Anthem: Rush in the 1970s
Anthem: Rush in the 1970s

Author: Martin Popoff

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1773055038

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The definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the ’70s is a detailed portrait of Canada’s greatest rock ambassadors. The first of three volumes, Anthem puts the band’s catalog, from their self-titled debut to 1978’s Hemispheres (the next volume resumes with the release of Permanent Waves) into both Canadian and general pop culture context, and presents the trio of quintessentially dependable, courteous Canucks as generators of incendiary, groundbreaking rock ’n’ roll. Fighting complacency, provoking thought, and often enraging critics, Rush has been at war with the music industry since 1974, when they were first dismissed as the Led Zeppelin of the north. Anthem, like each volume in this series, celebrates the perseverance of Geddy, Alex, and Neil: three men who maintained their values while operating from a Canadian base, throughout lean years, personal tragedies, and the band’s eventual worldwide success.

Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class
Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class

Author: Chris McDonald

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-11-02

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0253221498

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Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life—and its strategies for escape—reflected middle-class aspirations and anxieties, while its performances manifested the dialectic in prog rock between discipline and austerity, and the desire for spectacle and excess. The band's reception reflected the internal struggles of the middle class over cultural status. Critics cavalierly dismissed, or apologetically praised, Rush's music for its middlebrow leanings. McDonald's wide-ranging musical and cultural analysis sheds light on one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s.

And Party Every Day
And Party Every Day

Author: Larry Harris

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1617133833

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(Book). Now it can be told! The true, behind-the-scenes story of Casablanca Records, from an eyewitness to the excess and insanity. Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. From 1974 to 1980, the landscape of American culture was a banquet of hedonism and self-indulgence, and no person or company in that era was more emblematic of the times than Casablanca Records and its magnetic founder, Neil Bogart. From his daring first signing of KISS, through the discovery and superstardom of Donna Summer, the Village People, and funk master George Clinton and his circus of freaks, Parliament Funkadelic, to the descent into the manic world of disco, this book charts Bogart's meteoric success and eventual collapse under the weight of uncontrolled ego and hype. It is a compelling tale of ambition, greed, excess, and some of the era's biggest music acts.

Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider

Author: Neil Peart

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 1554907063

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In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 5

You Don't Own Me
You Don't Own Me

Author: Trevor Tolliver

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1495049736

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1963 – tail fins were in, sock hops were hot, and a fairytale white knight was president., That summer, sixteen year-old singer Lesley Gore released her debut single, “It's My Party ” propelling her to Number One on the charts., For the next several years, the crowned Princess of Pop dominated the radio with a string of hits including “Judy's Turn to Cry ” “She's A Fool ” “Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows ” and the rousing anthem for independence, “You Don't Own Me ” making her the most successful and influential solo female artist of the 60s., But beneath the bubblegum façade was a girl squirming against social and professional pressures to simply be herself and to forge a future where she could write and perform music beyond the trappings of teenage angst and love triangles., Assembled over five years of research and interviews, this is the first and long overdue biography of Lesley Gore, one of pop music's pioneering Mothers, which chronicles her meteoric rise to fame, her devastating fall from popularity and struggle for relevance in the 1970s, and her reemergence as a powerful songwriter, political activist, and camp icon., The biography includes behind-the-scenes stories about the making of her hit records, debunks or clarifies popular myths about her career, and places her remarkable life and times within a historical context to reveal how her music was both impacted by, and contributed to, each decade of her astounding fifty-year career.

Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings
Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings

Author: David Calcano

Publisher: Fantoons

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781970047127

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Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings chronicles the notorious story of how one of the most influential rock bands of all-time came to envision, write, and record their ground-breaking fifth studio album: A Farewell to Kings. Recorded and mixed in just over a month, A Farewell to Kings was adventurous, risk-taking album that brought the world two of the band’s most beloved songs: “Closer to the Heart” and the majestic “Xanadu.” Following the worldwide tour for their first major commercial success, 2112, Rush began their transition into their celebrated progressive rock sound with A Farewell to Kings. The progressive rock album allowed band members Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart to test out new instruments and recording styles, marking the transition into the eclectic sound fans have come to know and love. Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings chronicles the birth of this renowned album, from the moments Rush developed the idea for the unconventional sound to the legendary recording sessions at Rockfield Studios in Wales. Now with new contributions from Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and A Farewell to Kings producer Terry Brown, this graphic novel sheds light on new details even the most avid Rush fans will be excited to learn about the making of the band's fifth studio album. Featuring a new blueprint cover, the much-requested paperback version of the bestselling graphic novel, Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings, offers Rush fans the opportunity to add this epic, fully-authorized graphic novel to their collection. With stunning artwork and storytelling from the creative minds at Fantoons, readers will be taken on a wild and unforgettable journey through the making of one of the biggest commercial successes in Rush’s forty-plus-year-long career. Whether you’re a new Rush listener or a long-time follower, this book is a must-have for every Rush fan.

Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff
Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff

Author: Matt Kibbe

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0062308289

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Do you believe in the freedom of individuals to determine their own future and solve problems cooperatively? Don't hurt people, and don't take their stuff. Simple and straightforward, that's liberty in a nutshell—no assembly required. And yet it seems like, more and more, the decisions Washington makes about what to do for us, or to us, or even against us, are having an increasingly adverse impact on our lives. Young people can't find jobs, millions of Americans are losing the health care plans they were promised they could keep, and every one of us is somehow being targeted, monitored, snooped on, conscripted, induced, taxed, subsidized, regulated, or otherwise manipulated by someone else's agenda, based on someone else's decisions made in some secret meeting or closed-door legislative deal. What gives? Our government is out of control. But setting things right again requires that you step up and take your freedom back. From Matt Kibbe, the influential leader of FreedomWorks, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is the first true manifesto of a new libertarian grassroots movement. As political powermongers and crony corporatists in Washington continue to consolidate their control and infringe on our most fundamental liberties, Kibbe makes the libertarian case for freer people, more voluntary cooperation, and solving problems from the bottom up. He calls out the tyranny of faceless bureaucrats with too much power and discretion, laying out a clear road map for restoring liberty. A witty yet piercing critique of government's expanding control over you and your future, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a vital read for all those who cherish personal liberty and the unalienable right to choose your own path in life.

Traveling Music
Traveling Music

Author: Neil Peart

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1554907950

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Neil Peart decided to drive his BMW Z-8 automobile from L.A. to Big Bend National Park, in Southwest Texas. As he sped along “between the gas-gulping SUVs and asthmatic Japanese compacts clumping in the left lane, and the roaring, straining semis in the right,” he acted as his own DJ, lining up the CDs chronologically and according to his possible moods. “Not only did the music I listened to accompany my journey, but it also took me on sidetrips, through memory and fractals of associations, threads reaching back through my whole life in ways I had forgotten, or had never suspected…. Sifting through those decades and those memories, I realized that I wasn’t interested in recounting the facts of my life in purely autobiographical terms, but rather … in trying to unweave the fabric of my life and times. As one who was never much interested in looking back, because always too busy moving forward, I found that once I opened those doors to the past, I became fascinated with the times and their effect on me. The songs and the stories I had taken for granted suddenly had a resonance that had clearly echoed down the corridors of my entire life, and I felt a thrill of recognition, and the sense of a kind of adventure. A travel story, but not so much about places, but about music and memories.”

Namath: A Biography
Namath: A Biography

Author: Mark Kriegel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-07-26

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780143035350

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In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his kind, Namath enabled a nation to see sports as show biz. For an entire generation he became a spectacle of booze and broads, a guy who made bachelorhood seem an almost sacred calling, but it was his audacious “guarantee” of victory in Super Bowl III that ensured his legend. This unforgettable portrait brings readers from the gridiron to the go-go nightclubs as Kriegel uncovers the truth behind Broadway Joe and why his legend has meant so much to so many.

Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth
Rush: Wandering the Face of the Earth

Author: Skip Daly

Publisher: Insight Editions

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 168383450X

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2020 IBPA Awards Winner! Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart performed together for the first time to an audience of 11,000 people in 1974. Forty years later, their last tour sold over 442,000 tickets. This is the story of everything in between. This is the story of Rush. Fondly known as the Holy Triumvirate, Rush is one of the top bands to shine through rock-and-roll history. Wandering the Face of the Earth covers Rush’s storied touring career, from their humble beginnings as a Toronto-area bar band playing middle school gymnasiums to their rise as one of the world’s most sought-after live acts, selling out massive arenas around the globe. This book includes every setlist, every opening act, and every noteworthy moment meticulously researched and vetted by the band themselves. Along with spectacular, never-before-seen imagery, this is THE must-have tour compendium for Rush fans. —In Loving Memory, Neil Ellwood Peart 1952-2020