Jack Russell, Great White Founder Dead at 63.
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Aug 16 '24
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''Great White peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s with a cover of "Once Bitten, Twice Shy." Russell was performing with his spinoff band, Jack Russell's Great White, at the packed West Warwick club when the band's pyrotechnics ignited soundproofing foam in the walls of the building.''
Station nightclub fire scene, viewed from above. David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
The fire was one of the deadliest in U.S. history. In the beginning of the autobiography published just weeks before his death, Russell offered an apology to the families of the victims.''
"I'm sorry for every gentle embrace of love no longer possible and that you dread every twentieth of February for more reasons than ice and snow. That birthdays and sunsets and good news are things you cannot share. That plans and dreams were not fulfilled. That hell walks with you," Russell wrote. "I'm sorry that it wasn't me."
Jack Russell speaks to the media outside the former Station Nightclub in 2003.AP
Jack Russell, lead singer of Great White who survived the Station Nightclub Fire, dies at 63
Jack Russell, the frontman of rock band Great White who survived the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island, has died.
www.cbsnews.com
The fire was one of the deadliest in U.S. history. In the beginning of the autobiography published just weeks before his death, Russell offered an apology to the families of the victims.''
"I'm sorry for every gentle embrace of love no longer possible and that you dread every twentieth of February for more reasons than ice and snow. That birthdays and sunsets and good news are things you cannot share. That plans and dreams were not fulfilled. That hell walks with you," Russell wrote. "I'm sorry that it wasn't me."