Rushing Ahead!

RUSH: Headlong Into the New Album

The new single from Rush, "Headlong Flight," was "a joy to write and record from beginning to end," says singer and bass player Geddy Lee. "[Guitarist] Alex [Lifeson] and I had a blast jamming in my home studio one day before the second leg of the Time Machine tour, and I did not re-visit that jam until a year later. Alex and I assembled the song to be an instrumental, and its original title was 'Take That Lampshade Off Yo Head!," but once we saw the lyrics [drummer] Neil [Peart] had written, I knew that the spirit of the lyrics matched the instrumental perfectly and it was just a matter of making them fit and writing the melodies."

The song is off their new album, Clockwork Angels, in stores June 12th.