Group Rush by right is considered one of the most known and authoritative rock collectives of Canada, the foundress of style hard hard-n-art. Everything as it often happens has However, begun, from imitation – in idols the future participants Rush have erected not somebody, and the British supergroups Cream and Yardbirds. Business was in a nice city of Toronto in the heat of ''youth movement»: on a court yard there was a 1968. At high school the son of the Yugoslavian emigrants of Sasha Zhivojnovich and the offspring of the Polish Jews Harry Li Vejnrib have got acquainted with profound studying of history. Subsequently Sasha anglicized the a name and a surname, taking a sonorous pseudonym Alex Lajfson, Whether and Harry Li has turned in Geddi as the grandmother (and behind her all this world, and not managed to remember a difficult surname of the musician) called him on Yiddish. However, cooperation of young talents has begun not at once. At first Alex, since young years tormenting a guitar, has hammered together own command The Projection, having invited in it the neighbors along the street bass player Jeff Johns and drummer John Ratsi. Gaddy too played on a guitar, having before companions one doubtless advantage – namely the guitar amplifier which The Projection sometimes leased at it. Once Jeff was ill also with Geddi has changed it at a concert and when Johns has left group, Whether has taken its place, having switched from a guitar to a bass. The command took proud name Rush (''Jerk''). But the way to glory was uneasy.