Rush

Three musicians from Toronto built one of rock’s most devoted followings on sheer musicianship. Formed in 1968, Rush settled into its classic power trio in 1974 when drummer and lyricist Neil Peart joined Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. Over the next four decades the band moved from blues-based hard rock to sprawling progressive epics, a synthesizer-heavy 1980s and back to guitar-driven rock, ending its original run in 2015. Peart died in 2020, and in 2026 Lee and Lifeson returned to the road as Rush on the Fifty Something tour.

Studio Album Reviews

Across the River of Rock network we have reviewed fifteen of Rush’s nineteen studio albums:

• Rush (1974)
• Fly by Night and Caress of Steel (1975)
• 2112 (1976)
• A Farewell to Kings (1977)
• Hemispheres (1978)
• Permanent Waves (1980)
• Moving Pictures (1981)
• Signals (1982)
• Grace Under Pressure (1984)
• Presto (1989)
• Counterparts (1993)
• Test for Echo (1996)
• Snakes and Arrows (2007)
• Clockwork Angels (2012, at Modern Rock Review)

The Rush Story at Modern Rock Review

• The Rush Story (2011 multi-part profile at Modern Rock Review)
• Beginnings
• The Terry Brown Sound
• Rock n’ Roll Rebels
• The Universal Dream
• Losing It
• Presto! Rush Returns
• Workin’ Them Angels
• Rush Discography
• Ten Great Forgotten Rush Songs
• No One Gets to Heaven Without a Fight

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