Rolling Stone Article on Neil Peart, wife and band-mates speak for the first time

On the one-year anniversary of Neil Peart’s (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) passing, the Rush drum god’s bandmates, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, his widow, Carrie Nuttall, and more speak for the first time about his bold life and brave final years. Read our exclusive digital cover story.

Excerpt from the article:

Rush’s virtuoso drum hero lived by his own rules, to the very end. For the first time since Peart’s passing, his bandmates and widow discuss his legacy and his final years.

Neil Peart made it only 10 months into his hard-won retirement before he started to feel like something was wrong. Words were, for once, the problem. Peart, one-third of the Toronto band Rush, was one of the world’s most worshiped drummers, unleashing his unearthly skills upon rotating drum kits that grew to encompass what seemed like every percussive possibility within human invention.

An article by Brian Hiatt / January 7, 2021

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