[2] Other successful singles from that period include "Ring of Ice", "Destiny", "I Come Undone", "You're My One and Only", "Higher Ground", "25 Lovers", "If You're Ever Gonna Lose My Love", "Heart over Mind" and "Flames of Paradise", a duet with Elton John.

Rush and her brothers lived with their mother until she was a toddler, and then with their father and his second wife on the Upper West Side of the borough of Manhattan.

Rush studied violin at the Juilliard School and also took piano lessons, although she did not enjoy these instruments and instead took to playing the guitar in private.

[3] Rush's debut studio album, titled with her legal name of Heidi Stern, was released locally in Seattle, Washington, in 1979.

[5] After meeting singer, songwriter, and producer Gene McDaniels in Seattle, she went to Los Angeles to record demo songs with him.

[citation needed] In 1982, following McDaniels's persistence, Rush moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father was an opera singer for a short period of time.

[citation needed] She has never had vocal training, however she is proficient in music theory due to her two years in the children's orchestra as first violinist.

[citation needed] Rush's debut single with CBS Records International was "Tonight", which was released in West Germany under her birth name of Heidi Stern in 1982.

She performed covers of "Goldfinger", "The Man with the Golden Gun", "For Your Eyes Only" and "Thunderball" at the concerts and astonished the audience with her singing.

Rush herself co-wrote eight of the ten songs on the album, and other songwriters included Mary Susan Applegate, Patrick Henderson, Richard Feldmann, Marcy Levy and Eric Klapperton.

[15] It was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records at the time as the best-selling single by a female solo artist in the history of the British music industry.

[18][19] The album additionally achieved top 10 placements in Australia, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

She again worked with producers Gunther Mende and Candy DeRouge, as well as songwriter Mary Susan Applegate, and herself co-wrote eight of the ten songs on the album.

[25] On this album Rush worked with American producers and songwriters Desmond Child, Bruce Roberts, Andy Goldmark, Ellen Shipley, Morrie Brown, Taylor Rhodes, Tom DeLuca, Tom Whitlock, Rick Nowels, Mark Radice and Michael Bolton.

There was also guitar work from Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi and British singer-songwriter Elton John performed a duet with Rush titled "Flames of Paradise".

The album's third single "Heart over Mind" reached the top 30 in Austria, West Germany and Switzerland, and also entered the dance charts in the United States.

These included Bob Halligan Jr., Chuck Wild, Ric Wake, Michael Omartian, Diane Warren, Keith Forsey and Jellybean.

Songwriters included Amy Sky, Bruce Gaitsch, Jackie Rawe, Alfie Zappacosta, Graham Shaw, Tomas Ledin, Felix Weber and David Palmer.

Between her leaving CBS and signing with EMI - Rush studied micro and macro economics at Harvard University in Boston.

She publicly acknowledged that being less known as a singer in the United States, allowed her to raise her daughter in the US with a more stable and somewhat private environment.

She could still travel and perform, but also enjoyed the luxury of songwriting with colleagues based on the East Coast and being available to her daughter as a single mother.

It also included all the B-sides and other rare or unreleased tracks (among them four James Bond theme songs, recorded live in 1984 and only released in a very limited edition by the Berlin Philharmonic).