Rush PRE-ORDER: - R50 (7xLP + 4xCD Super Deluxe Vinyl Edition Box Set)

Release Date: March 21, 2025

This March, UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records label groups will celebrate the half-century milestone marker for Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame icons RUSH with RUSH 50, a wide-ranging 50-track super deluxe anthology that encompasses the entirety of the band’s long and storied career for the first time across all the band’s label groups.

Available from 21 March 2025, RUSH 50 will be bookended with the first ever reissue of their debut 1973 single and a live recording of the last song they ever performed together as a band at their final concert in 2015 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

RUSH 50 serves as a complete career-spanning anthology on seven LPs 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.

The Super Deluxe Edition includes four CDs, seven LPs, and new artwork from Hugh Syme, the band’s longtime creative director who has designed the collection’s brand-new 50th anniversary graphics along with 29 new illustrations that celebrate the vibrant essence of Rush’s songs. The seven high-quality 180-gram audiophile black-vinyl LPs each feature additional new artwork from Syme in premium tip-on jackets. Each LP in the Super Deluxe Edition has been cut via Direct Metal Mastering and they have been pressed at GZ Media in the Czech Republic. The included 104-page hardcover book sports detailed essays from noted rock journalists David Fricke and Philip Wilding, who both recount their individual experiences with the band and convey their crowning achievements — and all of it is centered around incredible career-spanning photos of the band in action. Exclusives to the Super Deluxe Edition are 20 new illustration lithographs by Syme – showcasing one song from each studio album, and a second hardcover book, the brand-new 100-page graphic novel The Fullness Of Time. written and illustrated by Fantoons, the graphic novel visually brings to life a conversation between Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reflecting on the trials, tribulations and successes recording each studio album with contributions from many of the producers and engineers who were instrumental in the evolution of Rush’s sound over the years — Terry Brown, Peter Henderson, Paul Northfield, Peter Collins, Rupert Hine, Kevin “Caveman” Shirley, Stephen W. Tayler, and Nick Raskulinecz. Finally, all of the contents in RUSH 50 are housed in a premium box with rotating lid and a “Rush 50” golden jubilee emblem.

Year

2025

Labels

Mercury, Anthem, UMe

Format

7xVinyl, 4xCD, Album, Box Set