Rush’s Geddy Lee: ‘Punk bands made us seem like Beethoven by comparison’
As he publishes his memoir My Effin’ Life, the abundantly talented bass player and singer answers your questions on the end of the band, the prospect of new music – and Jack Black’s bum crack
October 2023
The reader interview
Post your questions for Rush frontman Geddy Lee
Ask anything of the prog rock star, who is publishing his memoir in November and doing a spoken word tour of the UK
January 2020
Neil Peart obituary
Drummer and songwriter with the Canadian rock band Rush regarded as one of the world’s greatest percussionists
Rush's Neil Peart: unassuming, thunderous drummer who became a music legend
The Rush drummer, who has died at 67, was worshipped by fans and beloved by friends
Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart dies at 67
The musician, seen as one of the best rock drummers in history, died of brain cancer in California
December 2018
My songbook
Geddy Lee on Rush's greatest songs: 'Even I can barely make sense of our concept albums'
With widdly-woo guitars and albums about mythic priests, Rush became the biggest cult band in North America. Frontman Geddy Lee picks out his favourite songs from their back catalogue
June 2018
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: songs about kings
A regal list this week includes songs from Richard Thompson, Gilbert and Sullivan, Boy George and the Proclaimers
January 2018
Rush: a band who sparked the teenage imagination like few others
Michael Hann
As they declare themselves retired, the prog rockers can look back on a majestic career that charted an affecting, unrockstarlike path into the heart of pop culture
This week’s reader has listened – and listened again – to your suggestions to produce a list including Cocteau Twins, Queen and Tom Petty
October 2016
Readers recommend
Readers recommend playlist: your songs about being scared
We asked for your nominations of songs that spoke of fear and being scared – a reader picks the best of the bunch, from the Doors to prog rockers Rush
December 2015
Music blog
Rush aren't dead! Neil Peart hasn't retired!
Fans of intricate hard rock were despairing when it seemed Rush’s drummer had thrown in the towel. But the band’s Geddy Lee says people got it wrong …
October 2015
Rush's Roll the Bones: watch footage from R40 Live concert film
The Canadian rock trio reveal their first offering from the forthcoming tour documentary
July 2015
Readers recommend
Readers recommend: songs from or about Canada - results
Going east to west via Gordon Lightfoot to Bruce Cockburn, Newfoundland to Vancouver, RR veteran Marconius takes a musical journey with songs from last week’s topic
May 2015
From Rock's Backpages
Rush: 'You have no freedom. You do what you’re told to do. By the socialists'
As Rush kick off their R40 Live 40th anniversary tour, let’s take a trip back to 4 March 1978, where Miles, writing for New Musical Express, questions the band’s supposed ‘proto-fascism’
May 2014
10 of the best
Rush: 10 of the best
A career-spanning selection from the great Canadian trio who were inspired by Ayn Rand, Coleridge and suburban alienation (with added drum solos)
December 2012
Rush: 2112 (Deluxe Edition) – review
Rush’s 20-minute concept suite about Ayn Rand is one of rock’s most unlikely triumphs – even if the rest of the album is rubbish, writes Michael Hann
July 2012
Rush: Clockwork Angels – review
Remarkably for what is the band’s 19th studio album, Clockwork Angels never sounds dated, writes Jamie Thomson
May 2011
Rush – review
Rush, the ‘high priests of conceptual metal’, are preposterously pretentious, but it’s done with a lot of fun and self-mockery, and the crowd love them, writes Dave Simpson
March 2011
Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated'
it’s nearly 30 years since Rush had a UK hit single. How, then, are they more popular – and, whisper it, cooler – than ever before? By Rob Fitzpatrick
July 2010
Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock
After its 1970s heyday, prog rock receded in on itself, but now a new wave of bands are embracing long, difficult songs and fantastical lyrics – and finding fans for it, too, writes Alexis Petridis
