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“I was sitting on the edge of my bed, at 2 o'clock in the morning, thinking if I made the right decision. Can I play? Am I good enough?” Alex Lifeson reveals his struggles leading up to the Rush reunion tour

After years of health issues, Lifeson wasn’t sure he could keep up with his own or the fans’ expectations of his playing

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“We were just looking at each other like, ‘Holy crap,' Like, he has turned back time”: Geddy Lee talks about the vocal prep he had to do for Rush’s 50 Something tour

Frontman had to take singing lessons to reach his full range

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"I believed we would not get back together. I thought Rush was a place Neil was not going to be able to go back to emotionally": How Rush survived the 1990s and early 2000s

Rush refound their rock spirit in the 1990s – only to be blindsided by personal tragedy

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Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival next month

Fans can expect "an exhilarating and poignant tribute to late Rush legend Neil Peart"

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“I haven't really listened to Rush music… I never stumbled into the catalogue”: Anika Nilles on her preparation for Rush’s 50 Something tour

Plus Geddy Lee describes a spooky experience meeting Neil Peart… as a bird

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Geddy Lee’s eerie bird encounter makes him wonder if it was late Rush bandmate Neil Peart

Geddy Lee says a strange moment involving a lone bird on the opening night of Rush’s Fifty Something tour left him wondering whether Neil Peart’s presence was with them.

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Geddy Lee tells of spooky Neil Peart-related bird encounter. "I'm not a guy who believes in all that mumbo jumbo. But it was a remarkable moment"

On the opening night of Rush's Fifty Something tour, Geddy Lee felt the presence of Neil Peart in the shape of a tiny visitor

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“He never rated himself as highly as everyone else did": New documentary in the pipeline about Rush’s Neil Peart

No One’s Disciple will be screened on Canadian TV in September

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“Alex Lifeson went off on loose-limbed benders, taking madcap detours and stretching out phrases just to see where they’d land”: Rush deliver the thrill of mastery at Madison Square Garden – live review

At the first show of their four-night stand in NYC, the new trinity of Lifeson, Lee, and Nilles delivered a tour de force of classics, deep cuts, and fearless musicianship

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"We were the early version of Spinal Tap, turning it to 11."Rush before Geddy Lee: meet the bass player who stepped aside

"As far as I remember, I was always there" - original Rush bassist Jeff Jones puts the story straight

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“Alex said, ‘I don’t want to play my double-neck – it’s too heavy.’ I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He lent me his white Gibson EDS-1275 for Stairway”: How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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Watch "Weird Al" Yankovic's guitarist singing Rush's Cygnus X-1 Book II in a bathroom in Missouri

Meet Payton Rose Velligan: She sings Rush in the bathroom

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“I’ve never been very confident as a player. I’ve always felt like I had to work hard, and maybe I didn’t appreciate that I have a natural talent for playing guitar”: Alex Lifeson’s 20 greatest guitar moments in Rush

From fever-dream epics to blistering solos, weird harmonizer effects and 12-string chime, here are Lerxst’s finest hours with the iconic Canadian prog trio

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“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

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"It was just magical. You're part of a magical event where this incredible band is getting back together." Aimee Mann reacts to performing with Rush in Los Angeles

Initially reluctant to perform, Aimee Mann didn't respond to Geddy Lee's invitation to Rush's reunion shows for a month

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“Alex and I looked at each other and went, ‘Wow, I think we have a drummer… Now what do we do?’” Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the inside story behind the Rush reunion

How Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee found drummer Anika Nilles and put together the biggest reunion tour in prog rock history

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“He was like an alien. He could talk about anything. That’s when we said, ‘Let’s make him do lyrics!’”: Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him

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All the songs Rush have never played live… yet

Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?

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“I think he’s the most underrated guitarist in rock history. People don’t realise how inventive he was”: Geddy Lee, Paul Gilbert and John Petrucci on the guitar genius of Rush legend Alex Lifeson

Lee explains how Lifeson made the Canadian prog trio greater than the sum of their parts

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“I was sitting there thinking, 'I have no idea how I'm learning that,' but somehow it's working because I learned those songs in a completely different way”: How Anika Nilles prepared for the Rush tour

She says she went down “the Rush rabbit hole”

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“She was a complete stranger. She was a bit intimidated at first because she’d heard of the band, but she wasn’t a Rush fan”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles’ rollercoaster audition for Rush's Fifty Something tour

Their five-day session with Nilles wasn’t an audition, but it took until the last day for their doubts over a Rush reunion tour to be destroyed

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Rush mix it up on night two of the Fifty Something tour - and play the whole of 2112

Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Anika Nilles and Loren Gold make more memories at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles

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The fumble and the fill: Two moments of genius from Anika Nilles' emotional first show with Rush

Rush have returned to the stage, and we're feeling it

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Rush play first show in 11 years, armed with double-neck guitars and deep cuts

The prog legends returned to the stage at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, and the setlist and gear on display are a sight to behold

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We have liftoff! Watch Rush return to the stage in Los Angeles - includes full setlist

After 3964 days, Rush are back

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