About To Be Dumped, Instead of Pop They Released an Experimental Masterpiece

August 27, 2022 – What a day in rock history! We lost a guitar God, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the ultimate rock manager Brian Epstein who brought the Beatles to super-stardom. Check out the video. John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 40 years […]

Radio Listeners First Thought They Were Zeppelin but What Followed Was Unique & Legendary

August 18, 2022 – In 1969 the original line-up of Rush (Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and John Rutsey) captured a Led Zeppelin concert at the Rock Plile in Toronto. Geddy Lee Told Classic Rock Magazine, “They were doing two shows, we were at the first show. It was general admission. […]

Every member of this Classic 70s band is dead except one – Today in Rock History

Every member of this Classic 70s band is dead except one, birthdays for Ian Anderson(Jethro Tull), Peter Beckett (Player), Bryan Adams Hits #1 with “Reckless” & there was tragedy for Neil Peart (Rush).  August 10, 2022 – This one took hours to put together because so much happened in Rock […]

Today in Rock History, July 23, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Guns N Roses, BTO, Police, Synchronicity

July 23, 2022 – We have been doing “Today In Rock History” for a little under a month now and, so far, this is the most action packed edition. Check out the video. If you would like to donate to “Rock History Music” https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VB2DNTLWAK8RN Support “Rock History Music” on Patreon […]

Rush’s Alex Lifeson Hasn’t Felt Inspired Since Neil Peart’s Death

Rush’s Alex Lifeson Hasn’t Felt Inspired Since Neil Peart’s Death Alex Lifeson was a guest on the popular,ar radio show “Talkin’ Golf With Ann Liguori” WFAN this morning. “It was a dream of any adolescent male to join a rock band and pick up chicks and this whole thing, but for us, the music […]

Legendary Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67

January 10, 2020 – The rock world is in shock today with news of Neil Peart’s death from brain cancer. He died on January 7th in Santa Monica, California. According to Elliot Mints, a spokesperson for the Peart family, he had been battling the disease for three years. Peart joined Rush […]

Rush’s Geddy Lee Says Neil Peart Has Quit Playing Drums Completely

Geddy Lee Says Neil Peart Has Given Up Drumming All Together The Rush bassist was on Trunk Nation on SiriusXM promoting his new book “Big Beautiful Book Of Bass” when, of course, the future of Rush came up. Lee says that he and Alex Lifeson live close to each other […]

Alex Lifeson of Rush Working on New Project with Drummer Marco Minnemann

Alex Lifeson of Rush Working on New Project with Drummer Marco Minnemann Last month we heard Rush’s Geddy Lee tell Rolling Stone Magazine that there was no chance of seeing Rush on tour again as Alex, Geddy and Neil but added, But would you see one of us or two […]

The Police’s Stewart Copeland Says Rush Didn’t Bite Concerning Feud

Stewart Copeland Says Rush Didn’t Bite Concerning Band Feud Dave Lifton just wrote an interesting story about the Police trying to get attention by criticizing Rush during their early days. Police drummer Stewart Copeland is on HDNET this week hosting “Classic Rock Week” and and showing many documentaries on Allman […]