But it wasn’t an easy album to make - especially when it came to recording what is surely the band’s best known song, Tom Sawyer. At the end of the ’70s, Rush had arrived at a crossroads.
And you’ve gone from relating to Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” to being an aging modern-day warrior with a mean, mean crick in your neck.
Frontispiece from the first edition of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 1876. Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in ...