Jack Russell, founding vocalist for ’80s glam metal group Great White, dead at 63

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Jack Russell, founding vocalist for ’80s glam metal group Great White, dead at 63
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Glam rocker Jack Russell, who fronted 1980s metal group Great White, died Thursday surrounded by family and friends at the age of 63.Great White had its heyday in the mid-1980s, with Top 40 singles including “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “The Angel Song.

The latter-day incarnation of Great White is infamously associated with the 2003 inferno at a Rhode Island hard rock music club that started when the group’s stage pyrotechnicsRussell announced last month that he would be retiring from touring after being diagnosed with multiple system atrophy and Lewy body dementia, the latter of which Robin Williams — who died in 2014 — was also a sufferer.

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