Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupRed Sector A · RushGrace Under Pressure℗ A Mercury Records release; ℗ 1984 UMG Recordings, Inc.Released on: 1984-...
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04. Red Sector A (90 Punkte, 14 Nennungen)
(Grace Under Pressure, 1984)
"The whole album "Grace Under Pressure" is about being on the brink and having the courage and strength to survive. The seeds for 'Red Sector A' were planted in April 1945 when British and Canadian soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. My mother was among the survivors. When the Nazis came into the Polish town where she lived, they kept the Jews in a ghetto and then marched them to a labor camp. My father was from a different village, but was at the same work camp. They were 12 or 13, and then they were both sent to Auschwitz. My father would bribe the guards to give them shoes or food, little signs of affection. They fell in love in that horrible environment. Then she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, and after the war she assumed he hadn't survived. My dad made a point of finding her. We grew up very aware of the Holocaust. My mother freaked out if I left a door unlocked. Holocaust survivors don't ever really feel secure. They're always waiting for those soldiers to come back. I was lucky that I had my dad for 12 years, and my mom for so many years." (Geddy Lee)
"I read a first person account of someone who had survived the whole system of trains and work campsand Bergen-Belsen and all of that. I also read stories from other people who came out at the end of it, always glad to be alive, which again was the essence of grace, grace under pressure is that through all of it, these people never gave up the strong will tosurvive, through the utmost horror, and total physical privations of all kinds. Despite those horrific conditions, they tried to retain some semblance of normal living conditions - something they can hold on to. One idea for the album cover was someone reaching out from behind barbed wire to clutch a flower.
I wanted to take a little bit out of being specific and, and just describe the circumstances and try tolook at the way people responded to it, and another really important and to me really moving image that I got from a lot of these accounts was that at the end of it, these people of course had been totally isolated from the rest of the world, from their families, from any news at all, and they, in cases that I read, believed that they were the last people surviving." (Neal Peart)
