Rush has been awarded a Juno Award (Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Award) on many occasions. In addition, Lee, Lifeson, & Peart come tons Officers of the Order of Canada.

History

When period has passed, Rush's musical genre has changed substantially. Their debut album is somewhat derivative of the British rock band Led Zeppelin, but on top a number 1 pack albums their style progressed eclectically, influenced per British progressive rock movement in particular, however maintaining the tough rock ethos at its core.

1968 - 1976

A original lineup of Rush formed around September 1968, consisting of Jeff Jones (bass & lead vocals), John Rutsey (drums & backing Vocals) and Alex Zivojinovich, better known by his stagename Alex Lifeson (guitars and backing vocals). Rutsey's older brother suggested a title Rush. Inside September 1968, Jones was replaced by Lifeson's friend Gary Lee Weinrib, world health organization adopted a stage title of Geddy Lee. Fallowing a total of personnel changes within the intervening years, Lee, Lifeson, & Rutsey reunited when Rush & freed their number 1 album in 1974, the self-titled Rush. Highly derivative of Led Zeppelin, Rush got limited local popularity until the original release, distributed by Moon Records, was picked higher by a Cleveland radio station. This popularity led a album to exist as redistributed by Mercury Records, Rush's record label until 1987.

the equivalent month, drummer John Rutsey resigned due to health concerns & a antipathy for touring. Rush held auditions for the replacement drummer prior to eventually finding Neil Peart, who led Rush to a further progressive ethos across the course of the next pack albums, Fly by Night, Caress of Steel, and 2112. A lyrics of that instance were heavy influenced by authoritative poetry & literature, science fiction &, in two or three subjects, a writings and philosophy of Ayn Rand, as exhibited virtually all conspicuously by their 1975 song "Anthem" (named fallowing Rand's novella) and their 1976 album 2112.

1977 - 1981

Several of their early songs received limited airplay because of their extended length (inside a bit of shells exceeding tenner minutes); 1 notable exception was a Triad-microscopic "Closer To The Heart" from either their 1977 album A Farewell To Kings, which was played widely on American radio. As well from either A Farewell to Kings, "Xanadu" (one of the said Ten microscopic songs) became a most common fan favourite.

1978's Hemispheres would follow The Farewell to Kings' art rock style, including another a portion to the song "Cygnus X-1". When Rush would make two or three more multichapter songs on top a rest of their career, "Hemispheres" was their previous side-spanning heroic poem. Equally a recently decade approached, Rush step by step began to dispose of their old style font of music pro shorter, & every now and again easy (a bit of can say infertile) arrangemements.

1980's Permanent Waves changed Rush's style of music dramatically. Rush felt it experienced taken a long-form song format when far when it can or even treasured, & began to opt for shorter songs that however retained their trademark musicianship & complexness. Although the difficult rock style was however evident, further & further keyboards were introduced. Lyrical themes changed markedly, beginning to rely very much less in science-fiction mental imagery. More styles, like reggae and new wave, were starting to sneak into Rush songs throughout the early Eighties. Drawn-out songs did produce two or three final appearances therein period of time, in the form of "Jacob's Ladder", "Natural Science" & "The Camera Eye". It should exist as noted, even so, that numbers of of the band's songs would prove my point to clock around at 5 or even hexad proceedings, however good outside of mainstream music convention.

Possibly though a majority of their music was above a commin radio instance set boundaries, Rush began to receive frequent airtime on rock radio stations in the early Eighties, thanks to the release of a few of the shorter & popular songs. Following, Permanent Waves cracked Hoarding's Top 10 & went atomic number 78. 1 song particularly, "The Spirit of Radio" (known as for the Toronto-local groundbreaking radio station, CFNY), went on to get the vast hit on the guide circuit.

Rush's popularity hit its zenith sustaining a release of Moving Pictures in 1981. A lead track, "Tom Sawyer", is the band's better known song, & Geddy Lee hwhen referred to that as "the quintessential Rush song." Motion picture shot as much as #3 on the Billboard Album Chart & has been qualified quadruple pt per Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "Tom Sawyer" may be heard oftentimes in U.s. classic rock stations to this day.

1982 - 1991

From either that point in, their albums of the 1980s tended to incorporate more keyboards & stuck to the style that began by using Permanent Waves, such that their recordings in the afterwards 1980s and early 1990s are markedly different from their earliest operate. 1985's Power Windows and 1987's Hold Your Fire could be considered the peak of this chapter of Rush. Rush began to move out of their Eighties style using a albums Presto and Roll the Bones, but Neil Peart remained a key lyrist when Alex Lifeson & Geddy Lee composed a music.

1992 - Present

Fallowing a "synthesizer period" of 1982-1991, a b& largely dropped synthesizer-style keyboard sounds from either their studio recordings in favour the heavily, guitar dominated style, & adapted the left over keyboard sounds to further organic voices like strings and organ. This transition began by having a easily-received 1993 album Counterparts.

