Last time we sat down to talk with Geddy Lee, which feels like an entire geological epoch ago in the light of what has happened to the world since then, it was November 19, 2018. On that occasion we asked Lee if he ever planned to write an autobiography, and his exact answer was “I don’t think my story’s done yet. It feels a bit premature. Maybe I’m kidding myself, but I don’t quite feel like I’m ready to do that yet. I have other ideas for books, but they’re not autobiographical.”
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