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The band returned to the studio and released a new album, Vapor Trails, in 2002. The layoff was brought on by personal tragedies in Peart’s life. After touring to support the latter album, Rush began what amounted to a five-year hiatus in 1997. The transition from synthesizer to guitar continued with 1993’s Counterparts and 1996’s Test for Echo. With the 1989 album Presto, Rush once again began emphasizing guitar instead of keyboards.

Even so, its albums continued to go gold or platinum. Through the rest of the Eighties, the band kept a somewhat lower profile, not spending as much time on the road. In addition, the album included Rush’s only Top 40 hit single in the U.S., “ New World Man.” The album also expanded the band’s use of ska, reggae and funk. Synthesizers were now at the forefront of the group’s music. With the release of Signals in 1982, Rush’s sound underwent yet another change. That album reached Number Three and sold more than four million copies. The following year Rush released Moving Pictures. Permanent Waves reached the Top Five in the U.S. The songs were shorter, and the group’s influences now included reggae and New Wave. The album marked something of a change in the group’s sound. Rush’s popularity continued to soar, and in 1980, with the release of Permanent Waves, the group became one of the most successful bands in the world. “They made us want to make our music more interesting and more complex, and we tried to blend that with our own personalities to see what we could come up with that was indisputably us.”

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“ As our tastes got more obscure, we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands,” said Lee. The music on those two albums ventured more in the direction of progressive rock. Rush then re-located to the U.K., where the band recorded its next two albums, 1977’s A Farewell to Kings and 1978’s Hemispheres, at Rockfield Studios in Wales. The group recorded the shows and released its first live album, All the World’s a Stage, in 1976. The tour culminated with a three-night stand at Massey Hall in Toronto. It went platinum in Canada, and Rush hit the road, touring the U.S. The album featured a 20-minute title track divided into seven sections. The group’s big breakthrough came the following year with the release of the album 2112. The following year, Rush released two albums, Fly by Night and Caress of Steel. The album was then picked up by Mercury Records in the U.S., and sales began to skyrocket. The album wasn’t faring too well until a Cleveland radio station, WMMS (100.7 FM), added the song “ Working Man” to its playlist. The group released its first album, Rush, in 1974.

The group played around on the Toronto scene for a few years and then, in 1973, released its first single, a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” The record didn’t do well, and the band decided to form its own label, Moon Records. That lineup Lee on vocals, bass and keyboards Lifeson on guitar, and Peart on drums - has remained stable throughout the years. Jones was soon replaced by Geddy Lee, and, in 1974, after the release of the group’s debut album, Rutsey left and was replaced by Neil Peart (pronounced /ˈpɪərt/). The original lineup included Alex Lifeson on guitar, Jeff Jones on bass and John Rutsey on drums. Rush was formed in August 1968 in the Willowdale neighborhood of Toronto. Absolutely uncompromising in every conceivable way, the trio has spent the last 40 years cultivating the largest cult fan base in rock while still managing to sell out arenas around the globe. Their 1976 magnum opus 2112 represents progressive rock at its grandiose heights, but just a half decade later they had the guts to put epic songs aside in favor of shorter (but no less dynamic) tunes like “ Tom Sawyer and “ The Spirit of Radio” that remain in constant rotation on radio to this day. Equal parts Led Zeppelin, Cream and King Crimson, Rush burst out of Canada in the early 1970s with one of the most powerful and bombastic sounds of the decade.

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