Too bad Santa won’t be able to help out with this one, ’cause you know you gotta read this book!
Rush bassist/singer Geddy Lee is putting out “72 Stories” thru HarperCollins on May 13, 2025! The book previously made it into winning bidders’ hands as a gift at the 2023 auction of some of Lee’s extensive baseball memorabilia collection.
Lee talked to Illinois Entertainment last year and touched on the book, “It’s a collection of stories from some of my favourite items in my collection. Maybe I’ll release it on opening day next year; I don’t know. I’m going to include a copy of the book to the winning bidders of those particular items in my sale that are also featured in this book. I’ll give them a signed copy.’
He added, “(The book) came together in a relatively painless way. I wrote it with my co-writer Daniel Richler. Richard Sibbald, who shot the ‘Big Beautiful Book Of Bass’, took the photographs. They’re absolutely stunning… So, there is a book, and I’m really pleased with it. I’m trying to get it printed now, in time for the auction. It’s called ’72 Stories From The Collection Of Geddy Lee’.”
Lee’s memoir, “My Effin’ Life”, was also released via HarperCollins, in November 2023. A great read, btw – you read about Geddy’s parents’ traumatic experiences as teenagers in concentration camps in World War II, intimate stories about about his friends and bandmates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart — and Lee’s deep mourning of Peart’s passing.
Heartbreaking stuff, really.
The now-71-year-old Lee took “My Effin’ Life” on tour, at venues across North America in November and December 2023.
Rush’s last tour wrapped up on August 1, 2015 at the Forum in Los Angeles. At the time, Peart said he wanted to retire while he was still able to play well, and a desire to spend more time at home with his daughter.
Don’t you just love this sorta thing, the book, I mean? Getting to know the musicians you admire, and what drives them outside of music. Geddy Lee is likely one of the biggest baseball fans on the planet. And knowing that is kinda neat, right?
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