From 1980, when he was five albums and several tours into his career as the drummer for the progressive rock band Rush, until he passed in 2020, Neil Peart appeared on the cover of Modern Drummer Magazine ten times. No other drummer has come close to appearing so frequently on the front of any drum publication, let alone the world’s most recognized one.
This first installment in Modern Drummer magazine’s Legends book series collects all nine of Peart’s cover stories, plus the complete contents of his May 2020 Modern Drummer tribute issue.
Highlights include:
analyses of Neil’s performances on every Rush studio album
a survey of the evolution of his famous live drumkits
