- Tom Sawyer
- Red Lenses/Drum Solo *
- Vital Signs
- Finding My Way
- In the Mood
All tracks recorded live at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 9/21/1984. Disc 3, Tracks 1 and 4-7 and Disc 4, Tracks 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11 previously released on Grace Under Pressure 1984 Tour – Anthem/Mercury B0013252-02, 2009
Blu-ray
- Grace Under Pressure Tour: Live in Toronto 1984 (video version of Discs 3-4 – portions previously released on RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video/PolyGram Home Video cassette 60607, 1986); available in 48 kHz 24-bit Dolby Atmos, 96 kHz 24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, 96 kHz 24-bit PCM stereo
- Original album (2025 remaster); available in 48 kHz 24-bit Dolby Atmos (new mix by Richard Chycki), 96 kHz 24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround (new mix by Richard Chycki), 192 kHz 24-bit PCM stereo, 96 kHz 24-bit PCM stereo
- Original album (2025 Remix by Terry Brown); available in 96 kHz 24-bit PCM stereo
- Promo videos; available in 96 kHz 24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, 48 kHz 24-bit PCM stereo
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- Distant Early Warning
- Afterimage
- The Enemy Within
- The Body Electric
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Rush one of my favorites but the price on these sets are insane
Evidently, music is becoming a rich man’s hobby. This is just an insult and both band and UMG should be ashamed.
Why are comments diss on Weekend Stream post?
I would prefer two separate 2-CD sets: one of the remaster/remix and one of the live show.
Thank you, Mike and staff of TSD for your kind words about Minnesota and my brave fellow Minnesotans, it truly means a lot to see it from people you respect and enjoy reading every day. I love my state and the people of my state. Along with my parents, Minnesota raised me, Minnesota is in my blood and in my very soul I believe Minnesota has the finest, most authentic, loving, caring people in America. On a lighter note, it’s the coolest SHAPED state in the US as well. Godspeed.
Thank you, Brad. I love Minnesota so much—my brief time working with the Prince estate as part of Legacy and getting to visit there for a beautiful week was a real pinch-me moment. I continue to pray that God (whatever that means to anyone!) will continue to look over its people in these trying times. They’re really proving what I’ve long hoped to be true: that looking after one another is not out of fashion, and is the only way we’re going to survive against people who…don’t seem to have the best interests of the collective “us” in their sights.
I know this is a post about Rush, but some folks have asked why we disabled comments on our Weekend Stream post. It wasn’t a decision taken lightly. I don’t like making people feel like they’re censored (even though, as a privately held website, commenting is technically a right we grant you), but I also considered our own personal workload. I am daily taking care of twin toddlers mostly on my own, while my partner recovers from a lengthy viral illness she caught before Christmas. Making sure we are covering reissues in a timely fashion while keeping the home in order and maintaining my regular schedule of part-time and freelance work (my full-time job was evaporated a few months before they were born; they’re going to be two next month) hasn’t been easy. Adding a thin but consequential layer of “what hurtful or aggressive comments are people saying about our rightful expression of how we feel things are going in this country” to the daily routine didn’t feel worth it, so I called an audible. (Given that most of yesterday was spent in shock and disbelief that another innocent observer/protester was unjustifiably gunned down on the streets of Minneapolis hours after the Stream went live, I stand by our decision.)
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