Rush 50 career spanning 4 cd boxed set - Now Available

Rush 50, a career spanning four cd boxed set hit shelves today, March 21st. The set is available in four formats: 4 CD, 7 LP, digital and Super Deluxe editions.

"RUSH 50 serves as a complete career-spanning Rush anthology on seven LPs and four CDs, featuring 50 tracks in total - seven of them previously unreleased - alongside numerous choice selections from every studio album, live release, and deluxe reissue the band has officially released over the years. Amongst the Holy Grail unreleased tracks are the first-ever official CD and LP reissue of Rush's very first single on Moon Records from 1973, 'Not Fade Away' and 'You Can't Fight It,' a pair of early gems that Rush fans have been clamoring to be released officially for decades - newly remastered from the original analog tapes. Other studio rarities found on RUSH 50 include Vault Editions of 1974's 'Working Man' and 1978's 'The Trees,' both of which showcase alternate guitar solos by Alex Lifeson, with the former track only having been available as a digital single while the latter cut has never been officially released beyond its appearance on instrument-based video games. Additionally, five unreleased live songs have been culled from some of Rush's most legendary performances. Four of them - including two non-album cuts, 'Bad Boy' and 'Garden Road' - originate from a pair of the band's earliest live shows at (1) Laura Secord Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, on May 15, 1974, and (2) the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 26, 1974. The two live tracks from the Ontario show include original drummer John Rutsey ('Need Some Love' and 'Before and After'), while the other two from the Cleveland gig feature Neil Peart behind the kit ('Bad Boy' and 'Garden Road'). Rush visited New York's iconic Electric Lady Studios in December of 1974 with their unreleased performance of 'Anthem' being presented here. The RUSH 50 collection's last unreleased live offering comes from Rush's final career performance with Peart that took place at The Forum in Los Angeles, California, on August 1, 2015 - a masterful, nuanced medley construction of 'What You're Doing / Working Man / Garden Road' newly mixed from the multi-tracks by longtime Rush producer & engineer Terry Brown." - Rush.com

The setlist is below.

CD One

1. Not Fade Away**
2. You Can't Fight It**
3. Working Man (Vault Edition)**
4. Need Some Love (Live at Laura Secord Secondary School - May 1974)**
5. Before And After (Live at Laura Secord Secondary School - May 1974)**
6. Bad Boy (Live at Agora Ballroom - Aug 1974)*
7. Garden Road (Live at Agora Ballroom - Aug 1974)*
8. Anthem (Live at Electric Lady Studios - Dec 1974)*
9. Fly By Night
10. Bastille Day
11. 2112: Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx
12. By-Tor & The Snow Dog (Live at Massey Hall - Jun 1976)
13. Something For Nothing (Live at Massey Hall - Jun 1976)

CD Two

1. Closer To The Heart
2. Xanadu (Live at Hammersmith Odeon - Feb 1978)
3. Drum Solo (Live at Hammersmith Odeon - Feb 1978)
4. The Trees (Vault Edition)*
5. La Villa Strangiato (Live at Pink Pop Festival - Jun 1979)
6. In The Mood (Live at Pink Pop Festival - Jun 1979)
7. The Spirit Of Radio
8. Natural Science (Live at Manchester Apollo - Jun 1980)
9. A Passage To Bangkok (Live at Manchester Apollo - Jun 1980)
10. Tom Sawyer
11. Limelight (Live at Maple Leaf Gardens - Mar 1981)
12. Vital Signs (Live at Maple Leaf Gardens - Mar 1981)

CD Three

1. YYZ (Live at Montreal Forum - Mar 1981)
2. Subdivisions
3. Red Sector A
4. Witch Hunt (Live at Maple Leaf Gardens - Sep 1984)
5. New World Man (Live at Maple Leaf Gardens - Sep 1984)
6. The Big Money
7. Time Stand Still
8. Distant Early Warning (Live at NEC Arena - Apr 1988)
9. Superconductor
10. Dreamline
11. Stick It Out
12. Test For Echo
13. The Rhythm Method (Live at World Music Theatre - Jun 1997)

CD Four

1. One Little Victory (Remixed)
2. Cygnus X-1 (Live at Maracanã Stadium - Nov 2002)
3. The Seeker
4. Between The Wheels (Live at Festhalle Frankfurt - Sep 2004)
5. The Main Monkey Business
6. Workin' Them Angels (Live at Ahoy Arena - Oct 2007)
7. Freewill (Live at Quicken Loans Arena - Apr 2011)
8. Red Barchetta (Live at Quicken Loans Arena - Apr 2011)
9. Headlong Flight
10. Manhattan Project (Live at US Airways Center - Nov 2012)
11. Jacob's Ladder (Live at Air Canada Centre - Jun 2015)
12. What You're Doing / Working Man / Garden Road (Live at Los Angeles Forum - Aug 2015)*

* Previously unreleased
** Previously unreleased on CD & LP