The inevitable has happened: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, the living members of the legendary Canadian band Rush, have announced that they will go on a brief concert tour in 2026. They will, perhaps controversially, go out on the road as Rush rather than adopting some sort of “Lifeson and Lee and Friends” branding. The circumstances of the announcement are familiar ones: Rush had a spectacular farewell tour in 2015, with their renowned drummer Neil Peart increasingly overwhelmed by his own phenomenally intricate parts and his remorseless perfectionism. Peart died of glioblastoma in 2020, which seemed to put a permanent seal on the group.