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| January 11, 2020

Love remains, though everything is lost | Philip Wilding | Writer, Journalist & Radio Producer (Philip Wilding | Writer, Journalist & Radio Producer)

Memories fall towards you sometimes, like brown leaves out of the blue of the sky. The thunder of drums coming through the wall backstage at a long defunct outdoor arena on the outskirts of Nashville. The eve of the R30 tour, myself, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee mid-interview, I’d already spoken to Neil in his dressing room across the hall, seated next to a drum-kit the size of which can best be described as ominous.

Beautiful and moving tribute to Neil Peart. I’m still coming to terms with this.

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| January 11, 2020

Rush's Neil Peart: unassuming, thunderous drummer who became a music legend (The Guardian)

The Rush drummer, who has died at 67, was worshipped by fans and beloved by friends

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| January 11, 2020

Chrïs on Twitter (Twitter)

“There’s not an ounce of fat on Peart’s lyrics. The revisions are palpable, the attention to detail and the rise and fall in the cadence and the musicality of the words are unmatched in the rock lexicon. Wheels within wheels in a spiral array.”

One of the many great things about his lyrics is that you could see his view of the world change album to album. He became more humanist, less rampant individualist.

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| January 9, 2020

Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ (the Guardian)

When he was at the centre of the US counterculture, he lived in terror of his bandmate. Yet after the singer’s death, he fought ferociously to protect his legacy. But, he says, he still regrets not calling out Morrison on his abusive relationships with women

This is really good. I’ve always really admired John Densmore’s refusal to sell out to advertisers.

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| January 8, 2020

I see someone’s trying to start a boycott of the Mail/Sun etc again. People buy those rags because they like the contents. What’s the point of boycotting something you wouldn’t buy anyway?

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| January 1, 2020

Seamus Heaney on Twitter (Twitter)

“So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.”

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| December 29, 2019

Ian McMillan on Twitter (Twitter)

“#RIPAlasdairGray A writer who understood that the pen is an adjunct to the tongue and a conduit of the dancing mind, and an artist who shook the world until it flowed like a river of colour.”

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| December 28, 2019

Sid Smith on Twitter (Twitter)

“Resolution My future is finite Rapidly receding Every passing day. I’ve resolved to leave Outrage and anger to those with the Time and inclination. I’m spending whatever remains With music, love, and beauty, Changing my world With the latter rather Than the former.”

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