Released 1994 Genre Progressive rock | Recorded 1993 Length 4:54 | |
Label Anthem Records (Canada)
Atlantic Records Writer(s) Neil Peart (lyrics), Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson (music) |
"Nobody's Hero" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released as the third single from their 1993 album Counterparts. The first stanza deals with the AIDS-related death of a homosexual man named Ellis, a friend of Neil Peart when Peart lived in London. After the chorus, the second stanza speaks of a girl who was murdered in Peart's hometown, Port Dalhousie. The girl is rumoured to have been Kristen French, one of Paul Bernardo's victims.
It inspired the title for the paper Nobody's Hero: On Equal Protection, Homosexuality, and National Security by published in The George Washington Law Review.
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