Mary Burris is a passionate lover of music. We’re very excited to share her informative and fun posts about music on Midlife Boulevard. To read more from Mary, check out her blog, Jingle Jangle Jungle.
RUSH
Starting out as a bar band in 1968 in Willowdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and then drummer John Rutsey were perhaps the hardest working unsigned act of the day. Refusing to conform and play top 40 material, they were determined to play what they wanted to play, and on their own terms.
In 1974, after the release of their self-titled debut, Neil Peart took over for John Rutsey and soon proved to be not only an amazing drummer, but also an excellent lyricist. His often epic compositions fit perfectly with the band’s playing.

While they have not had many radio hits, few hard rock fans have not heard of the band’s bigger hits like “Working Man”, “The Spirit of Radio”, “Limelight” and of course the enigmatic “Tom Sawyer”, which catapulted the band into the limelight in 1981.

Rush’s last-but-one album was released on May 1st, 2007, Snakes & Arrows. Its first single was “Far Cry”. The single aired on radios and released on the internet on March 12th. The trio began touring to support the album on an international schedule on June 13, 2007.
Rush released two new songs (“Caravan” and “BU2B”) on June 1, 2010. In the digital booklet provided on iTunes, they are said to be parts One and Two of “Clockwork Angels”, a work in progress.
In 2012 Rush finally released album “Clockwork Angels” and on 7th of September started 1st part of their Clockwork Angels Tour (official dates : September 7 – December 2 2012; May 22, 2013 – June 10, 2013) (Bio courtesy of http://www.last.fm)
MB
Friday 20th of March 2015
I've been a fan since early MTV introduced them to me (RIP music videos), and my best friend in high school a few years later ransacked her older brother's record collection (without permission) to lend their records to me. Good times! Thanks for writing about them!