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"I said, 'I'm glad the music meant something to you,' and she burst into tears!": On the road with Rush's Geddy Lee
By Philip Wilding published
In 2019 Classic Rock accompanied Geddy Lee on the road as he promoted Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass

"We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112
By Paul Brannigan published
Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee has no time for the suggestion that his band were promoting far right beliefs on 2112

"He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour
By Fraser Lewry published
Beatle Sir Paul offered his boozy wisdom to Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

"Someone said that I sounded like the damned howling in Hades": Geddy Lee on why Rush shunned their record label and management's wishes that they'd become the next Led Zeppelin or Bad Company
By Paul Brannigan published
Rush "always agreed that the very idea of compromise was offensive" says Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee names the Rush album that he hopes to see turned into a film
By Paul Brannigan published
"Neil always wanted to bring the story to the screen in some way"

“I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure
By Niall Doherty published
Lee and bandmate Alex Lifeson played Rush classics with Dave Grohl, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith and Danny Carey

"As the tour wound down, the mood started to change and it split into two camps... we were quite divided by the end": Geddy Lee recalls the internal tensions on Rush's final tour, R40
By Paul Brannigan published
Rush's R40 tour represented a victory lap for the much-loved Canadian prog-rock heroes, but for the three musicians it was a bitter-sweet experience, Geddy Lee admits

"I can still remember the three of us sitting there on the bed in utter awe": Geddy Lee recalls the day that Rush listened to Led Zeppelin for the first time
By Paul Brannigan published
Hearing Led Zeppelin's debut album changed everything for Rush: "This was our new paradigm" Geddy Lee recalls

”Jethro Tull influenced me a lot in the later years of Rush - that attitude of taking your music seriously but not taking yourself seriously”: Geddy Lee’s prog stars
By Paul Elliott published
He believes Clockwork Angels is the best record he’s made… but can’t decide which of two is the worst
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