When 1996's Test for Echo, the band entered the hexad-season hiatus due principally to family tragedies inside Peart's life. Peart's daughter Selenthe died in a car accident in August 1997, followed by his wife Jacqueline's death from cancer in June 1998. Peart start the self-described "healing journey" by motorcycle in which he travelled thousands of kilometers across North America. He later on wrote just about his travels around his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Rush late said that it come super more or less disbanding when you took this time period.

A band returned inside 2002 with the amazingly heavily & modern sounding Vapor Trails album. A album contains a song "Ghost Rider", describing Peart's "self-healing" bike journey fallowing a tragical demise of his girl inside 1997 & his married woman around 1998. September 11th was also addressed in the song "Peaceable Kingdom." It debuted to moderate praise & was supported per band's number 1 tour around sextet years, including number one-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where it played to a select few of the big crowds of their career. Upon release, contestation immediately surrounded a impenetrable mixing of Vapor Trails, dividing fans. The remastering is planned for spring 2006.

the band was one of a total of hometown favourites to play the SARS relief concert (dubbed SARStock) at Downsview Park in Toronto in August 2003, with an attendance of all over half the million people. Besides around 2003, Alex Lifeson appeared in the highly successful American mockumentary Trailer Park Boys. Rush as well played for CBC's 2004 tsunami relief telethon, along with Ed Robertson (of the Barenaked Ladies) and Mike Smith (Bubbles) from Trailer Park Boys.

The live album, Rush in Rio, was released within late October 2003. A DVD which it accompanied won the 2004 Juno for best music DVD. June 2004 saw the release of Feedback, a studio EP featuring eight covers of such artists when Cream and The Who. Many songs, including "Summertime Blues," "Crossroads," & "The Seeker," were played in modern & classic rock radio stations through Northerly Usa, introducing Rush to occasionally freshly audiences. In a summertime of 2004, Rush over again hit a road for a super successful Thirtieth Day of remembrance Tour, swimming dates in a United States, Canada, the UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Czech Republic, & the Netherlands. The Frankfurt, Germany concert was recorded for DVD (coroneted R30), and is scheduled for release in November 22, 2005. Based on datthe from a Will 2005 locate by having Lee, a band plans to last back into the studio to record a freshly album beginning inside late 2005.

Although Rush has unremarkably been shunned by critics, a class action's fanbase remains hard throughout N & South United states of america. A class action played to crowds in the latter half of 2003 and 2004 that set portable records, adding fuel to the popular belief that Rush can be about for many years to came.

Every of the trine single creative person has produced & freed operate independent of the band's structure, to variable degrees of commercial message & critical profits. Look at Solo efforts of band members for more information.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Debate

A members of Rush use at times themselves noted that population "either love Rush or hate Rush", ensuant inside heavy depreciator & an intensely fast fan base. Despite with totally dropped away from a limelight for 5 years fallowing Line 2 text for Echo & a band existence relegated near only to classic rock stations in the U.S., Vapor Trails release shot as much as #6 on the Billboard Chart around its foremost week of release inside 2002. the subsequent Vapor Trails tour grossed on top $24 million & involved a big audience ever to look at a Rush indicate - 60,000 fans around São Paulo. A as a result season, a band freed Rush around Rio, which the RIAA has qualified gold, marking a 4th decade where a Rush album experienced been freed & qualified at least gold.

These are non surprising that Rush's fast fanbase was on a whole non proud of to study that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had passed over Rush for induction inside 1999 - Rush's number one season of eligibility. A band has non been nominated since, calling a Foundation's requirements for even even induction into question for a bit of, world health organization wonder what qualifies an creative person or b& for a Hall of Fame; would it be years of musical excellence & pioneering operate, high record sales and fan popularity, or the approval of music critics?

A second factor which a select few sense should become considered is that Rush has influenced unnumerable musicians & elastic, including Dream Theater, Living Colour, The Manic Street Preachers, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Primus.

Band Members

Geddy Lee - Bass, Vocals, Synthesizers (1968 - Present) Alex Lifeson - Guitar (1968 - Present) Neil Peart - Drums (1974 - Present) John Rutsey - Drums (1968 - 1973)

Discography

Official studio albums
Rush (March 1974) Fly by Night (February 1975) Caress of Steel (September 1975) 2112 (February 1976) A Farewell to Kings (September 1977) Hemispheres (October 1978) Permanent Waves (January 1980) Moving Pictures (January 1981) Signals (September 1982) Grace Under Pressure (April 1984) Power Windows (October 1985) Hold Your Fire (September 1987) Presto (November 1989) Roll the Bones (September 1991) Counterparts (October 1993) Test for Echo (September 1996) Vapor Trails (May 2002)

Other studio records
Not Fade Away (1973 - 7" single) Feedback (June 29, 2004) Closer to The Heart (1977 - single)

