Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Clockwork Angels: The Novel is an exciting, innovative project that brings together music and prose, wrapped around a colorful, exciting story. We also had input from the artist Hugh Syme, whose beautiful illustrations added even more ingredients to the mix. (Neil is himself an accomplished writer, with books such as Ghost Rider, Roadshow, and Far and Away.) As the album came together, I began writing, armed with the lyrics for all the songs and with Neil’s careful feedback, chapter by chapter, scene by scene. Neil approached me about writing the novel version several years ago while he was in the early planning stages of the album, and we discussed the story as it developed, building the characters, the adventures, the ideas, sometimes with a dozen e-mail exchanges per day. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he is caughtīetween the grandiose forces of order and chaos. The music in Clockwork Angels-the band’s twentieth studio album-tells a wonderful dystopian story, ripe for fleshing out as a full novel. Neil and I wrote a dark-fantasy short story together, “Drumbeats,” but we have always wanted to collaborate on something major, a way we could tie together our imaginations-and we’ve achieved it at last with Clockwork Angels: The Novel. Over more than twenty years, I can point to dozens of my other novels and stories that bear a clear Rush influence (and even, occasionally, offer a little bit of lyrical inspiration in the other direction). (1988), was closely inspired by their album Grace Under Pressure, which also led to a long-standing friendship with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. I have always drawn writing inspiration from music, and in particular from legendary rock band Rush. Hat’s a line from “Caravan,” the first single from Rush’s new album Clockwork Angels-definitely words to live by.
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