This shouldn’t have happened.
After Rush quietly stepped out of the limelight following 2015’s R40 tour, and certainly after the death of unparalleled drummer and lyricist Neil Peart from brain cancer in 2020, the chances of seeing Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson together were remote to the point of insignificance.
So the mere fact that they were sharing the Bell Centre stage warranted the hurricane of a reception that greeted them, writes The Gazette's Jordan Zivitiz.