Somewhere, out there, so far away that most of us can't even begin to imagine the distance, the very broadcast of the song that I have come to think of as changing my life travels on and on, unstopping and unstoppable. Out there are the songs that touched every one of us in some way. If, as some scientists believe, and I hope, there is life out there, and they are sufficiently advanced, they may one day hear and see the things that affected our lives. Songs we fell in love to, songs with which we took out our anger, songs that brought us together and songs that drove us insane. Mine's out there, I know that. Maybe whoever or whatever hears it won't understand any of it at all, and surely they won't be instant Rush fans like I was, but at least they'll have the answer that many of us have been looking for: the signs that someone out there has been listening and watching and waiting for a sign, too.

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This begins a new series focusing on the music of my life. It won't always be serious, it won't always be this long, but it will always be something meaningful to me that happened around the music that has filled my life for so long. Rather than a boring list of songs or albums from a particular year and why they were important, I thought it would be a lot more interesting not only for readers but for me to talk about the music that meant something to me.