Alex Lifeson has been a paid-up member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since 2013. He has sold over 40 million records over five decades with Rush. He’s been immortalised on South Park. And it’s not like he is a stranger to Best Guitarist of All Time lists.
And yet some people will tell you he is underrated. Rush’s bassist and frontman Geddy Lee is one of them. Joining MusicRadar in a London hotel ahead of Rush’s triumphant return to the stage on their Fifty Something Tour – a historic reunion that sees Anika Nilles assuming the late Neil Peart’s place on drums – Lee believes Lifeson doesn’t get his due, that some of the stuff he would come up with would blow his mind.
