Rethinking Rush: my Prog Rock renaissance

A Rock Academy show inspires the post I never thought I'd write.

At the start of 1978 it would have been harder to imagine two less likely fanzine cover bedfellows than Rush and The Jam. Late in 1977, the Canadian prog rockers had released what was already their fifth studio LP, A Farewell To Kings, while the Jam released their second, This Is The Modern World. At exactly five minutes, the instrumental introduction t…