This is interesting news.

Rush, which has never been known for covering other artists' material (although their very first single was a cover of Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away), is now releasing a new album to commemorate their 30 years together consisting of eight cover songs representing their earliest musical influences:

• Summertime Blues (Blue Cheer/Eddie Cochran)


• Heart Full of Soul (Yardbirds)


• Shapes of Things (Yardbirds)


• The Seeker (The Who)


• For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)


• Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield)


• Seven and Seven Is (Love)


• Crossroads (Robert Johnson/Cream)

More in the extended entry. . .

If I were to do the same thing (come up with eight songs that greatly influenced my rock keyboard style), they would be:

• Fanfare for the Common Man (Copland/ELP)


• Hush (Deep Purple)


• Angry Young Man/Foolin' Yourself (Styx)


• Tom Sawyer (Rush)


• Pirates (ELP)


• Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)


• Legend of a Mind (Moody Blues)


• Black Magic Woman (Santana)

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