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Rush doesn’t have a bad album — they excel in every genre they attempt, and Peart’s lyrics are poetry that could stand even without the music. If you want to get into the band’s discography, the new ...

There aren’t many known stories behind this Rush album, but Neil Peart did describe the background of “Xanadu” specifically. “Let’s call that our experimental phase,” said Peart.

If Rush has a cult following, within that cult following, there’s a following for Hemispheres. I’m not sure we’re up for that one.” It’s also worth mentioning that had the band decided to play this ...

Their sacrifices, however, resulted in an album that elevated Rush to a new artistic plane. The opening track, "Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres," is an 18-minute epic tackling existential themes ...

Canada’s greatest power trio was assembled slowly, one piece at a time. Toronto guitarist Alex Lifeson co-founded Rush as a teenager in 1968, and a few months later, invited a childhood friend ...

At the end of the ’70s, Rush had arrived at a crossroads. The masters of progressive heavy rock felt trapped in a world of their own making after a series of fantastically overblown albums – ...

Solidly helmed by original drummer John Rutsey on his only album with the band, Rush ’s unreconstructed hard-rock has the horn (Need Some Love; In The Mood), opens with Finding My Way’s giant-slaying ...

Hemispheres, Rush’s sixth studio album, was originally released in October 1978, and it built upon the adventurous sonic template the band established on its acclaimed 1977 effort, A Farewell To ...

But the last Rush album of the ’70s was also the last of its kind. After Hemispheres, the Canadian trio - Geddy, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer Neil Peart - took a radical new direction. With the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. “My favourite Rush song would have to be Jacob’s Ladder from the Permanent Waves album ...

Once Neil Peart joined the band, Rush finally had a formula that worked, putting some of their most celebrated songs like ‘Anthem’ with tracks that felt like doing advanced calculus while listening to ...