Quincy Woman Still Promoting RUSH 34 Years After Discovering Band

Chuck MacLean of WickedLocal.com reports: Whenever the rock band RUSH comes to the area, Quincy, Massachusetts' Donna Halper has a backstage pass waiting for her. That's because she discovered the band in 1974 while working at a Cleveland radio station.

Halper said she listened to the self-titled album — sent by a colleague whose company passed on it — because she needed a "bathroom song," a track long enough so the DJ can run from the studio to the loo and be back in time to cue up the next song.

"So I dropped the needle down on 'Working Man', which was more than seven minutes I recall, and I thought immediately 'forget bathroom songs, this is a good record,'" Halper said. "That's when I got excited about the band."

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