However you feel about Rush, you have to admit the band has something special.
Critics have always shrugged at the Canadian trio. Rush’s intellectual lyrics about Mithril steel and black holes can seem overwrought, the band’s lengthy orchestral workouts can prove confounding, and the singer’s siren wail remains a love-it or hate-it affair.
But slowly and deliberately, Rush has built a massive cult following and developed into one of the biggest bands in the world — if not the entire galaxy, as some of their fans would attest.
In the new career-spanning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, an unrated film that heads to DVD and cable TV after its limited theatrical run, we see a moving portrait of three goofy guys from Toronto who dropped out of high school to play in a rock band. Their parents hated the idea, the musicians possessed limited fashion sense and sex appeal, and they were too young to play anywhere other than church dances.
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