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“Isn’t it the best when you get into a band and they happen to have so much material to discover?” Yes’ Jon Davison fell in love with the Moody Blues by falling in love with John Lodge’s daughter

Singer has a soft spot for Tom Waits' melancholy first album and tree-hugger activities - and he’s in a band with his prog hero

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NAMM 2024: Alex Lifeson unites with Godin to channel and evolve his Hentor Sportcaster with the new signature Limelight guitar – “It was not quite enough for me to just develop a reissue of that very special instrument"

“This was an opportunity to showcase 40 years of evolution within that solid platform," says the Rush guitar legend

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NAMM 2024: “It’s not just a reissue of that very special instrument. This was an opportunity to showcase 40 years of evolution”: Alex Lifeson partners with Godin for the LERXST Limelight – a new take on his legendary Hentor Sportcaster

The Rush icon has teamed-up with another forward-thinking Canadian export for his new S-style signature guitar

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"All those times we shared when it was the three of us, you can't get that back": Rush's Geddy Lee looks back on his effin' life

To mark the publication of his autobiography My Effin' Life, Geddy Lee talks about the events and people who've shaped his life as a person and musician

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“I don't know if I can play like I played back then”: Alex Lifeson discusses how arthritis is affecting his playing – and why returning to the road might not be wise

The Rush legend is taking “very, very effective” treatments to deal with his arthritis, but concedes his joint issue is “slowly getting worse”

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Masks are back in Chicago-area health care settings

Some Chicago-area health care systems are again requiring visitors to mask up to help mitigate recent spreading of respiratory viruses, mainly influenza, COVID-19 and RSV. Rush is the latest to bring back masks.

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Stuart Levin, renowned Rush doctor and educator, dies at 88.

Mr. Levin held various roles over five decades at Rush and was known as one of Chicago’s best diagnosticians. He was a mentor for generations, his colleagues said.

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Geddy Lee releases two previously unheard solo tracks

Gone and I Am…You Are both come from the sessions that resulted in Geddy Lee's debut solo album My Favorite Headache

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Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson have talked about recruiting one of the world's great drummers to tour as Rush again

Geddy Lee drops strongest hint yet that he and Alex Lifeson could get Rush back on the road with a stand-in for Neil Peart

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The least popular songs by 10 legendary rock bands

We’ve combed Spotify to find out the least popular songs by Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC and more

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Alex Lifeson reveals signature LERXST amp line with MojoTone ahead of writing sessions with Geddy Lee

LERXST amplifiers could be just the start – guitars, pickups and pedals might be coming next

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“There has been an explosion of guitar music in the past 5 years… LERXST amplifiers provide a platform for these players”: Alex Lifeson unveils LERXST amp range in collaboration with Mojotone – and there are new guitars, pedals and pickups to come

The Rush guitar icon’s previously limited-edition Omega amp build is now available to all, alongside a new Chi head and combo – with more to come…

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Rush's Geddy Lee scores top five placing on the Sunday Times Bestseller List with My Effin' Life memoir

Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee joins Britney Spears, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly and late Friends star Matthew Perry at the summit of the UK's best-selling books chart

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"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic

Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion

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32 Celebrities That Have Been Friends Since Before They Were Famous

Years and years of friendship!

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"There was so much emotional static and fear and paranoia": Geddy Lee on the Rush album that was the most difficult to make

Even for one of the most accomplished bands in rock history, making records isn't always easy

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“His playing speaks to my soul like no other guitarist”: Alex Lifeson joins Adam Jones onstage to help Tool perform Jambi – before gifting his hero one of his signature Epiphone Les Pauls

Having previously spoken about his affection for Jones' guitar playing, Lifeson joined Tool onstage to tackle the rhythmic riff rollercoaster – with some added Rush flair for good measure

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Watch Alex Lifeson join Tool on stage in Toronto

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson jams with US prog metallers Tool on A Passage To Bangkok and Jambi

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"I said, 'I'm glad the music meant something to you,' and she burst into tears!": On the road with Rush's Geddy Lee

In 2019 Classic Rock accompanied Geddy Lee on the road as he promoted Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass

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"His playing is inspirational and speaks to my soul like no other guitarist" – Alex Lifeson guests with Tool in Toronto

The Rush man took on the rhythmically relentless Jambi and gifted Adam Jones one of his signature Epiphone Les Pauls too

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"We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112

Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee has no time for the suggestion that his band were promoting far right beliefs on 2112

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"He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour

Beatle Sir Paul offered his boozy wisdom to Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

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Geddy Lee names the Rush album that he hopes to see turned into a film

"Neil always wanted to bring the story to the screen in some way"

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“I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure

Lee and bandmate Alex Lifeson played Rush classics with Dave Grohl, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith and Danny Carey

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"As the tour wound down, the mood started to change and it split into two camps... we were quite divided by the end": Geddy Lee recalls the internal tensions on Rush's final tour, R40

Rush's R40 tour represented a victory lap for the much-loved Canadian prog-rock heroes, but for the three musicians it was a bitter-sweet experience, Geddy Lee admits

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