“Making that record was like pulling teeth!” Rock legends Rush remember the album that drove them half-mad

Rush.

On this day (29 October) in 1978, the sixth studio album by Rush was released. Its title was Hemispheres, and as the band’s bassist, vocalist and keyboard player Geddy Lee admitted: “That record really took a chunk out of us.”

Hemispheres was a typically grand statement from the band that Metallica’s Kirk Hammett once descried as “the high priests of conceptual rock”.