Official live albums
''All The World's a Stage (September 1976) Exit...Stage Left (October 1981) A Show of Hands (December 1988) Different Stages (November 1998) Rush in Rio (October 2003) R30: Live in Frankfurt (November 2005)

Official videos
Exit..Stage Left (VHS, Laserdisc) Grace Under Pressure Tour (VHS, Laserdisc) A Show of Hands (VHS, Laserdisc) Chronicles (VHS, DVD, Laserdisc) Rush in Rio (DVD) R30: Live in Frankfurt (DVD) November 2005

Compilations/interviews
Archives (April 1978) – Repackage of the first three albums (Rush, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel) Chronicles (September 1990) – Essentially a "Greatest Hits" release The Story of Kings - Interview (1992) – Interview with Alex Lifeson The Interviews - Vol 2 (October 1995) – Interview with Geddy Lee Retrospective I 1974-1980 (1997) – Repackaging of best songs from their first decade. Retrospective II 1981-1987 (1997) – Repackaging of best songs from their second decade. The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 (February 2003) – Repackaging of Mercury/Polygram-held songs up to Hold Your Fire (1987)

Solo efforts of band members
Burning for Buddy, Volume 1 (Buddy Rich tribute album) – (Solo), Peart, et al. (1994) Burning for Buddy, Volume 2 (Buddy Rich tribute album) – (Solo), Peart, et al. (1994/-5?) Victor – (Solo), Lifeson, et al. (1996) My Favorite Headache – (Solo), Lee, et al. (November 2000)

Books
Rush: Visions: The Official Biography – Banasiewicz, Bill. (1988), Omnibus Press – ISBN 0711911622 Rush: Success Under Pressure – Gett, Steve. (1984) – ISBN 0895242303 Rhythm & Light – Nuttall, Carrie, (2005), Rounder Books, ISBN 1579400930 Drum Techniques of Rush – Peart (1985) – ISBN 0769250556 More Drum Techniques of Rush – Peart, Wheeler (1989) – ISBN 0769250513 The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa – Peart (1999) – ISBN 1895900026 Ghost Rider (book)|Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road – Peart (2002) – ISBN 1550225464 (hardcover), ISBN 1550225480 (paperback) Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times – Peart (2004) – ISBN 1550226649 Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away – Popoff, Martin. Publisher: Ecw Press (June 28, 2004) – ISBN: 1550226789 Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush – Price, et al. (1999) – ISBN 1587151022 Rush Tribute: Merely Players – Telleria, Robert (2002) – ISBN 1550822713

Awards list
Rush has received many awards during their career.

Juno awards
Rush has been awarded the following Juno awards:

1974 Most promising group of the year 1977 Group of the year 1978 Group of the year 1991 Best Heavy Metal Album 1991 Best album cover - Presto 1992 Best Hard Rock Album 1992 Best album cover - Roll the Bones'' 2004 Music DVD of the year - "Rush inside Rio"

Grammys
1982 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance "YYZ" -- lost to The Police's "Behind Our Camel" 1992 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance "In which's Our Tool" -- lost to Eric Johnson's "Drop of Dover" 1995 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance "Leave That Tool Alone" -- lost to Pink Floyd's "Marooned" 2004 nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance "O Baterista" from Rush In Rio -- lost to Brian Wilson's "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow"

Magazine awards
Alex
1983 - "Right Rock Talent" - Guitar for the Practicing Musician 1984 - Best Rock Guitarist - Guitar Player Magazine 1991 - Inducted into the Guitar for the Practicing Musician Hall of Fame

Geddy
Bass Hall of Fame - Guitar Player Magazine 6 time winner: "Right Rock Bass" - Guitar Player Magazine 1993 - "Right Rock Bass Streaming video player" Bass Player readers' poll

Neil
From Modern Drummer magazine reader's polls:

Hall of Fame: 1983 Best Rock Drummer: 1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985 Best Multi-Percussionist: 1983,1984,1985,1986 Best Percussion Instrumentalist: 1982 Most Promising New Drummer: 1980 Best All Around: 1986 1986 Honor Roll: Rock Drummer, Multi-Percussion Best Recorded Performance: 1981: Moving Pictures 1982: Exit... Stage Left 1983: Signals 1985: Grace Under Pressure 1986: Power Windows 1988: Hold Your Fire 1989: A Show of Hands 1990: Presto 1992: Roll The Bones 1993: Counterparts

RIAA platinum certifications
Fly by Night 2112 - 3x ''All the World's A Stage A Farewell to Kings Hemispheres Archives Permanent Waves Moving Pictures - 4x Signals Power Windows Exit...Stage Left A Show of Hands A Show of Hands - (video) Chronicles - 2x Chronicles - (video) Roll the Bones Rush in Rio - (video) 4x

RIAA gold certifications
Rush Caress of Steel Hold Your Fire Exit...Stage Left - (video) Counterparts Test for Echo Different Stages Live Rush in Rio''