Rush drummer Neil Peart have discussed being asked to keep the legend’s health battles private in a new interview.Peart passed away last January after quietly battling brain cancer for three years.Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson and Peart’s wife Carrie Nuttall have now spoken to Rolling Stone to mark the one year anniversary of the drummer’s death yesterday (January 7).In the interview, Lifeson said that Peart “asked us not to discuss [the illness] with anyone,” adding: “He just wanted to be in control of it.
The last thing in the world he would want is people sitting on his sidewalk or driveway singing ‘Closer to the Heart’ or something.“That was a great fear of his.
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