He recently stopped touring after being diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and Multiple System Atrophy, which causes loss of coordination and balance, and changes in speech.
FILE – Singer Jack Russell, of the band Great White, performs during a benefit to honor the memory of the band’s guitarist Ty Longley at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif., on April 29, 2003. Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting his band the night 100 people died in a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, has died. He was 63.
FILE – Jack Russell, lead singer of Great White, responds to reporters’ questions as he walks near the scene of a deadly fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. Friday, Feb. 21, 2003. The fire, which killed at least 54 people, resulted from a pyrotechnics display during the first song of Great White’s set.
″It was a horrible tragedy,” Russell told The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 2010. “I wish we could go back in time and erase it. I wish there was something I could’ve done about it. This was one of those things where you don’t see it coming — there’s no way you can possibly see it coming. You just kind of pick yourself up and move on. You take what life gives you.
Russell was a California native who joined Great White in 1981 and found success with its blend of blues and hard rock, before he left to record a solo album. The band split up in 2001, and Russell reformulated a version under his own name.
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