Nobody's Hero (song)

"Nobody's Hero"
Single by Rush
from the album Counterparts
ReleasedApril 1994
Recorded1993
GenreProgressive rock
Length4:54
LabelAnthem (Canada)
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)Neil Peart (lyrics), Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson (music)
Producer(s)Peter Collins, Rush
Rush singles chronology
"Stick It Out"
(1994)
"Nobody's Hero"
(1994)

"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]

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]

  1. ^ "Nobody's Hero by Rush". songfacts.com. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  2. ^ Defnael, Aka (2015-12-05). CAMION BLANC: RUSH Archive (in French). CAMION BLANC. ISBN 9782357797758.
  3. ^ "Nobody's Hero: On Equal Protection, Homosexuality, and National Security". The George Washington Law Review. 62. 1993–1994.