the DiRT
RIP
Thank you and good night.
Alan Lewis
Died June 23, 2021
Tributes have been paid to the publishing executive responsible for launching Kerrang! Lewis, then the editor of Sounds, conceived the magazine along with Geoff Barton 40 years ago. During his career he also edited NME and Record Mirror, and helped to launch Loaded and Uncut. The 76-year-old had been battling Parkinson’s disease and cancer.
Johnny Solinger
August 7, 1965 – June 26, 2021
The former Skid Row singer has died at the age of 55, a month after announcing that he was suffering from liver failure. Texan-born Solinger joined the band when they reunited without Sebastian Bach in 1999, and appeared on the studio albums Thickskin and Revolutions Per Minute.