RUSH
An Oral History, Uncensored
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Publisher Description
Few bands have dominated the music industry like RUSH: 20 studio albums, eight live discs, more than 43 million records sold. Creative, prolific and fiercely independent, RUSH ranks third for most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band, behind only The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. On April 18th, they will finally be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Star journalist Vinay Menon conducted separate and lengthy interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart. Granted full access, he also interviewed more than two dozen family members, friends, managers, agents and colleagues. From these interviews, the band’s history was stitched together. What happened off stage? How did the band cope with the early trappings of fame? How did they nearly throw it all away? How did the need to innovate, to explore new musical terrain, cause tension in the studio? What happened after unimaginable tragedy nearly caused them to disband?
In the words of those who were there, RUSH: An Oral History covers the flashpoints from the past four decades.
Star Dispatches is a weekly series of quality journalism in ebook form from the newsroom of the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper.
Customer Reviews
Brief but absolutely excellent
Vinay Menon hits all the points any rush fan will want to read about. Although it’s not a large book, it’s packed with a lot of great inside info from all the folks that managed/lived/worked along side the band... as well as the Geddy, Alex and Neil of course :)
Hugely enjoyable! Very glad to have bought this :)
A good overview
The story covers much of the same ground as the documentary, Beyond The Lighted Stage. Lots of good anecdotes and revealing information.
A few glaring gaps though. A Farewell to Kings, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures are completely overlooked. So too are Grace Under Pressure and most of their later albums and years.
What I really liked was the credit given to Vapor Trails. This is such a powerful record and to see it given the credit it deserves is fantastic, since it was obviously such an emotionally difficult album for Rush to make.
Read this, see the documentary and you are set.
Rush
Excellent Read - highly recommended!