Rush Song Of The Day: Between The Wheels

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Hawkwind's Dave Brock on a "great prog number" from the 80s...

Rush, who recently released the R40 box set, grace the cover of the latest issue of Prog and in that issue we called upon 40 famous Rush fans to reveal their favourite Rush songs.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be bringing you some of those choices. Today it’s the choice of Hawkwind’s long serving leader Dave Brock, who threw us a slight curveball by opting for the excellent Between The Wheels from the 1984 album Grace Under Pressure.

“I’d go for Between The Wheels from Grace Under Pressure,” he states. “It has a powerful synth- bass presence, and some fantastic lead guitar playing from Alex Lifeson. This is a good, heavy piece of music, with interesting lyrics. Overall, a great prog rock number, from one of their best albums. Hawkwind toured with Rush in the States during the 70s – jolly fun was had by all of us.”/o:p

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Jerry Ewing
Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.