Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers.

However, despite these many differences some of the music and songs still closely mirrored the blues style found on Rush's debut.

Permanent Waves ( 1980 ) dramatically shifted Rush's style of music via the introduction of reggae and new wave elements.

With the approach of the early ' 90s and Rush's characteristic sound still intact, the band transformed their style once again to harmonize with the alternative rock movement.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Peart also serves as Rush's primary lyricist, attracting much attention over the years for his eclectic style.

The album shows more of Rush's adherence to hard progressive rock, as opposed to the blues-based heavy metal and hard rock style of the band's first two albums.

* Drummer Neil Peart of the Canadian rock band Rush recorded a version of " One O ' Clock Jump " with the Buddy Rich Big Band, and has used it at the end of his drum solos on the 2002 Vapor Trails Tour and Rush's 30th Anniversary Tour.

Modern digital technology has also enabled a power trio to duplicate their studio performances in concert, as evidenced by Rush's 1989 live album, A Show of Hands, where Lee simultaneously sings, plays bass, and plays keyboard with foot pedals.

He has appeared on the Classic Albums documentaries on the making of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Nirvana's Nevermind, Metallica's Black Album, Frank Zappa's Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation as well as Rush's Moving Pictures and 2112 albums.

Although total worldwide album sales are not calculated by any single entity, as of 2004 several industry sources estimated Rush's total worldwide album sales at over 40 million units.

The games are only especially remembered for Ian Rush's impressive haul of five goals for Liverpool over the two games ( although these goals are sometimes excluded from his official record-breaking Merseyside derby tally, probably due to them having been scored in a minor competition against what was largely an Everton reserve side ) and for Kevin Sheedy's spectacular goal for Everton at Anfield, scored from a long-range free-kick at the Kop end ( a feat he would repeat later in the season in a league derby match ).

He scored the equaliser for Liverpool against Manchester United in the league on 22 September, but with Rush's return to fitness soon afterwards, Walsh did not score in the league again until 20 April, in a 3 – 1 home win over Newcastle United.

1994 – 95 was a frustrating campaign for Clough, who managed just 10 league appearances and failed to score, as Fowler and Rush's partnership become even more unbreakable and Fowler managed over 20 goals in all competitions, while the ageing Rush was still playing well with his tally for the season being well into double figures.

Four years later, Shevchenko was on the Dynamo Kyiv under-14 team for the Ian Rush Cup ( now the Welsh Super Cup ); he finished as the tournament's top scorer and was awarded a pair of Rush's boots as a prize by the then-Liverpool player.

Two years later, he attended the College of Philadelphia, studying medicine under Dr. Thomas Shippen, and attended Dr. Benjamin Rush's lectures in 1785.

During Rush's early period, Lee's voice was described as a " Robert Plant-esque wail.

For his first local gigs in the early 1970s and Rush's debut album, Lee used a Fender Precision Bass.

For Rush's 2010 tour, Lee is using 2 × Orange AD200 bass heads together with 2 × OBC410 4x10 Bass Cabinets.

For live shows in 2002 and 2004, Lee and his keyboard technician used the playback capabilities of the XV-5080 to generate virtually all of Rush's keyboard sounds to date, as well as additional complex sound passages that previously required several machines at once to produce.

Rush's crew loaded the dryers with specially designed Rush-themed T-shirts, different from the shirts on sale to the general public.

Rush's sales statistics place them third behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum studio albums by a rock band.

After several line-up reformations, Rush's official incarnation was formed in May 1971 consisting of Lee, Lifeson, and Rutsey.

The band was managed by local Toronto resident Ray Danniels, a frequent attendee of Rush's early shows.

Fly by Night ( 1975 ), Rush's first album after recruiting Peart, saw the inclusion of the band's first epic mini-tale " By-Tor and the Snow Dog ", replete with complex arrangements and multi-section format.

Hugh Syme, creator of graphics on many of Rush's albums, stated in a 1983 interview that the Starman " didn't begin as an identity factor for the band, it just got adopted.

In light of these events, Rush's record label pressured them into moulding their next album in a more commercially friendly and accessible fashion.

" Trademarks such as increased synthesizer usage, lengthy songs reminiscent of miniature concept albums, and highly dynamic playing featuring complex time signature changes became a staple of Rush's compositions.

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

Rush's popularity reached its pinnacle with the release of Moving Pictures in 1981.

The song also contained the band's heaviest usage of synthesizers up to that point, hinting that Rush's music was shifting direction once more.

The album delineates the apex of Rush's progressive period by featuring live material from the band's Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures tours.

It has all been done in superb style, and the result is a show which deserves the support of every person hereabouts who enjoys good musical theater.

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

However, later blues and rock and roll musicians attempted to imitate both his songs and his musical style.

Modern music may also be termed " Celtic " because it is written and recorded in a Celtic language, regardless of musical style.

One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.

In conjunction with the extremes between beauty and ugliness, Love's musical style has also been remarked for its layering of harsh and abrasive riffs which often bury more sophisticated musical arrangements.

Two capoeiristas enter the roda and play the game according to the style required by the musical instruments rhythm.

The other instruments must follow the berimbaus rhythm, free to vary and improvise a little, depending upon the Capoeira group's musical style.

In order to achieve credible improvisation in particular style, machine improvisation uses machine learning and pattern matching algorithms to analyze existing musical examples.

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres led to many permutations in its overall style.

The Estampie (, Occitan and, ) is a medieval dance and musical form, it was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries.

There was a clear progression in his development, from an early concentration on tap and musical comedy style to greater complexity using ballet and modern dance forms.

While Brooks's musical style placed him squarely within the boundaries of country music, he was strongly influenced by the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially the works of James Taylor ( whom he idolized and named his first child after ) and Dan Fogelberg.

This gumption in musical experimentation was the essence of Puccini's style, as evidenced in his diverse settings and use of the motif to express ideas beyond those in the story and text.

The present musical style is derived from the traditional musical accompaniment to the folk dance.

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the Southern United States.