Jack Russell, Great White Singer Who Survived Nightclub Fire, Dies at 63

Jack Russell, who has died aged 63, would have hoped to be remembered simply as the gravel-voiced singer of the popular Grammy-nominated 80s glam metal rock band Great White and hits like Rock Me and Once Bitten Twice Shy.

Sadly, his legacy is more tragic. His spin-off group, Jack Russell’s Great White, was performing at the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, in Feb. 2023 when their pyrotechnics sparked a fire that killed 100 people in one of the worst disasters of its kind in U.S. history.

The deaths included Great White’s guitarist and 230 people were injured.

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