Gene Simmons and Kiss had taken Rush under their wing, and they'd lost one drummer only to gain another who, as Geddy remembers, "knew a lot of fancy words". Lee's been batting away break-up rumours all afternoon when Prog sits down with him to talk about a time within Rush when it wasn't their fans or the media who thought they were calling it day, but the band themselves - though not by choice.Ä«etween March 1974 and April 1976, Rush had released four studio albums and in doing so had careered between bluesy bar band and theatre headliners, at least in some parts of Canada and the US. He's here to talk about the band's latest, and possibly last, concert DVD, Rush: R40 Live, amid rumours of his band's demise and on the day when drummer Neil Peart appears to have dropped a bombshell via an essay for Drumhead magazine that suggests he's finally retired from the band. We just figured it was going to be our last hurrah, the one last time Rush got to make an album." Geddy Lee is sitting in the Milestone Hotel overlooking the swish Kensington Court in West London. ![]() "I think it's fair to say we didn't I feel defiant doing it. Lee, Lifeson and Peart talk about 2112, as the classic album turns 40. ![]() The album that turned Rush into prog superstars - but which could have destroyed the band. Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart talks us through the creation of 2112, ![]() By Philip Wilding, Dave Everley, Geddy Lee
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