Freewill
~ Song
Relationships
| lyricist: | Neil Peart |
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| composer: | Geddy Lee Alex Lifeson |
| publisher: | Core Music Publishing Anthem Core Music Publishing (SOCAN‐affiliated) (from 1980 to present) |
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| lyrics page: | https://genius.com/Rush-freewill-lyrics [info] |
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| other databases: | https://www.whosampled.com/Rush/Freewill/ [info] |
| Songfacts: | https://www.songfacts.com/facts/rush/freewill [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q16837772 [info] |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| recordings | ||||
| 1979-09-12 | Freewill (live, 1979-09-12: Allentown Fairgrounds, Allentown, PA, USA) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 1979-09 – 1979-10 | Freewill | Rush | 5:24 | |
| 1980-02-02 | Freewill (live, 1980-02-02: Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA) | live | Rush | 6:02 |
| 1980-06-04 – 1980-06-08 | Freewill (live, 1980‐06: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK) | live | Rush | 5:46 |
| 1980-09-30 | Freewill (live, 1980-09-30: Allentown Fairgrounds, Allentown, PA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:58 |
| 1980-09-30 | Freewill (live, 1980‐09‐30: Allentown Fairgrounds, Allentown, PA, USA) | live | Rush | 6:05 |
| 1981-03-01 | Freewill (live, 1981-03-01: International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Rush | 6:05 |
| 1981-03-01 | Freewill (live, 1981-03-01: International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA) | live | Rush | 6:09 |
| 1981-03-25 | Freewill (live, 1981-03-25: Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:51 |
| 1981-03-27 | Free Will (live, 1981‐03‐27: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:31 |
| 1981-03-27 | Free Will (live, 1981-03-27: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:31 |
| 1981-03-27 | Freewill (live, 1981-03-27: The Forum, Montréal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:21 |
| 1981-03-27 | Freewill (live, 1981‐03‐27: The Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:35 |
| 1981-03-27 | Freewill (live, 1981‐03‐27: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:33 |
| 1981-03-27 | Freewill (live, 1981-03-27: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:45 |
| 1981-06-12 | Freewill (live, 1981-06-12: Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA) | live | Rush | 6:07 |
| 1981-06-14 | Freewill (live, 1981-06-14: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, USA) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 1982-12-09 | Freewill (live, 1982‐12‐09: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 5:36 |
| 1983-03-25 | Freewill (live, 1983-03-25: Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC, USA) | live | Rush | 5:45 |
| 1983-04-09 | Freewill (live, 1983-04-09: Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:29 |
| 1983-05-21 | Freewill (live, 1983‐05‐21: Wembley Arena, London, England, UK) | live | Rush | 5:27 |
| 1983-05-21 | Freewill (live, 1983‐05‐21: Wembley Arena, London, England, UK) | live | Rush | 5:25 |
| 1986 | Freewill (live, 1984‐09: Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:21 |
| 1990-04-22 | Freewill (live, 1990-04-22: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, USA) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 1990-05-08 | Freewill (live, 1990-05-08: Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, USA) | live | Rush | 4:04 |
| 1990-06-17 | Freewill (live, 1990-06-17: Alpine Valley Amphitheater, Elkhorn, WI, USA) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1990-06-27 | Freewill (live, 1990‐06‐27: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA) | live | Rush | 3:47 |
| 1991-10-28 | Freewill (live, 1991-10-28: Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) | live | Rush | 4:08 |
| 1991-11-10 | Freewill (live, 1991-11-10: Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1991-11-16 | Freewill (live, 1991-11-16: John F. Savage Hall, Toledo, OH, USA) | live | Rush | 4:04 |
| 1991-12-07 | Freewill (live, 1991-12-07: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 3:05 |
| 1991-12-07 | Freewill (live, 1991‐12‐07: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 1991-12-07 | Freewill (live, 1991‐12‐07: Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1991-12-07 | Freewill (live, 1991-12-07: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 4:03 |
| 1991-12-07 | Freewill (live, 1991-12-07: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 3:03 |
| 1991 | Free Will (live, 1991: New York City, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 3:06 |
| 1992-01-30 | Freewill (live, 1992‐01‐30: Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA) | live | Rush | 3:02 |
| 1992-01-30 | Freewill (live, 1992‐01‐30: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, USA) | live | Rush | 4:06 |
| 1992-02-23 | Freewill (live, 1992-02-23: Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, USA) | live | Rush | 4:07 |
| 1992-02-23 | Freewill (live, 1992-02-23: Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, USA) | live | Rush | 4:07 |
| 1992-02-25 | Freewill (live, 1992-02-25: Pensacola Civic Center, Pensacola, FL, USA) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1992-02-25 | Freewill (live, 1992-02-25: Civic Center, Pensacola, FL, USA) | live | Rush | 4:03 |
