He chronicled his cathartic journey in his 2002 book, “Ghost Rider: Travels of the Healing Road.” Peart remarried in 2000 and the band resumed recording and touring the following year. The band took a nearly four year hiatus while Peart healed by traveling some 55,000 miles across North and Central America on his motorcycle by himself. In 1997, tragedy struck when Peart’s daughter Selena was killed in a car accident, and his wife Jacqueline died from cancer just 10 months later. While their commercial popularity declined after the early 1980s they remained a hard-working and extremely popular live act with a deeply dedicated fan base that regularly filled arenas. Over the next 15 years, Rush admirably declined to become a heritage act and continually challenged themselves and overhauled their sound, dropping the hard rock and high vocals that marked their early material and pursuing more keyboard-based arrangements and different musical styles. “Necromancer,” a conceptual song on their 1975 album “Caress of Steel,” paved the way for the full-blown 1976 concept album “2112,” a dystopian tale about a future society without music.
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The addition of Peart, whose technical chops and use of melodic percussion instruments - vibes, glockenspiels, chimes and later synthesized percussion - vastly expanded the band’s musical palette, and he soon assumed the role of the band’s lyricist as well he was famously influenced by science-fiction and particularly Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.” The band embarked on a series of increasingly elaborate albums whose lyrics and storylines were as sophisticated as their growing musical ambitions. He joined Rush in 1974, after the band’s cofounders, bassist/singer Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, had released one self-titled album. Widely considered one of the most innovative drummers in rock history, Peart was famous for his state-of-the-art drum kits - more than 40 different drums were not out of the norm - precise playing style and onstage showmanship. Peart passed on Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica. The cause of death, according to a spokesperson, was brain cancer.
Neil Peart, the legendary drummer of Rush, has died, according to an announcement from the band.
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