It's the "year of the prog!" (See what I did there?!)
Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Rush, Marillion... all new albums...
*barely can contain excitment of running to HMV on day of release... only to find the band isn't trendy enough to be sold in the store so having to buy online instead...*
I was instrumental in bringing RUSH to these shores. When I lived in Nigeria I had a Canadian mate and when were both back in our native countries he sent two of the same album by his mates band who were called RUSH. They asked me to keep one and to send the other to our best known music paper. At the time it was SOUNDS and I sent the album to Geoff Barton who gave it a glowing review.
The rest is history.
Subsequent albums were sent by him although for some reason he sent Caress Of Steel after 2112 and All The Worlds A Stage. I also sent Fly By Night to Geoff Barton for reviewing.
My part of the swap was to send him Ramones albums because he couldn't get them in Toronto.
Of course I saw RUSH on the first three tours on these shores and then attended the R30 concert at the NEC where I didn't know 3/4 of the songs.
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