Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: 5 - The Real Truth

"We had turned into grotesque prog creatures": How Rush reinvented themselves

After the "soul-crushing" slog of Hemispheres, Permanent Waves returned Rush to the peak of their powers and put them in a different league

Louder

“I need to play. Once a week I go to Ged’s – it’s in the calendar”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are recording their regular jam sessions – but remain tight-lipped about what they’re using them for

The Rush legends discuss revisiting the band's repertoire – and even coming up with brand-new jams – during these sessions

Guitar World

Rush regret final tour not being longer

The surviving members of Rush have expressed their regret that they never made it to Europe with their final tour.

BANG Premier

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

"Neil would do a full hour of unrelenting drumming before he went on stage to play for another three": A personal tribute to Neil Peart

A personal look back at the music, life and times of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer/lyricist and cornerstone who died on January 7, 2020

Louder

"I really felt like I let our British and European fans down": Geddy Lee gives fans "a straight answer" about the end of Rush

Exclusive: Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock, out now

Louder

"Each time I'm about to play it, I take a deep breath and I exhale on that first note": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by… Rush

Songs in the key of Lifeson

MusicRadar

"I looked at my bandmates and missed them already and I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song played together": Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee recall Rush's final live moments

Prog trio's surviving members look back at the band's 50-year career

MusicRadar

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“A lot of guitar players switch to bass, but I feel like I was born a bass player – it’s in my bones”: Weezer’s Scott Shriner shares his bass tone secrets

For Scott Shriner, letting loose and taking risks – including singing and playing floor pedals – is all part of the journey

Guitar World

“Sometimes you have to take the piss out of the nerdiness in yourself!” How Geddy Lee geeked up for his Big Beautiful Book of Bass

Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the expense by writing a 600-page book (of which 408 were published)

Louder

“If you’re going to stay friends, you have to say something if someone’s out of line. We’ve kept egos in check all the way because of that.” How Rush’s Clockwork Angels became the prog icons’ perfect swansong

In 2012, Rush released their nineteenth and final studio album Clockwork Angels – and last words don’t come any better

Louder

“I don’t think we knew what the hell was going on. We were just happy that we were still around after 2112”: The history of Rush’s live albums, by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

From All The World’s A Stage to Rush In Rio, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back over Rush’s journey as a live band

Louder

“Making that record was like pulling teeth!” Rock legends Rush remember the album that drove them half-mad

It wasn’t easy being the high priests of conceptual rock

MusicRadar

“Neil had a look on his face like he was going to explode. He was a little pissed off”: How the rejuvenated Rush hit full stride during their final chapter with Snakes & Arrows

Rush’s 2007 album Snakes & Arrows found the prog icons back from their late 90s hiatus with a vengeance

Louder

“They had the uncanny ability to make odd meter into a catchy, radio-friendly experience”: Hawkind, Dream Theater, Styx, Def Leppard, Manic Street Preachers, Napalm Death members and others name their favourite Rush songs

Steven Wilson, Arjen Lucassen, Steve Rothery and more famous fans pick their top tracks – with some surprising results

Louder

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

"I've mastered what I was aiming for thirty years ago": Neil Peart - The Clockwork Angels interview

In 2012 Rush's drummer Neil Peart told us about modern alchemy, thinking big, how Nirvana influenced Rush, and why he'd never watch Beyond The Lighted Stage

Louder

"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

Metal Hammer

“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

Metal Hammer

“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”

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“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

Louder

"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

Louder

"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

Guitar World

“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

Louder

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

MusicRadar

"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

MusicRadar

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"

1 … 4 5 6 7

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Manic Street Preachers

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.