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HUGH SYME

Rush’s visual wing gets the coffee table book he deserves.

Rush wouldn’t have been Rush without Hugh Syme. He was more than just the guy who designed every cover from 1975’s through to 2012’s swansong ; more, even, than an ancillary ‘fourth’ member. without seeing a puppet king draped limply on a throne in a crumbling building, or hearing without catching a faint whiff of whatever the Dalmatian on the cover of was smelling on that fire hydrant all those years ago. It’s impossible.

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