Limelight Rush 1980s Biography
Limelight: Rush in the ’80s
The cover of “Limelight: Rush in the ’80s”, 2021 Heritage Toronto Awards Book Nominee. Cover image: Fin Costello/Getty Images.
Author: Martin Popoff
Publisher: ECW Press
Limelight: Rush in the ’80s is the second in the three-part series on Canadian band Rush. Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive first-hand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their careers during the 1980s. Limelight charts a dizzying period in the band’s career, built of explosive excitement but also exhaustion.
Martin Popoff has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music — approximately 7,900 across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 85 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock, and record-collecting. He was editor in chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bare Knuckles, Canada’s foremost metal publication, for fourteen years and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com, and hardradio.com.