Remembering Rush’s Ridiculously Good Drummer Neil Peart With 5 Live Videos

Multiple songs from Rush's vast catalog reach Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart dated Jan. 25 following the death of longtime drummer Neil Peart.On the multi-metric Hot Rock Songs chart (where older tracks are eligible to appear if ranking in the top half and showing a meaningful reason for their resurgence), "Tom Sawyer" bows at No.

That's a whole lot of love

"These touching tributes help to lessen the pain"

In the days following the death of Rush drummer Neil Peart, streams of the band’s songs surged by 776% in the U.S., according to initial reports to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

All through the weekend, tributes and memorials poured in for Rush drummer Neil Peart, who died last week of cancer at 67. The band’s progressive and distinctive yet ever-changing sound made a lasting impact on music fans during their 40-plus-year career, and it also affected pop culture, by tapping the minds of creative types who went on to reference the band in countless films, TV shows, novels, comics and more.

Progressive rock was a major part of Rush's make-up -- including, of course, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Drummers Palmer and Peart had only one short meet-up, but as the "elder statesman" Palmer tells Billboard below, he had a great admiration for the late Peart, finding him to be a kindred spirit.

On Tuesday, January 7, Neil Peart, the pioneering drummer and lyricist for seminal hard rock trio Rush, passed away at 67 years old from brain cancer. After the Canadian musician’s bandmates announced his death several days later, fans mourned Peart by revisiting the group’s music. While listening to their favorite songs, they turned to Genius for a better understanding of the dense lyrics he wrote for the band.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) — Neil Peart, the legendary drummer of Rush, has died, Rolling Stone reports. He was 67. The cause of death, according to a spokesperson, was brain cancer. Peart passed on Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica.

"Being the greatest drummer on the planet was only a part of Neil."

Styx drummer Todd Sucherman's phone began blowing up on Jan. 10 and hadn't stopped throughout the weekend as other drummers, musician pals, family and friends called to talk about the death of Rush's Neil Peart.

When Kenny Aronoff wanted a foreword for his 2016 memoir Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!: The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business, he went right to his friend Neil Peart. "I wanted someone who understood me," Aronoff recalls to Billboard.

Canada, and the rest of the world it seems, really loved Neil Peart.

Neil Peart, the virtuoso-like drummer and highly-literate lyricist for ‘70s Toronto prog-rock band Rush, has died at the age of 67 from brain cancer.

The surviving members of Rush are leading tributes to their iconic drummer and “soul brother” Neil Peart following his death at the age of 67.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has led the tributes to Rush drummer Neil Peart following his death at the age of 67.

Fans of the cult classic Freaks and Geeks know and love Jason Segel's charmingly awkward character, Nick Andopolis, and his dream of becoming a superstar drummer.In the wake of Rush drummer, Neil Peart's, death, we at Billboard are remembering a particularly touching scene in which Andopolis rocks along to a Rush song channeling Peart, whom he calls "the greatest drummer alive" throughout the series.The clip shows the rocker hopeful in his garage, setting the mood with colorful lights and dry

Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Rush and one of the most legendary instrumentalists in rock history, died in California on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer. CBC News first reported the news Friday, citing information from Peart's publicist.

Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart died at 67 in California on Tuesday (Jan. 7) after losing a battle with brain cancer, as CBC News first reported via Perat's publicist on Friday (Jan.

Neil Peart, the drummer from Canadian prog-rock trio Rush, has died aged 67, according to a statement from the band.