HEAVY HISTORY
22 years ago today (February 20th, 2003), GREAT WHITE played The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island. A pyrotechnics fire started on stage and within a few minutes 100 people were killed and 230 were injured. Guitarist Ty Longley died in the tragic blaze.
TALENT WE LOST
R.I.P. Kurt Donald Cobain (NIRVANA) – February 20th, 1967 – April 5th, 1994 (aged 27)
R.I.P. Ty Longley (GREAT WHITE): September 4th, 1971 – February 20th, 2003 (aged 31)
R.I.P. Walter Carl Becker (STEELY DAN): February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017 (aged 67)
HEAVY BIRTHDAYS
Happy 70th
Jon Brant (CHEAP TRICK) February 20th, 1955
Happy 65th
Kee Marcello (EUROPE) – February 20th, 1960
Happy 58th
Paweł Maciwoda (SCORPIONS) – February 20th, 1967
Happy 57th
Terry Ilous (GREAT WHITE, XYZ) – February 20, 1968
Happy 54th
Andy B Franck (BRAINSTORM) – February 20th, 1971
HEAVY RELEASES
Happy 29th
SEPULTURA’s Roots – February 20th, 1996
IN FLAMES’ The Jester Race – February 20th, 1996
Happy 19th
DISMEMBER’s The God That Never Was – February 20th, 2006
RAUNCHY’s Death Pop Romance – February 20th, 2006
Happy 18th
ABORTED’s Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture – February 20th, 2007
BENEATH THE MASSACRE’s Mechanics of Dysfunction – February 20th, 2007
NOVEMBERS DOOM’s The Novella Reservoir – February 20th, 2007
Happy 16th
HAMMERFALL’s No Sacrifice, No Victory – February 20th, 2009
SUIDAKRA’s Crogacht – February 20th, 2009
Happy 10th
BLACK STAR RIDERS’s The Killer Instinct – February 20th, 2015
SCORPIONS’ Return To Forever – February 20th, 2015
SVARTSOT’s Vaeldet – February 20th, 2015
Happy 13th
AUTOPSY’s All Tomorrow’s Funerals – February 20th, 2012
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