Awards - Honors

Updated: 12/20/2020

• December 1990 - Rush wins Mayor's Award at the Toronto Music Awards.
• May 1993 - Rush is inducted into the Harvard Lampoon and named “Musicians Of The Millennium”.
• October 1993 - Rush is a recipient of the Toronto Arts Award.
• May 1996 - Lee, Lifeson, and Peart are made Officers of the Order of Canada, the first rock musicians so honored.
• May 1999 - Rush inducted into Canada's Walk Of Fame in Toronto.
• June 2008 - The band was selected by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star will be presented in 2009.
• March 28, 2010 - Rush inducted into the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame.
• June 25, 2010 - Rush received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 2012: Governor General's Award for Performing Arts: 2012 Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Popular Music)

  • Rush's acceptance speech

  • Neil Peart's June 2012 article, "Where Words Fail, Music Speaks"

  • The Toronto Star

  • The Canadian Music Scene

  • Film: Inner Rush

  • Winnipeg Free Press: MPs, ministers get a Rush from award-winning band's Commons visit