Geddy Lee Shares Touching Story About Robert Plant
Geddy Lee has shared a number of stories during his book tour in support of his memoir, My Effin’ Life. However, the story he shared about Robert Plant reaching out to him will truly tug at the heartstrings.
Per Classic Rock, Lee detailed during the Los Angeles stop of the book tour hosted by actor/musician Jack Black. Lee said he and Plant first met while the two were vacationing in Morocco at the same time during the mid ’90s. They met for dinner and got along really well.
Cut to 1998. Plant reached out to Rush’s management to get into contact with Lee. Even though Rush’s management thought it was a prank, they forwarded the message to Lee along with a phone number Plant left. It turns out that Plant wanted to invite Lee to his show with Jimmy Page in Toronto.
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He also wanted to touch base with the Rush singer/bassist since the band was on hiatus. The five-year hiatus of Rush began after Neil Peart’s 19-year-old daughter, Selena Taylor, was killed in a car crash in August 1997. Less than a year later, Peart’s longtime partner, Jacqueline Taylor, died from cancer in June 1998.
When recalling talking to Plant, Lee said he told the Led Zeppelin singer that he didn’t know if he would be up for going to the gig just shortly after Peart lost his partner.
Lee noted, “And [Plant] said, ‘Look, I’ve had my own share of loss, and you have to get on with your life, and sooner is better than later. I want you to come down, call Alex [Lifeson] up, just come down.'”
Lee said he and Lifeson ended up taking up Plant on his offer and that he and Page “couldn’t have been nicer to us.” He noted the gesture “really lifted us, at a moment when we could have used the lifting.”