But, ironically, it made sense.” With Permanent Waves, it wasn’t just the band’s music that was being reshaped and reappraised. Who could forget the Hemispheres album cover: a naked man floating on a ...

Syme concludes that he feels like the Permanent Waves cover has “endured the test of ... years to a more accessible and concise style. The album also included one of the group’s most famous ...

45 years ago today (1/14/80) Rush released Permanent Waves, their seventh studio album. “The Spirit of Radio” and “Freewill” became dominant radio hits and the first to reach the Top 5 on the US ...

The six songs encompassing the album encapsulated the breadth ... Neil Peart handwritten lyric sheets. Rush and Permanent Waves featured on the cover of the latest issue of Classic Rock magazine.