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Jack Russell, the lead singer of the Eighties rock band Great White, has died aged 63.

Russell died of Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy. He had only announced his diagnosis last month, when his poor health forced him to retire from touring.

The group’s biggest hits were Ian Hunter cover “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” and “The Angel Song”, released in the late Eighties. Russell briefly quit Great White in 1996 to pursue a solo career, but returned in 1999. By 2001, Great White had split again. A year later, Russell and Kendall hired three new musicians and began touring as Jack Russell’s Great White. While performing at the Station Nightclub in Rhode Island in 2003, the group’s pyrotechnics started a huge fire that killed 100 people, including Great White’s guitarist Ty Longley, and left 230 injured.

In 2006, he began touring with the official Great White band when they reformed with their classic line-up, but left the band in 2009 due to a fall in his bathroom where he cracked two vertebrae and herniated a disc. He had multiple back surgeries and was using a plethora of pain medication. Having fallen into alcoholism, the sudden death of his good friend Jani Lane of Warrant, propelled him to get help and become sober. Fully recovered, he started touring again as Jack Russell's Great White in December 2011 to avoid confusion with the still-touring official Great White band which had continued onward in 2009 with a different singer following Russell's departure.

In 2012, Russell guest-starred on VH1 Classics "That Metal Show", where he revealed his side of the Great White story, and how he was feeling well and ready for more. In 2017, Jack Russell's Great White released their first album titled He Saw It Comin'. In August 2021, Jack Russell's Great White released a sequel to Great White's 1998 tribute album to Led Zeppelin titled Great Zeppelin II: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin. In July 2021, a cover of "Whole Lotta Love" was released.

In January 2024, Russell released a collaboration album with L.A. Guns guitarist Tracii Guns, titled Medusa. This was Russell's final studio recording before his retirement and death.

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Will Jennings 1944 - 2024

RIP

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qmHv4S3pU/

Will co-wrote with Joe some of his best songs: Mountain Time, Woke Up Dreaming, Never Make Your Move Too Soon, Around the Bend, When She dances.

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Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024)

Just annunced over the week-end; Herbie was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician.

Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John, Camel, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Roy Harper, David Essex, Al Kooper, Bryan Ferry, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He also played bass on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. Over the course of his career Flowers contributed to recordings by Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water), Camel (tuba on Nude), David Bowie (Space Oddity, Diamond Dogs), Lou Reed (Transformer, including the two prominent basslines of "Walk on the Wild Side"), Melanie (Candles in the Rain), Roy Harper (Bullinamingvase), David Essex (Rock On), Al Kooper (New York City (You're a Woman)), Bryan Ferry (The Bride Stripped Bare), Harry Nilsson (Nilsson Schmilsson, Son of Schmilsson), Cat Stevens (New Masters, Foreigner), Paul McCartney (Give My Regards to Broad Street), George Harrison (Somewhere in England, Gone Troppo, Brainwashed) and Ringo Starr (Stop and Smell the Roses). He also played bass on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. By the end of the 1970s, Flowers had played bass on an estimated 500 hit recordings.

In 1979, shortly after taking part in the annual A Song For Europe contest, performing "Mr Moonlight" with his group, the Daisies, he became a co-founder of the band Sky which had success in the United Kingdom and Australia. In 1979, shortly after taking part in the annual A Song For Europe contest, performing "Mr Moonlight" with his group, the Daisies, he became a co-founder of the band Sky which had success in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Mouth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULkTCGZju8

Meheeco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63aOFUFz6xA (wait for the bass to kick in at approx 2:30).

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Paul Andrews (17 May 1958 – c.21 October 2024), better known by his stage name Paul Di'Anno.

English heavy metal singer who was the lead vocalist for Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981. In his post-Maiden career, Di'Anno issued numerous albums over the years, as both a solo artist and as a member of such bands as Gogmagog, Di'Anno's Battlezone, Killers, Rockfellas, and more recently, Warhorse.

On 21 October 2024, the label Conquest Music confirmed that Di'Anno had died at his Salisbury home at the age of 66, after "being troubled by severe health issues in recent years that restricted him to performing in a wheelchair"

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Phil Lesh, a founding member of the  Grateful Dead has died at the age of 84, his family have confirmed.

"Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded by his family and full of love," the statement shared on social media read.

The bassist was a member of the rock band alongside Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzman and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan. Formed in 1965 near San Francisco, CA, they were known for an eclectic mix of rock, blues and jazz, but became known for their improvisation during live performanes.

In 1996 he revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and he underwent a liver transplant in 1998 after a hepatitis infection.

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