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TIL The album cover of Rush ‘Moving Pictures’ is meant as a triple entendre; it shows movers who are carrying pictures. On the side, people are shown crying because the pictures passing by are emotionally "moving". The back cover has a film crew making a motion picture of the whole scene.

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