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  • Limelight: Rush in the ’80s

  • Rush Across the Decades, Book 2
  • By: Martin Popoff
  • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
  • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Limelight: Rush in the ’80s

By: Martin Popoff
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
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Summary

Part two of the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North - covering Rush's most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows

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 listeners 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.

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Fly on the wall or as good as it gets

If you are Rush fan, and you have not read this trilogy, just get it…you’re gonna love it.

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Great Rush audiobook

Well narrated ,with some intereting and in depth tales from one of the best bands ever.
Shame there wasn't a continuation up to clockwork angels.
Essential😼👍

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Grand designs and great delivery

I think most Rush fans will know most of the stories but there are a few interviews that I hadn’t heard. Certainly the parts about recording and producing and mixing seemed more interesting. Well worth a listen.

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