THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Stewart Copeland had been close with Neil Peart for years and had never once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson — until a documentary camera crew put them in a room together *. *Neil Peart: No One's Disciple* hits CBC on Sept. 23, and it gets Lee and Lifeson running Rush material with Copeland, Chad Smith and Danny Carey behind the kit *†.
THE DETAILS
- CBC premieres the film Sept. 23 *†
- Lee and Lifeson perform Rush songs with Carey (Tool), Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Copeland (The Police) †‡
- Smith and Carey already played with Lee and Lifeson at the second Taylor Hawkins memorial concert in September 2022 *
- Traces Peart's early gigs in Canada and London through his rise as one of rock's most acclaimed drummers *†
- Includes archive Peart interviews and conversations between Lee and Lifeson *
- CBC calls it a window into "one of rock's most enigmatic percussionists" *
- Peart retired from touring in 2015 and died in 2020 at 67 after a private battle with brain cancer *†
WHY IT MATTERS
ANNIVERSARY — this is the tribute Peart's catalog earned, arriving while Rush tour North America with Anika Nilles on drums †. The surprise is Copeland: a lifelong friend who never sat in with Rush until a documentary made it happen *.