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"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
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
"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
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
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
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
He believes Clockwork Angels is the best record he’s made… but can’t decide which of two is the worst
Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson
Having previously ruled out continuing without late drummer Neil Peart, Rush appear to be softening to the idea
18 of the darkest, most terrifying prog rock songs ever made
Have a very proggy Halloween with our playlist of dark, morbid proggy delights...
“Our ideas were more solid than our ability to play them! We had to raise our game”: The lessons Rush learned from Hemispheres
Often cited as the album that nearly broke them for good, Geddy Lee maintains the 1978 release found the trio too full of ideas to contemplate taking a rest
“That level of success was like nothing we had ever experienced before. It was such a huge record for us”: how Rush’s prog classic Moving Pictures marked their great reinvention
With Moving Pictures, Rush ditched side-long sci-fi epics for songs about fast cars and fame – and kicked their career to a whole new level
