Geddy Lee Announces New Memoir, Release Set for 2022

Geddy Lee announced the pending release of a memoir currently set for Fall 2022.

Lee shared the news via Instagram where his handle is @geddyimages, which still remains one of the best celebrity social media handles ever, but we disgress.

The Instagram post's lengthy caption reads, in part, "My friend and collaborator on the 'Big Beautiful Book of Bass,' Daniel Richler, saw how I was struggling in the aftermath of Neil [Peart]'s passing, and tried coaxing me out of my blues with some funny tales from his youth, daring me to share my own in return. So I did—reluctantly at first, but then remembering, oh yeah, I like wrestling with words. It's a less physical version of arguing with musical notes, without a Ricky doubleneck breaking my back! And soon my baby-step stories were becoming grownup chapters. Being the nuclear obsessive that I am, I'd write and re-write them, reassessing perspectives in the narrative not just by scouring my memory banks but my diaries and piles of photo albums too. I was piecing together a mystery of a different kind."

Lee continued, "I'd then send these improved and even illustrated stories to Daniel, who'd clean up some of the grammar and remove a lot of the swearing (I love to f---ing swear), and presto! In a voice that sounded, well, just like me, a presentable, epic-length account of my life on and off the stage was taking shape: my childhood, my family, the story of my parents' survival, my travels and all sorts of nonsense I've spent too much time obsessing over. And Daniel said, 'I think you're writing a book. An actual memoir, in fact.' To which I replied, 'Hmm… I guess I am.'"

Lee concluded, "I'm rounding third on this as-of-yet untitled memoir, which will be published by HarperCollins, edited by Noah Eaker, and is scheduled for release in Fall 2022."