During the first stop on his book tour, Rush’s Geddy Lee talked about the last time he saw drummer Neil Peart before his death in January 2020.

Lee shared, “[During the final months of his life, Neil] would listen to a different RUSH album and he would be analyzing it and listening to something he hadn’t heard sometimes since we’d made it.”

He continued, “And by the time that he sadly passed, he had listened to pretty much all the work we had done as a band. And the last time I saw him…He wanted to tell me how proud he was of the music we have done together… Some of this stuff is hard to talk about.”

Lee noted, “And it just blew me away that, in that moment, we were sitting on his balcony at his house. And whenever we left him towards the end, we never knew if we’d see him again or not.”

He concluded, “And so we were sitting on his balcony and he was having a smoke, because he loved to have a smoke, like clockwork…But he went on to talk about these songs and what they meant to him and he thought it was very important for me to know that, that our life as a rhythm section together was important to him. So I thought that was beautiful.”