| Nobody's Hero | |
| Cover: | RUSH nobodyshero.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Rush |
| Album: | Counterparts |
| Released: | April 1994 |
| Recorded: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 4:54 |
| Label: | Anthem (Canada) Atlantic |
| Producer: | Peter Collins, Rush |
| Prev Title: | Stick It Out |
| Prev Year: | 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]
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