As Rush's art director since 1975 ... like a marionette's," he said. Permanent Waves was the first of many Rush LPs designed around visual puns. Syme took the album title and ran with it ...

Severe storms, retro hair styles and erroneous newspaper headlines all factored into the memorable cover for Rush's 1980 album Permanent Waves ... the very literal art for Moving Pictures ...

Led by radio-conquering singles "Freewill" and "The Spirit of Radio ... album Permanent Waves helped launch the Canadian trio into rock's top tier of arena-fillers. How much the cover art ...

And after the two bands toured together, the influence flowed in the other direction as well, with Rush taking some inspiration ... on Permanent Waves, but it’s the first Rush album where ...

In “The Spirit of Radio,” the late Rush drummer ... s 1980 Permanent Waves album. On “Natural Science,” Peart urges us to maintain our integrity in matters of science and art.

The post Rush Share Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary Reissue: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Rush have shared a 40th anniversary reissue of their classic 1980 album Permanent Waves.

1980: On the Permanent Waves album, singer Lee is credited with playing bass guitars, Oberheim polyphonic, OB-1, Minimoog, and Taurus pedal synthesizers. 1983: The road-hogging Rush sells out ...

In 1979, Rush drummer Neil Peart wrote a song, “The Spirit of Radio,” that was inspired by CFNY and covertly appeared on the rock band’s Permanent Waves album under the catalog number ANR1 ...