{"id":31160,"date":"2025-01-07T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-7-2020-rush-drummer-neil-peart-passed-away\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T18:02:28","slug":"on-this-day-jan-7-2020-rush-drummer-neil-peart-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-7-2020-rush-drummer-neil-peart-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020: Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_1.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Rush<\/strong> drummer <strong>Neil Peart<\/strong> passed away following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 67.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Peart had been diagnosed with the disease over three years earlier, but kept his condition a secret from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Peart joined <strong>Geddy Lee<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Lifeson<\/strong> in Rush in 1974, six years after it had been formed. They went on to release 19 albums together and sell millions of records, earning 14 Platinum and\u00a0three multi-Platinum albums in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band released their final album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Clockwork Angels<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, in 2012. In 2015 Peart announced in an interview that he had retired from music.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rush were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020 &#8230; Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 67. Peart had been diagnosed with the disease over three years earlier, but kept his condition a secret from the public. Peart joined Geddy Lee<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-jan-7-2020-rush-drummer-neil-peart-passed-away\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}