| 1992-03-15 | Freewill (live, 1992-03-15: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 3:56 |
| 1992-04-17 | Freewill (live, 1992‐04‐17: Wembley Arena, London, England, UK) | live | Rush | 4:16 |
| 1992-04-23 | Free Will (live, 1992‐04‐23: Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1992-04-29 | Freewill (live, 1992-04-29: Hans-Martin Schlayerhalle, Stuttgart, Germany) | live | Rush | 4:04 |
| 1992-05-03 | Free Will (live, 1992-05-03: Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | live | Rush | 4:05 |
| 1992-06-12 | Freewill (live, 1992-06-12: Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO, USA) | live | Rush | 4:03 |
| 1992-06-14 | Freewill (live, 1992-06-14: Blockbuster Pavilion, Charlotte, NC, USA) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 1992-06-14 | Freewill (live, 1992-06-14: Blockbuster Pavilion, Charlotte, NC, USA) | Rush | 4:05 | |
| 1996-10-18 | Freewill (live, 1996-10-18: Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 5:35 |
| 1996-10-19 | Freewill (live, 1996-10-19: Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 5:32 |
| 1996-10-22 | Freewill (live, 1996-10-22: Ervin J. Nutter Center, Fairborn, OH, USA) | live | Rush | 5:41 |
| 1996-10-31 | Freewill (live, 1996-10-31: Kiel Center, St. Louis, MO, USA) | live | Rush | 5:36 |
| 1996-11-09 | Freewill (live, 1996-11-09: Fleet Center, Boston, MA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:35 |
| 1996-12-05 | Freewill (live, 1996-12-05: The Summit, Houston, TX, USA) | live | Rush | 5:43 |
| 1996-12-06 | Freewill (live, 1996-12-06: Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena, New Orleans, LA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:53 |
| 1997-06-14 | Freewill (live, 1997-06-14: New World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL, USA) | live | Rush | 5:36 |
| 1997-06-22 | Freewill (live, 1997-06-22: Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre, Camden, NJ, USA) | live | Rush | 5:20 |
| 1997-06-22 | Freewill (live, 1997-06-22: Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre, Camden, NJ, USA) | live | Rush | 5:40 |
| 1997-06-23 | Freewill (live, 1997-06-23: Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:37 |
| 1997-06-30 | Freewill (live, 1997-06-30: Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:29 |
| 2002-09-21 | Freewill (live, 2002-09-21: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV, USA) | live | Rush | 5:30 |
| 2002-09-25 | Freewill (live, 2002-09-25: Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:38 |
| 2002-10-24 | Freewill (live, 2002-10-24: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, USA) | live | Rush | 5:36 |
| 2002-10-27 | Freewill (live, 2002-10-27: First Union Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:44 |
| 2002-11-02 | Freewill (live, 2002-11-02: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA) | live | Rush | 5:37 |
| 2002-11-22 | Freewill (live, 2002-11-22: Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil) | live | Rush | ?:?? |
| 2002-11-23 | Freewill (live, 2002-11-23: Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) | live | Rush | 5:40 |
| 2002-11-23 | Freewill (live, 2002-11-23: Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) | live | Rush | 5:49 |
| 2003-07-30 | Freewill (live, 2003-07-30: Downsview Park, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:30 |
| 2003-07-30 | Freewill (live, 2003‐07‐30: Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, Downsview Park, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:33 |
| 2003-07-30 | Freewill (live, 2003-07-30: Downsview Park, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:34 |
| 2007-06-13 | Freewill (live, 2007-06-13: HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:42 |
| 2007-06-16 | Freewill (live, 2007-06-16: Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa, FL, USA) | live | Rush | 5:45 |
| 2007-06-23 | Freewill (live, 2007-06-23: Nissan Pavilion, Bristow, VA, USA) | live | Rush | 5:56 |
| 2007-09-15 | Freewill (live, 2007-09-15: Centre Bell, Montreal, QC, Canada) | live | Rush | 6:09 |
| 2007-09-22 | Freewill (live, 2007-09-22: Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada) | live | Rush | 5:54 |
| 2007-10-16 | Freewill (live, 2007-10-16/17: Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | live | Rush | 5:45 |
| 2007-10-16 – 2007-10-17 | Freewill (live, 2007‐10: Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | live | Rush | 6:04 |
| 2007-10-16 – 2007-10-17 | Freewill (live, 2007‐10: Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | live | Rush | 6:02 |
| 2007-10-16 – 2007-10-17 | Freewill (live, 2007-10: Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam, Holland) | live | Rush | 5:46 |
| 2007-10-27 | Freewill (live, 2007-10-27: Stockholm Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden) | live | Rush | 6:04 |
| 2008-06-27 | Freewill (live, 2008-06-27: Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI, USA) | live | Rush | 6:01 |
| 2011-04-15 | Free Will (live, 2011‐04‐15: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Rush | 5:29 |
| 2011-04-15 | Freewill (live, 2011‐04‐15: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH, USA) | live | Rush | 5:30 |
| Freewill | cover and instrumental | 8-Bit Misfits | 4:56 | |
| Freewill | cover | Andrew Bissell | 2:53 | |
| Freewill | cover | Mythiasin | 5:24 | |
| Freewill | cover | Gregoor van der Loo | 5:30 | |
| Freewill | cover and instrumental | Vitamin String Quartet | 3:18 | |