Alex Lifeson 1980

Alex Lifeson 1980, hand-drawn portrait of Alex at Le Studio in 1980, age 27.
Le Studio was a residential recording studio in the Laurentian Mountains near the town of Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada.
The studio was seen as one of the top recording venues in North America during its existence, renowned for its retreat-like location and state-of-the-art equipment.

Lifeson’s parents were Serb immigrants from Yugoslavia and was raised in Toronto. His stage surname of “Lifeson” is a calque of his birth surname Živojinović, which can be literally translated into English as “son of life”.

Lifeson is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush.

In 1968, Lifeson co-founded a band that would later become Rush, with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones.
Jones was replaced by Geddy Lee a month later, and Rutsey was replaced by Neil Peart in 1974, after which the lineup remained unchanged until the band’s dissolution in 2018.

Lifeson was the only member of Rush who stayed in the band throughout its entire existence, and he and Lee were the only members to appear on all of the band’s albums.

With Rush, Lifeson played electric and acoustic guitar, as well as other various string instruments such as mandola, mandolin, and bouzouki.
He also performed backing vocals in live performances and select studio recordings, and occasionally played keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers.

Along with his bandmates Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, Lifeson was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 9, 1996.
The trio was the first rock band to be so honored as a group.

In 2013, he was inducted with Rush into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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