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Rush: Breaking Into America… Canada's Answer To The New York Dolls?
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, November 1975
DETROIT'S MICHIGAN PALACE was full to the brim. Though the rock 'n' roll style of the early '70s has faded into a rebirth of hippiedom ...
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Rush: Is Everybody Feelin' all RIGHT? (Geddit...?)
Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 4 March 1978
The gist of this being that H.M. tourist RUSH are all RIGHT-er than most, as MILES discovers ...
Retrospective by Chris Welch, The History of Rock, 1984
NEIL PEART is one of rock’s show drummers, whose uncompromising personality matches his single-minded dedication to music. As one-third of Canada’s Rush, Neil made a ...
Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, 27 April 1976
"Music Will Not Exist In 2112" ...
Rory Gallagher, Rush, If: Beacon Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Dave Marsh, Newsday, 6 November 1974
Rock in a gilded cage ...
Interview by Deborah Frost, Circus, 14 February 1977
A SUBTERRANEAN VOICE growls across the phone wires, hesitates, and growls again – this time more softly. Canadian telephone service might be different, but it's ...
Rush: The Sword and Sorcery Phase
Retrospective and Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, October 2004
Rush had their first taste of success in 1975, when they changed from being a basic hard rock power outfit and became something altogether more ...
Interview by Geoff Barton, Kerrang!, 3 May 1984
RUSH guitarist ALEX LIFESON has the good grace to talk to GEOFF BARTON ...
Profile and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 21 November 1981
Geoff Barton writes his first Rush feature for (count'em) three years and asks, is there life after Maple Leaf Mayhem? ...
Rush: A Farewell To Kings (Mercury SRM-1-1184 ) *****
Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 10 September 1977
Rush: lords of the Kings ...
Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 30 September 1978
He's also lead guitarist for RUSH and writes songs about the politics of oak trees, shapeless spirits and The Real Truth. Psychiatric care by Geoff Barton. ...
Black Holes: Close encounters with Rush
Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 25 February 1978
CONGRESS THEATRE, Washington DC. A scientific debate is in progress: ...
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 9 December 1978
Systems of resonance ...
Rush didn't chase fame, hits or groupies — yet there will never be a better rock band
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2020
SUCH WAS the secret appeal of Rush that in the summer of 2008 the band's three members were invited onto American television for only the ...
Rush: But Why Are They In Such A Hurry?
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, June 1981
THURSDAY: KORDOSH has been roused from his afternoon nap by Sherry Ring, publicist for Mercury Records. Ring is calling from New York to firm up connections ...
Rush: Screwing Up Pop — On Purpose
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, April 1990
RUSH MAY BE the only band on earth to have made "fear of boredom" a primary musical motivation. Needless to say, they don't put it ...
Rush: Rush; Neil Merryweather: Space Rangers
Review by 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 ...
Review by Joe Nick Patoski, Creem, February 1979
Ride, Mush You Rushkies ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, March 1975
A WRITER SHOULD never admit as much, but I'm still not entirely confident that mere words can communicate the full extent to which I abhor ...
Rush: Permanent Waves (Mercury)
Review by John Swenson, Creem, April 1980
IN THE PAST Rush has been an easy target for trigger-happy critics looking for something so colossally bad it could absorb a double load of ...
Lifeson Arrives Stage Center With Rush
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Circus, 31 March 1982
ALEX LIFESON, the lanky blond guitarist whose playing is the cornerstone of Rush's live sound, is relaxing in his midtown Manhattan hotel room after a ...
Rush: Staples Center, Los Angeles
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 2002
SOME MIGHT ARGUE that change is the sine qua non of musical artistry, but Rush fans might contend that predictable output yields greater rewards. ...
Rush: A Show of Hands (Mercury) *½
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 20 April 1989
ALTHOUGH THEIR fans treat the three members of Rush as if they were the Holy Trinity, the band chose the theme of another threesome — ...
In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush's Geddy Lee
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 23 November 1985
What do you do when you're late for the bus? RUSH, that's what. NEIL PERRY did it, like a tortoise. And DOUGLAS CAPE followed, like ...
Retrospective and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 30 September 1991
GEDDY LEE visibly tenses up when he talks about the period when fans drove him and his family out of their east-end Toronto home. ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 21 November 1987
RUSH certainly don't live up to their name because it's taken the group 13 years to make their best album to date. Guitarist ALEX LIFESON counts the ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 18 April 1992
Oh, won't you please welcome Canadian legends RUSH — back in the UK for the sold-out Roll The Bones tour. After nearly 20 years together, ...
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 24 June 1978
Power, Pomp, Purity, Pretention, Popularity... The RUSH Problem ...
Report by Paul Morley, Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 11 June 1977
This band has fans. Lots of them. They sold out the Free Trade Hall and surprised even the promoter. PAUL MORLEY asks why, PAUL RAMBALI ...
Report and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 18 December 1982
PETE MAKOWSKI finally delivers the goods on RUSH ...
Live Review by Rick O'Shea, Pop Star Weekly, 5 May 1979
A BRUSH WITH RUSH ...
Rush: The Moustache That Conquered The World
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 5 April 1980
SOMEWHERE in America in that black hole known as the Midwest, little bands are slogging their balls off to become big bands, and big bands ...
Live Review by The Legend!, New Musical Express, 14 May 1988
RUSH ARE the present-day equivalent of Woking's own, the Jam. Sounds 'Readers' Poll Winners 1979, the very same year that our fave floppy-fringed trio walked ...
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