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At 86, the singer and songwriter is seeing his albums reissued as he occasionally takes the stage to celebrate his ...
Tragedy has struck the Peart family again, five years after the death of famed Rush drummer Neil Peart in 2020. Neil Peart’s brother, Danny, passed away from complications of the cancer on March 13.
Neil Peart was born on his family’s farm near Hagersville in Ontario, Canada on September 12, 1952. A few years later the family moved to St. Catherines, a middle-class Canadian suburban town 70 ...
Neil Peart at Bridgestone Arena on May 1, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee (Image credit: ... There, a smiling Kermit The Frog is set atop both posts of the iron gates. The studio is filled with history.
It’s hard to underestimate the impact of Andrew MacNaughtan’s death on Rush, not least on Peart. It was his decision to first use the photographer, and it was Andrew who first introduced Neil to ...
Four years after the death of Neil Peart, the Rush drummer’s final book is set for publication.. Silver Surfers, subtitled Sports Cars of the Sixties, documents Peart’s auto obsession.“For ...
Following Peart’s death in 2020 from brain cancer, Lee and Lifeson confirmed the band as we know it is over. The duo have suggested, though, that they could one day record new music together if ...
Neil Peart was still processing what they’d witnessed as he boarded the plane they’d hired to get them to that evening’s gig. “I remember thinking to myself as we flew back to Fort Worth after a ...
Nicknamed ‘The Smiling Drummer,’ Carter Beauford, ... Brother of Rush’s Neil Peart Has Passed Away From the Same Cancer That Took Peart’s Life. March 17, 2025 1:34 pm.
Welch mentions the work of late Rush drummer Neil Peart. “There’s a YouTube video of one of his drum solos that shouldn’t be able to be played by one person,” Welch laughs.
Neil Peart was once asked by Godsmack singer Sully Erna if he would play on one of the band's songs. He politely declined, but he had a good explanation for it. Speaking with Revolver, Erna ...
Neil Peart thanked the group's road crew, co-producers, friends and family. Geddy Lee spoke of his "two really terrific partners" in the band, and spoke of "the privilege" of making music together.