Limelight

Rush in the '80s

By: Martin Popoff

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Paperback | 7 October 2021

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328 Pages

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14.6 x 22.1 x 2.7

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Now in paperback, the second book in the three-part series celebrating Canada's iconic rock band, offering the most comprehensive biography ever, cultural context, and canon analysis. All based on extensive firsthand interviews with family, friends, musicians, and the boys in the band. Book two covers the height of Rush's popularity and is a look at all their 1980s albums.

In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the ’70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the ’80s, and the second book of Popoff’s staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes readers from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory. Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is a celebration of fame, of the pushback against that fame, of fortunes made and spent…

In the latter half of the decade, as Rush adopts keyboard technology and gets pert and poppy, there’s an uproar amongst diehards, but the band finds a whole new crop of listeners. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion, a state that would lead, as the ’90s dawned, to the band questioning everything they previously believed, and each member eying the oncoming decade with trepidation and suspicion.

Industry Reviews

“Music critic Martin Popoff delivers an excellent follow-up to his recent Anthem: Rush in the '70s … Die-hard Rush fans will devour this fascinating deep-dive into the band's musically controversial decade.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

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