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Birth Date/Group Start: 1968
RUSH
BIOGRAPHY
Though not widely recognized among rock critics with breaking any new ground, the Canadian power trio of bassist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart has experienced tremendous success since its formation, notching twenty-three consecutive gold and platinum records, the third-longest string behind the Beatles and the Stones (and tied with KISS) in popular-music history.
Formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1968, by Lee, Lifeson, and original drummer John Rutsey (who departed with an illness in 1973), Rush began as a cover outfit, playing material by such bands as Iron Butterfly and Cream. With the addition of drummer Peart in 1974, the band began experimenting with more adventurous, often epic-length song structures, and essentially became progressive rockers. All three members were adroit, even virtuosic musicians, and Peart also brought with him a flair for intelligent, mythological/fantasy-based lyrics. The trio went on to make inspired art rock, with a kind of King Crimson-meets-Led Zeppelin dynamic led by Lee's wailing, high-pitched vocals.
Rush first rose to prominence in 1976, when, after three undistinguished efforts, the trio released the futuristic concept album 2112, based on the Ayn Rand novel Anthem. ("Anthem" was also a song on the band's 1975 album Fly by Night, and became the name of their record label in Canada.) 2112--which followed the story of the main character's battle against and triumph over an impersonal, high-tech society--set Rush on a stylistic course that would remain a template for many of its later releases.
Despite their commercial success in the early 1980's, critics condemned the Rush sound for being too fanciful, too weighty, and humorless, but fans flocked to the band for its all-out instrumental dexterity, throttling hard rock, and flights of lyrical fantasy. The albums produced in the mid-1980's, which were less successful, bore the glossy influence of the synthesizer-based metal and new wave that had then taken hold of the music scene. Fortunately, by the time Presto was released in 1989, Rush had had a change of heart, returning to the more full-on rock sound that had characterized its best and most successful material. The band has followed that course through to the present.
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