#NEWMUSIC: BILLY TALENT RECORD COVER OF RUSH’S “LIMELIGHT” FOR “MONDAY NIGHT HOCKEY”

Multi-platinum Canadian rock powerhouse Billy Talent has officially released their Amazon Music Original cover of the legendary Rush anthem, “Limelight.” Recorded for Prime Monday Night Hockey, which streams all national regular season Monday night games on Prime Video in Canada, the song fuses Billy Talent’s signature urgent intensity with the progressive rock majesty of the original track, linking two generations of Canadian rock greatness with the country’s national sport. Available to stream now, the Amazon Music Original will be featured throughout Prime Monday Night Hockey’s 2025-26 season broadcast, exclusively on Prime Video in Canada.

Listen to the song here and learn more about Prime Monday Night Hockey, here.

The band approached the project with immense reverence for Rush’s enduring legacy. Lead singer Ben Kowalewicz spoke to the significance of the opportunity: “It’s such an honour for us to be asked to cover Rush. They are, without a doubt, one of the greatest Canadian bands of all time, and ‘Limelight’ is a classic.” He also reflected on the challenge of reinterpreting the iconic vocals, saying, “Geddy Lee had such a silky approach to his vocal, which was beautiful. I tried my best to lend some of what I was doing to that, paying homage to it, but also you have to sing it and you gotta feel it in your own way too, so I think it’s a good balance of how I sang and trying to do the song justice.”

Guitarist Ian D’Sa said: “It couldn’t be more Canadian for us to cover Rush’s ‘Limelight’ for Prime Monday Night Hockey. I’ve been listening to this song since I was a kid, and I always wanted to learn Alex [Lifeson’s] parts because it contains three of my favourite Alex riffs of all time. They are just crazily inventive, unique parts that only Alex Lifeson could write, and it was such a fun thing to learn for me as a guitar player.”

Bassist Jon Gallant adds, “It was just sitting down an hour or two every day and going through the song over and over until I could precisely hear everything that Geddy Lee was doing and just tried to copy it almost exactly.”

Billy Talent is one of Canada’s most successful bands. They have sold nearly one million albums in Canada alone and nearly 3 million albums internationally and have over 2 billion global streams across their catalogue. They have won 7 Juno Awards and have been nominated 23 times, including three nods for Afraid of Heights (Group of the Year, Rock Album of the Year, and Ian D’Sa for Producer of the Year). Their most recent studio album Crisis of Faith debuted at #1 in Germany, #8 in Canada, and had three singles hit the #1 spot at Canadian rock radio which combined to spend a total of 21 weeks atop the Canadian Rock radio chart.