Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett proclaimed them “the high priests of conceptual rock”. Critic Robert Christgau, writing in 1977, dismissed them as “the most obnoxious band on the zonked teen circuit.

Geddy Lee — or rather, as his touching new memoir, “My Effin’ Life,” makes plain, the man born with so many family names, nicknames and colloquial derivations of names, his own mother was uncertain of ...