Rush: Rush; Neil Merryweather: Space Rangers
Jim Esposito, Creem, February 1975
FIRST THERE WAS English Rock 'n' Roll! Then there was Southern Blues! Now, from Mercury Records, those swell folks who brought you Bachman-Turner Overdrive, we have Canadian Heavy Metal.
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