Exclusive Book Excerpt: Rush Expand on LP With 'Clockwork Angels: The Novel'

Rush drummer Neil Peart crafted such an epic story for the band’s new LP, Clockwork Angels, a mere rock album can’t tell the whole thing – so early in the process, he teamed with science fiction novelist Kevin J. Anderson to help him turn it into a book. “Kevin did the heavy lifting on the prose-writing,” says Peart. “But I was involved all the way in review and suggestions and the general shape and mood of it.”

 The group will play a great deal of Clockwork Angels on their upcoming fall tour (check out a lyric video of their newest single, “The Wreckers”), but Peart hopes the story will continue to live. “I want to see it on Ice Capades,” says Peart. “As they say, ‘I’ll be dining out on this for years.’ Cirque Du Soleil would also be amazing. As the character in one of the songs says, ‘I can’t stop thinking big!’”