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Neil Ellwood Peart (/ p ɪər t / PEERT; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname 'The Professor', [ 2 ] derived from the Gilligan's Island character of the same name . [ 3 ]
After Rush finished their Test for Echo Tour in July 1997, the group entered a five-year hiatus following the personal tragedies in drummer Neil Peart's life, losing his daughter Selena in August 1997 and wife Jackie in June 1998. Peart took a hiatus and rode around North America on a motorcycle, covering 88,000 km (55,000 mi).
Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road is a 2002 philosophical travel memoir by Neil Peart, drummer and main lyricist for the Canadian progressive rock band Rush.It chronicles Peart's long-distance motorcycle riding throughout North and Central America in the late 1990s as he contemplated his life and came to terms with his grief over the deaths of his daughter Selena in August 1997 and his ...
Neil Peart, whose nearly five decades with prog-rock power-trio Rush established him as one of the greatest, most flamboyant, and most inventive virtuoso rock drummers of all time, died Tuesday ...
While Peart’s wife, Carrie Nuttall, is off on a surfing vacation in Mexico, he decides to take his CD collection and his new BMW Z8 convertible to Big Bend National Park in Texas. He plays music from notable bands such as Linkin Park , Vertical Horizon , and even Rush’s then-newest album, Vapor Trails .
Rush was a Canadian progressive rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario.For the overwhelming majority of its existence, the band consisted of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.
Rush (temporarily) - After the death of his daughter and wife within a year of each other, drummer Neil Peart was quoted in an interview as being "certain that I would never play drums or write lyrics or a book again." He would eventually rediscover his love for drums and reform Rush in 2001.
Multiple surgeries, family tragedy doesn't slow down New Prairie senior Lathon Rhodes. Gannett. Austin Hough, South Bend Tribune. September 19, 2024 at 4:02 AM.