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"Nobody's Hero" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released as the third single from their 1993 album Counterparts.[1] The first verse deals with the AIDS-related death of a gay man named Ellis Booth, a friend of Neil Peart when Peart lived in London. After the chorus, the second verse speaks of a girl who was murdered in Peart's hometown, Port Dalhousie and was the daughter of a family friend, as remembered by Peart in Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me! The girl is rumoured to have been Kristen French, one of Paul Bernardo's victims.[2]

"Nobody's Hero"
Single by Rush
from the album Counterparts
Released	April 1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	4:54
Label	Anthem (Canada) Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Neil Peart (lyrics), Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson (music)
Producer(s)	Peter Collins, Rush
Rush singles chronology
"Cold Fire" (1994) "Nobody's Hero" (1994) "Animate" (1994)

It inspired the title for the paper Nobody's Hero: On Equal Protection, Homosexuality, and National Security published in The George Washington Law Review.[3]

Track listing

Personnel

• Geddy Lee – Bass, lead vocals
• Alex Lifeson – Acoustic & electric guitars
• Neil Peart – Drums, percussion
• John Webster - Keyboards

with

• Michael Kamen – String arrangements & conducting

See also

• List of Rush songs

References

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