- Lakeside Park (song)
Infobox Song
Name = Lakeside Park
SorA = album
Artist = Rush
Album =Caress of Steel
Released =
track_no = 3
Recorded =
Genre =Hard rock
Length = 4:08
Writer = Lee and Lifeson Lyrics by Peart
Composer =
Label =Mercury Records
Producer = Rush &Terry Brown
prev = "I Think I'm Going Bald "
prev_no = 2
next = "The Necromancer "
next_no = 4Lakeside Park is the third song from Rush's third album
Caress of Steel . The music was written byGeddy Lee andAlex Lifeson and the lyrics were written byNeil Peart . The song details Peart's memories of many summers spent at the park.The "Lakeside Park" is St. Catharine's, on Lake Ontario in Canada. Neil Peart lived very near Lakeside Park and spent summers as a child working and playing there. The lyrics mention the "24th of May" which is Victoria Day, commemorating Queen Victoria's birthday.
Geddy Lee gave a somewhat unfavourable mention of the song in a 1993 interview: [citation
last = Johnson
first = Howard
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title = A Farewell to Bings
newspaper = Raw Magazine
pages = 93
issue = 135
year = 1993
date = 27 October / 9 November 1993
url = ]References
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