Rock group rush biography

ByBrian Boone

A rock band needs exactly three things to make it in this world: monster guitar riffs, a lead singer who can wail, and a drummer who mercilessly pounds away.

The Canadian power trio who made up Rush easily checked all of those boxes. Over the span of nearly 50 years, Rush inspired one of the most devoted and vigilant fanbases in music, selling tens of millions of copies of its enveloping, '70s and '80s classics like Permanent Waves, 2112, and Hemispheres. Rush's music can be dense and experimental progressive rock — many of its songs are about philosophy or sci-fi worlds — but it can also be more traditional, as evidenced by how no classic rock station in the world goes very long without playing "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," "Fly by Night," or "Freewill."

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Rush's songs speak to the mind and the heart, the aim of most legit musicians.

The band also sings from a place of empathy,