Different Stages

Different Stages is a live album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1998. The bulk of the first and second discs were recorded at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, Illinois, during the 1997 Test for Echo tour. Five other songs from various stops along the tour were included, as well as three songs from the 1994 Counterparts tour. The third disc is taken from a performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London during the A Farewell to Kings tour in 1978. The album was compiled and released by lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee and producer Paul Northfield in the wake of the deaths of drummer Neil Peart's daughter and first wife in 1997 and 1998, respectively. Production of the album occurred during Peart's recovery from his loss, as chronicled in his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, and he was consequently not involved in the project. At the time, Peart had declared to his bandmates that they should "consider [him] retired", leaving guitarist Alex Lifeson and Lee facing the possibility of the album being Rush's last.

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