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Jack Russell, one of the founding members of Eighties band Great White, has died. He was 63. In a social media post Thursday, Russell’s family announced that the glam metal singer died “peacefully” surrounded by his family and friends. Russell died of Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy, his …

This story was originally published in the April 3, 2003, issue of “Rolling Stone.” JACK RUSSELL MIGHT have piled on a few pounds, but his blues-rock band Great White, twenty-five years old, was thriving in the winter of 2003. Guitarist Mark Kendall had quit drinking — which had nearly killed …