Guitarist and co-songwriter for Rush. Great musician, also able to do a deep booming voice ("ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION...") Alex also fronted a one-off project called Victor, which released a self-titled album in the mid-'90s. The band's name was taken from a W.H. Auden poem that Lifeson recites on the album, with an odd jazzy background.
Editor's note: lerxstlady adds: "It is Neil Peart who does the "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation" line at the end of 2112, not Alex Lifeson. The only time Alex's speaking voice is heard is at the end of "Chain Lightning" off their Presto album, in which he says "That's nice". The voice - like Neil's is during both 2112 and the narrations he did for The Necromancer - is electronically modified to sound much deeper than it really is.