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Rush was inducted into the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame on Sunday, March 28 for their songs Closer to the Heart, The Spirit of Radio, Limelight, Tom Sawyer, and Subdivisions. Rush is the first band to be inducted. You can listen to the entire show on the CBC website.

Listen to Neil Peart's acceptance speech

Here are some articles about the event:

Toronto Sun

CTV article

Canadian Music Scene Site (photos)

CBC News video: Rush Inducted into Hall of Fame

Canada.com article

Canadian Press video (Neil Peart interviewed)

Jam Showbiz: Rush Inducted into Songwriters Hall

Jacob Moon's blog (he performed Subdivisions at this event)

Thanks to Rushisband.com and PowerWindows for the links

Labels: Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Here's yet another interview with Neil Peart. Some really interesting stuff in this one. For example, here's what he had to say about Subdivisions.

"It's a very unusual song construction lyrically and musically that we managed to make work," he said. "It was written at a time when we weren't working, so to speak. We were mixing a live album and we just started playing around and wrote a song for fun. Although it's very serious in it's musical structure, one of the most complicated actually that we've had in terms of arrangement drum part alone, it's a really intricate drum part to play and consequently I still love playing it almost 30 years later and that's a good testament."

CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Rush: Rush-ing into Songwriters Hall

via Power Windows

Labels: awards, Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, interview