Geddy Lee, singer and bassist from the rock group Rush, will speak in Charlotte on Monday evening at an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event. His late parents, Mary and Morris Weinrib ...

For nearly half a century Geddy Lee and the band Rush cultivated a devoted fanbase with multiple platinum records, classic FM hits, and tours around the world. That part is well known. What you ...

Songs in the key of LifesonWhen the son of Yugoslav immigrants, Alex Lifeson née Živojinović, and a local lad from a close-knit Jewish family, Gary ‘Geddy’ Lee Weinrib, met at Fisherville High School ...

He was given the full name ‘Gary Lee Weinrib’, but his first name morphed into ‘Geddy’ due to how his grandmother pronounced it, which ended up sticking. We shouldn’t really expect anything less from ...

The group were formed as a trio in 1968 by guitarist Alex Lifeson, drummer John Rutsey – de facto leader – and bassist and frontman Jeff Jones. Before too long, Jones suggested that Lifeson hire ...

Geddy Lee Geddy Lee: The frontman of the Canadian rock band Rush experienced the loss of some of his family members during the Holocaust, but his parents, Morris and Mary Weinrib, managed to survive.

Why “Geddy Lee” as a stage name? It’s complicated, but, as he explains, in his desperation to assimilate into a less ethnic world, he didn’t think Weinrib sounded rock ‘n’ roll enough.

Indeed, the first half of My Effin’ Life focuses on his parents. It was the offer of a piece of bread that first brought Morris Weinrib and Mary Rubinstein together in 1939. Determined to help ...

In 1995, Lee accompanied his mother, Mary Weinrib, to Germany — and then to Poland, where she was born — for a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Miles' article caused serious offence to the band, not least to Geddy Lee, whose Polish parents, Manya (Mary) Rubenstein and Morris Weinrib, were both liberated from Nazi concentration camps ...

"My Effin' Life" begins with Lee trying to make sense of himself, a formidable task for anyone who's tried to define Rush's experimental roots. Born Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, the Toronto-raised ...