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Rush's Geddy Lee scores top five placing on the Sunday Times Bestseller List with My Effin' Life memoir

Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee joins Britney Spears, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly and late Friends star Matthew Perry at the summit of the UK's best-selling books chart

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"Circus magazine said, 'If Lee's voice was any higher and raspier, his audience would consist exclusively of dogs and extraterrestrials": Watch Geddy Lee read from his memoir My Effin' Life onstage in Seattle with Nirvana's Krist Novoselic

Geddy Lee has a suggestion for you if you don't like his singing voice, and it's a pleasingly unfiltered suggestion

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32 Celebrities That Have Been Friends Since Before They Were Famous

Years and years of friendship!

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Geddy Lee says that Paul McCartney has tried to convince him and Alex Lifeson to tour again: “He was lecturing Al about how great it is... ‘You have to do it, man. You have to get back out there’”

It sounds like McCartney made a persuasive case but Lee says Lifeson might still need some more persuading before we can look forward to any form of Rush reunion tour

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"There was so much emotional static and fear and paranoia": Geddy Lee on the Rush album that was the most difficult to make

Even for one of the most accomplished bands in rock history, making records isn't always easy

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Watch Alex Lifeson join Tool on stage in Toronto

Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson jams with US prog metallers Tool on A Passage To Bangkok and Jambi

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"I said, 'I'm glad the music meant something to you,' and she burst into tears!": On the road with Rush's Geddy Lee

In 2019 Classic Rock accompanied Geddy Lee on the road as he promoted Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass

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"We were never fascists. To suggest that 2112 was suckering kids into a right-wing mantra with fascistic overtones was wrong-headed and irresponsible": Geddy Lee shuts down the idea that Rush were promoting "proto fascism" on 2112

Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee has no time for the suggestion that his band were promoting far right beliefs on 2112

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"He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour

Beatle Sir Paul offered his boozy wisdom to Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

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"Someone said that I sounded like the damned howling in Hades": Geddy Lee on why Rush shunned their record label and management's wishes that they'd become the next Led Zeppelin or Bad Company

Rush "always agreed that the very idea of compromise was offensive" says Geddy Lee

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Geddy Lee names the Rush album that he hopes to see turned into a film

"Neil always wanted to bring the story to the screen in some way"

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“I walked away feeling we had done justice to Taylor and justice to Neil”: Geddy Lee on how playing the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts helped bring Rush closure

Lee and bandmate Alex Lifeson played Rush classics with Dave Grohl, Omar Hakim, Chad Smith and Danny Carey

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"As the tour wound down, the mood started to change and it split into two camps... we were quite divided by the end": Geddy Lee recalls the internal tensions on Rush's final tour, R40

Rush's R40 tour represented a victory lap for the much-loved Canadian prog-rock heroes, but for the three musicians it was a bitter-sweet experience, Geddy Lee admits

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"I can still remember the three of us sitting there on the bed in utter awe": Geddy Lee recalls the day that Rush listened to Led Zeppelin for the first time

Hearing Led Zeppelin's debut album changed everything for Rush: "This was our new paradigm" Geddy Lee recalls

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”Jethro Tull influenced me a lot in the later years of Rush - that attitude of taking your music seriously but not taking yourself seriously”: Geddy Lee’s prog stars

He believes Clockwork Angels is the best record he’s made… but can’t decide which of two is the worst

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Book Review: Rock 'n' roller and Rush pioneer Geddy Lee goes deep in his memoir, 'My Effin' Life'

Geddy Lee is a rock star, that’s undeniable

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"It had been a taboo subject" – why Geddy Lee isn't ruling out a Rush reunion with Alex Lifeson anymore

The Canadian prog legends' debut album will be 50 years old in 2024 – could something be on the cards?

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Geddy Lee won't rule out future Rush shows with Alex Lifeson

Having previously ruled out continuing without late drummer Neil Peart, Rush appear to be softening to the idea

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Dolly Parton: The Queen Of Country on assembling rock's A-List for her mammoth, hugely anticipated rock album: only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Geddy Lee, The Struts, Duff McKagan, David Bowie, Guns N' Roses, ZZ Top, The Gaslight Anthem, Clutch, KK Downing and more

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Post your questions for Rush frontman Geddy Lee

Ask anything of the prog rock star, who is publishing his memoir in November and doing a spoken word tour of the UK

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"I was sitting there thinking, I can’t hear guitar": Alex Lifeson on the battle behind Rush's most divisive song, Subdivisions

Sonically, Subdivisions took Rush further into the world of synthesisers – and guitarist Alex Lifeson wasn't happy about it

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Billy Sheehan's 6 top tips for bass players: “Listen to any great band and think about how the bass and drums work together, like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, or Steve Harris and Nicko McBrain"

“Speed is just one of many tools you can use to create music”

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"If I can't sing it with conviction then it doesn't matter, I can’t do it": What happened when Rush met the Manic Street Preachers

At the end of 2007, there was a clash of cultures as Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers went head to head with Rush and probed their inner secrets

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“You bassists who think your bass isn’t loud enough, you’re right! I always want my bass louder in the mix”: How Geddy Lee found his sound with Rush

Geddy Lee used distortion to “knit together” his live sound with Canada’s pioneering power trio

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“A reunion is something I'm absolutely resistant to”: how Yes weathered a decade of turmoil to return with their finest album in years

Yes men Steve Howe and Jon Davison look back at the band’s turbulent recent history – and what the future may hold

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