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"It's amusing to hear Geddy Lee sing about something as mortal as being horny": Rush successfully cover the basics on straightforward debut album

The sound of Rush finding their way

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“We weren’t arrogant enough to think we were suddenly the most important band in the world. We just knew we were”: A metal fan’s guide to Rush

Side long epics, mad concepts and unlikely hit singles – how Canadian visionaries Rush laid down the blueprint for prog metal

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“We almost ended up performing with Geddy Lee… it’s better that it didn’t happen!” Anthrax’s Scott Ian explains his lifelong passion for Rush

Thrash metal guitarist recalls being impressed by Canadian trio who sounded like “a more muscular Led Zeppelin”

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“I wanted to bring the R40 show to everyone, but circumstances have made that impossible… I didn’t have a lump in my throat until the very last show”: Geddy Lee’s feelings when there was still an even chance of a new Rush album

Soon after the trio’s final tour had ended, the ever-optimistic frontman insisted his band should still be discussed in the present tense

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"I could have been paralyzed. I'm not exaggerating": Cherie Currie reveals how Rush almost ended her musical career

Former Runaways star Cherie Currie warms up for her upcoming European tour by dishing the dirt on her least favourite Canadians

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"I'm just racked with self-loathing and criticism": Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire once wanted to lacerate the world - now he's doing it to himself

Nicky Wire talks about the upcoming Manics tour, Richey Edwards, Rush and the band’s next album

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“Gordon’s daughter said to us, ‘Leave it to Rush to make The Way I Feel sound prog,’ so I think we succeeded”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee reunite for Gordon Lightfoot tribute

Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee paid tribute to the Canadian songwriting icon in Toronto

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Watch Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson appear onstage together at Gordon Lightfoot tribute show in Toronto

The pair returned to the stage at Massey Hall, where Rush's live album All The World's A Stage live was recorded

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"It was like finding it on the street": The Beatles' Yesterday and five other songs that were inspired by dreams

How Keith Richards, Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift were visited by melodies

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Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are still jamming together: "We’re actually playing a lot of Rush songs" – but there are caveats

"It’s funny because we sound like a really bad tribute band for the first three or four run-throughs on these things"

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“Nobody cares about new material anymore. They just want to hear the old stuff from guys like us”: Alex Lifeson says he’s jamming with Geddy Lee again – but they sound like a “really bad tribute band” at times

Alex Lifeson sets the record straight on whether Rush will ever tour again

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"We sound like a really bad tribute band": Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee have been playing Rush songs together

Don't get too excited

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"Without a doubt, the best experience I've had making an album, ever": How Rush made Snakes & Arrows and learned to love recording again

Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the making of 2007's Snakes & Ladders album

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“Keyboards were the new thing. There was this attitude: ‘They sound big and they sound cool’”: how Rush swapped guitars and kimonos for synths and mullets in the 1980s

A deep dive into Rush’s divisive 80s period, when side-long epics were out and synths came in

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"Spandau Ballet, Visage, Ultravox… there's some good music going down": In 1981, Rush's Geddy Lee was ready to blow the boundaries of progressive rock wide open

From Led Zeppelin copyists to sword and sorcery maestros to purveyors of über-prog, Rush have always pushed the envelope

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“I strongly believe that if you give a guitar to five different players – same guitar, same amp – each one of them is going to sound different”: Alex Lifeson takes us behind the scenes at Lerxst to talk gear, tone and the possibility of new music

Time will tell whether Lifeson and Geddy Lee will work together again, but in the mean time the Rush icon has lots of new gear to show us, developed in partnership with Mojotone and Godin

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“He’d pull off bass riffs that were just amazing – he doesn’t just follow the roots”: Listen to Geddy Lee’s “flamenco” strumming technique on Rush’s Snakes & Arrows

Geddy Lee’s signature sounds abound on Snakes and Arrows, but was there a new twist in his bass playing?

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"It was a pretty low time. We weren't sure of the kind of band we wanted to be": How time took its toll on Rush as they worked on the follow-up to Signals

For 1984's Grace Under Pressure, Rush brought in Supertramp producer Peter Henderson: It was not a good fit

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“I believed we would not get back together. I thought Rush was a place Neil was not going to be able to go back to emotionally”: how Rush survived the 1990s and early 2000s

Rush refound their rock spirit in the 1990s – only to be blindsided by personal tragedy

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“Don’t sell your first bass. Even if you never play it again, in later life you’ll wish you still had it”: With a stage name coined by Bootsy Collins, Freekbass names the one bass that “like an idiot” he ended up selling

Chris ‘Freekbass’ Sherman on how a Rickenbacker and a BC Rich (via Tiran Porter from the Doobie Brothers) set him on a lifelong low-end path

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"You lose interest in smashing up hotel rooms... but there's days when there's a full moon and you feel a little crazy": In 1983, Alex Lifeson talked bad behaviour, bad press, and how Rush shook off their "lousy Led Zeppelin copy" tag

When Alex Lifeson told an '80s interviewer that Rush were "not a wild band", he did so with a twinkle in his eye

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“Bass should stand on its own. It’s as powerful as the guitar”: Conrad Lant on his disdain for Ampeg SVTs and how he bought Andy Fraser’s Gibson EB-3 for £50 – “It was the exact one he played on All Right Now!”

Venom, the original black metal band, have been invoking Old Nick since 1981. On the bass, meet Conrad Lant – ‘Cronos’ to the (black) masses

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"My success with women increased when I had Geddy Lee hair": The 10 best Rush songs ever, according to the Trailer Park Boys

Bubbles, Ricky and Julian a.k.a. Canada's second-best trio the Trailer Park Boys, pick their 10 favourite Rush songs

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"All those times we shared when it was the three of us, you can't get that back": Rush's Geddy Lee looks back on his effin' life

To mark the publication of his autobiography My Effin' Life, Geddy Lee talks about the events and people who've shaped his life as a person and musician

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"They couldn't have been nicer, and it really lifted us at a moment when we could have used the lifting": Geddy Lee reveals how Robert Plant and Jimmy Page helped Rush overcome grief and loss

Led Zeppelin were a musical inspiration for Rush, but as Geddy Lee explains, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page also proved themselves to be decent human beings at a "dark, sad time"

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