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Jonathan Horsley

“Electronic gear was expanding. The Fairlight was being used all over the place. All those things were going on and we wanted some of that”: Rush legend Geddy Lee on the making of the band’s groundbreaking ‘80s classic

Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee work that '80s style as they perform live with Rush in 1984.

Everywhere you looked there was bad news, tumult and tragedy. It was late summer, 1983, and the world thrummed with anxiety.

Rush had decamped to a lodge in the Horseshoe Valley, an easy 90-minute drive north from Toronto, where the peace and quiet of an off-season ski resort would give them some time and space to put some songs together. The outside world arrived by post.

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