Geddy Lee: Last News

Geddy Lee is going to spill about his “effin’ life” this fall.The 70-year-old Rush frontman and bassist just announced a 14-show book tour promoting his new memoir “My Effin’ Life.”Along the way, the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will drop into New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Monday, Nov. 13 to read passages from the book, chat with a special guest interviewer and answer questions from fans.And yes, audience members receive a copy of “My Effin’ Life” at each and every stop on the affable Canadian rocker’s ‘My Effin’ Life In Conversation Tour.’“I’ve never lived my life looking anywhere but forward, which is why I resisted doing this kind of thing for so long,” Lee shared in a statement.“But you need a lot more determination to proceed in the world of music without the comfort of your bandmates, and I can only hope that finishing this book will release me to return to what I do and love best.”Want to see the affable Lee cut it up onstage on the road?You can grab tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Oct.

Geddy Lee toured all over the world with Rush from 1968 all the way to 2018 when the Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band called it quits.Now, five years later, he’s on his first-ever book tour.Lee, 70, is taking his memoir “My Effin’ Life” on the road to venues all over North America up until Dec. 7.He kicked off the 14-show run at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Monday, Nov.

tribute concert in honour of their late drummer, Taylor Hawkins. The band will be celebrating his memory and legacy with concerts at Wembley Stadium and in Los Angeles this September. Dave Grohl and co will be joined by Liam Gallagher, Brian May and special guest, American comedian Dave Chappelle at the home of English football on September 3.

Rush‘ Geddy Lee has opened up on the affect of Taylor Hawkins‘ death on him, saying the Foo Fighters drummer’s passing “broke my heart”.The Foo Fighters drummer died on March 25 at the age of 50 while in his hotel room in Bogotá, Colombia in the middle of a South American tour. The band announced the news in a statement on social media; no cause of death was given.

Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have paid tribute to their “musical brother” Taylor Hawkins in a new post.The Foo Fighters drummer died on Friday night (March 25) at the age of 50. The band announced the news in a statement on social media; no cause of death was given.“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of Taylor Hawkins,” the statement read.

Rush frontman Geddy Lee is set to release a memoir, written as a means of coping with the loss of legendary drummer and longtime friend Neil Peart during the coronavirus pandemic.Writing in an Instagram post this week (September 21), Lee said that while he was “locked down for over a year and a half” he spent lots of time with his family, but struggled to deal with Peart’s death.

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.

Do not expect to see Rush go on without Neil Peart.

It was back in 1980 that Rush released Permanent Waves, which came to be a defining album for the Canadian power trio.