Neil Peart’s sister opens up about his death
nme.comRush drummer more than three and a half years ago.The drummer passed on January 7, 2020, after a three-year battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.
He died in Santa Monica, California at the age of 67. The band announced Peart’s passing three days later.Speaking with Kelly Barrett on her show Etcetera With Kelly Barrett, Burkholder reflected on the passing of her brother. “We had three and a half years to prepare, so we knew it was coming,” she said. “And then once it happened, we had that week of radio silence where we couldn’t tell anybody.
And then we got — I think we had 10 minutes’ notice before it was going live to the world. So we had 10 minutes to tell everyone that we hadn’t told in three and a half years that, ‘Sorry, we lied.
Everything’s not okay.’ So, yeah, it was a really hard — that week was the hardest week that we went through because we knew and couldn’t share it.”A post shared by Rush (@rush)After being asked if fans and other people were respectful of the family’s privacy at that time, Burkholder responded: “Oh, our messages were blowing up.
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