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All the songs Rush have never played live… yet

Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?

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“I think he’s the most underrated guitarist in rock history. People don’t realise how inventive he was”: Geddy Lee, Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci on the guitar genius of Rush legend Alex Lifeson

Lee explains how Lifeson made the Canadian prog trio greater than the sum of their parts

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“I was sitting there thinking, 'I have no idea how I'm learning that,' but somehow it's working because I learned those songs in a completely different way”: How Anika Nilles prepared for the Rush tour

She says she went down “the Rush rabbit hole”

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“She was a complete stranger. She was a bit intimidated at first because she’d heard of the band, but she wasn’t a Rush fan”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles’ rollercoaster audition for Rush's Fifty Something tour

Their five-day session with Nilles wasn’t an audition, but it took until the last day for their doubts over a Rush reunion tour to be destroyed

Guitar World

Rush mix it up on night two of the Fifty Something tour - and play the whole of 2112

Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles and Loren Gold make more memories at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles

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The fumble and the fill: Two moments of genius from Anika Nilles' emotional first show with Rush

Rush have returned to the stage, and we're feeling it

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Rush play first show in 11 years, armed with double-neck guitars and deep cuts

The prog legends returned to the stage at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and the setlist and gear on display are a sight to behold

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We have liftoff! Watch Rush return to the stage in Los Angeles - includes full setlist

After 3964 days, Rush are back

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“He asked, ‘Will you guys ever tour again?’ We said, ‘We’re going out in 2026.’ The crowd laughed – then realised we weren’t kidding”: How Rush transformed from political pariahs to comeback kings

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson draw a career line from the early 80s to 2027. They say they might continue after that, if they can stand each other – and if they can stand

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“It’s a one-string instrument with a handle on it, and I hit it with a stick”: Les Claypool’s bonkers one-string leads the biggest (and strangest) bass releases of the month

May saw the reissue of Fender's best-selling bass, a custom Rickenbacker for Geddy Lee, and a supersized version of the daddy of all fuzz

Guitar World

“I walked home in the rain thinking: ‘Oh my God, I’m gonna be a plumber for the rest of my life!’” Alex Lifeson can’t forget what happened after Rush opened for the New York Dolls

The guitarist recalls an early-days Spinal Tap moment, and reveals what it might take for him to follow Geddy Lee’s lead and write a book

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“We were heavily in debt. Either we go home, and I go work for my dad as a plumbing assistant, or we just say screw everybody”: Alex Lifeson on the Rush “protest record” that saved the band – and won them their independence

How Rush at the brink led to Lifeson, Lee and Peart crafting one of their most commercially successful records

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"If you keep exploiting fans' trust and failing, you're not going to last very long." Rush's Geddy Lee on the nature of fandom, and how "the world's smallest symphony orchestra" kept fans invested in their musical journey for five decades

"With every shift in style we lost fans"

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“Kirk Hammett gave me one of his Greenies. I’ve been having fun with that”: Alex Lifeson is taking a Metallica signature guitar on the road with him for Rush’s reunion

The gift from Kirk Hammett is about to make prog history

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“It pissed Neil Peart off. He went back to his room and went, ‘F**k, f**k, f**k – I can’t say no to that guy!’” The one and only reason Rush’s R40 tour actually happened

The drummer had already decided to retire. But a wounded Alex Lifeson brought the only argument that made the classic line-up’s 2015 final road trip a reality

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"All I want at the end of the day is for us to be Rush and to be amazing." Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are preparing to tour again - and the only goal is to be great

In our exclusive interview, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson explain how and why the Fifty Something tour came to be

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“It was nothing to do with me! It was the other guys!” Rush’s Alex Lifeson still denies involvement in 1969 firing of Geddy Lee

Vocalist and bassist claims he’s not over his dismissal all those decades ago – and recalls it’s not the only time the guitarist helped him leave a band

Guitar World

“Many drummers reached out to me in the aftermath of Neil’s passing. That was most distasteful to me”: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the drummers that tried to force a Rush reunion on them

The band was still in mourning when they started getting offers to replace Neil Peart

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“It was the record that changed our lives. The record that won us freedom of creative expression”: Rush frontman Geddy Lee recalls how the band's 1976 prog classic 2112 transformed their fortunes

No one at the record company was happy to hear that Rush had another concept record. But this time the prog trio stuck the landing on a sci-fi epic that changed everything

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"I'm going to be a bit sad when we hit the stage and I'm facing the audience and not facing her because I’m having so much fun playing along with her." Geddy Lee reveals what it's like working with new Rush drummer Anika Nilles

Rush are preparing 38 songs for their Fifty Something tour, which begins next month

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"Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we'd write another it was like: 'Oh my god!'" The inside story of Master Of Puppets and the two-year whirlwind that took Metallica to the big time

From an El Cerrito garage to stadiums with Ozzy Osbourne – as told by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and more

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“Woodstock ’94 was overwhelming… I was in awe at how many famous people were in one place”: From touring with Aerosmith and Metallica, to filling Geddy Lee’s shoes, they were the ’90s Seattle band that did it all –without taking the grunge tag

Candlebox guitarist Peter Klett owns up to having a big ego in the early days, recalls hitting the road with Rush, and the magical demo session for Far Behind

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"Like Blondie with Teeth." Shakin' Street mix high-energy rock with post-punk pop sensibility on album starring Ross The Boss and Fabienne Shine

What Ross The Boss did after the Dictators but before Manowar

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"It wasn't quite working with the three of us. We were thinking that maybe we should continue with someone else." Alex Lifeson says he initially had doubts about new Rush drummer Anika Nilles

Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Anika Nilles are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock

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"We talked a lot about Neil – about his view on music and drumming." New Rush drummer Anika Nilles looks back on her first rehearsal with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Anika Nilles, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock

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