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RUSH 1973-1982 ON TRACK

EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG

Richard James

ISBN 978-1-78952-338-6

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Publication: 27 SEPTEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523386
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 144 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789521894 Joe Jackson On Track

• A band with a massive and fanatical following
worldwide. No longer active following Neil Peart’s
death in 2020
• The period when the band had its greatest
commercial success in the UK. ‘Spirit Of Radio’
was even a hit single! Beloved of both progressive
rock and hard rock communities
• Three top 10 albums in this period: Permanent
Waves, Signals and their masterpiece Moving
Pictures

Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ Rush. In their own words, ‘The World’s Biggest Cult Band’, started
from humble beginnings: three suburban teenagers. Alex Lifeson,
Richard James immersed himself in music as soon as he got his Geddy Lee, and John Rutsey formed a Led Zeppelin-influenced
first real six-string at the age of ten. Previously chained to a desk for trio, eventually scratching a living playing the bars and clubs of
a living, he broke free, armed with a music degree from the Open their native Toronto. A hard work ethic, no small amount of talent,
University and a Licentiate Diploma in Classical Guitar from the and a slice of good fortune enabled their first, self-financed and
distributed album to gain a foothold in the American market.
Royal School of Music, and proceeded to roam the East Midlands as
a freelance guitarist and music teacher. He lives with his wife in And then, on the eve of their first American tour, drummer
Leicestershire, UK, and when not involved with music, he enjoys Rutsey quit. Fortune smiled on them again when auditions for a
foreign travel and playing chess badly. replacement shed builder produced Neil Peart, who could not
only drum like a demon but was adept at lyric writing. Sharing a
love of the then emerging progressive rock scene, the trio
embarked on crafting a series of albums from the ‘second’ debut,
Fly By Night, to the career-defining and best-selling masterpiece
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP Moving Pictures; records which would secure them a permanent
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Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. This book reviews all these albums up to Signals, their 1982
Email: orders@combook.co.uk release, which saw the band embracing keyboard technology and
Phone: 01892 837171 severing their connections with long-time producer Terry Brown,
the unofficial fourth member of the trio.
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without notice. 10/04/2024