{"id":36097,"date":"2020-01-21T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36097"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:47:04","slug":"rush-sales-increase-by-over-2000-following-neil-pearts-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36097","title":{"rendered":"Rush sales increase by over 2,000% following Neil Peart’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rush<\/a> music marketings has risen by over 2,000% since the death of the band’s drummer Neil Peart, figures have revealed.<\/p>\n

Read more: Neil Peart obituary, 1952 -2 020: The Professor of drums who weaved fantasy into rock<\/a><\/p>\n

The visionary stickman passed away earlier this month( January 7) after quietly battling psyche cancer for the past three years<\/a>, as confirmed by Elliott Mintz, a spokesman for the Peart family.<\/p>\n

Peart’s Rush bandmates, singer\/ bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, shared a statement a few days after this death, calling Peart their “friend, soul friend and bandmate over 45 years, ” and said that he had been “incredibly brave” in his battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive shape of psyche cancer.<\/p>\n

It has now been revealed that in the working day following Peart’s death, torrents of Rush’s sungs surged by 776% in the U.S ., according to initial reports from Nielsen Music\/ MRC Data( via Billboard<\/a> ). <\/p>\n