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 Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages
of the band on tour and in the studio 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.
