With widdly-woo guitars and albums about mythic priests, Rush became the biggest cult band in North America. Frontman Geddy Lee picks out his favourite songs from their back catalogue
It’s nice that the three members of Rush are still friends. Three and a half years after the prog band’s final show together, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart haven’t gone their separate ways. “Alex and I just flew down to see Neil two weeks ago and hung for a couple of days,” Lee says, surrounded by the detritus of high tea in one of London’s grand but discreet hotels. “The first couple of months [after they disbanded], we were emotionally hungover. We didn’t know where the future was going to take us so we didn’t talk a ton then. And then we started to communicate again.”
Without Rush to sing and play bass for, Lee has kept himself busy compiling a coffee table book – Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass – which sounds like one for a niche audience. Then again, that’s what people thought about Rush and they ended up filling arenas for 40 years and joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so who knows? The book goes to one side, though, as Lee surveys the career of the only prog band to have had a Hollywood bromance written around them.
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