Sad news for Rush fans...
More sadness to report from the extended Rush family.
The late Neil Peart's younger brother, Danny Peart, passed away last Thursday, March 13th, from the same brain cancer that killed Neil in 2020 -- glioblastoma. He was 71.
Danny was an accomplished writer and a member of the League of Canadian Poets, and their sister Nancy says they will “be planting a tree at Lakeside Park in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada beside our Father's tree and Neil's pavilion and will have a new award starting at this year's golf tournament for 'Sportsmanship' as this was his true self. It is ironic that his golf team has repeatedly come in 2nd place!"
Neil wrote the foreword to Danny's 2016 book, Stark Naked in a Laundromat.
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We came close to seeing a reunion of Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on stage again this summer.
Lifeson says they were invited to and agreed to take part in the final Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath performances on July 5th in Birmingham, England, but they had something come up.
Their last performances together were in 2022 at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts in London and Los Angeles.
Last year, Rush fans got their hopes up when Geddy said he and Alex get together occasionally to "jam a little bit."
Meanwhile, Alex is busy with his other band, Envy of None. They'll release their second album, Stygian Wavz, on March 28th.
They released a new single today, "The Story," along with a video that you'll find below.
And, Geddy is getting ready to publish his third book, this one of his love of baseball, 72 Stories, on June 10th.