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Kelly Johnson
England
Real name: Bernadette Jean Johnson
Country: England (EN)
Born: June 20, 1958 — Died: July 15, 2007
Cause of death: Spinal cancer
A fitting farewell to Kelly Johnson, the phenomenal lead guitarist of Girlschool, who died yesterday after a six-year battle with cancer of the spine. She was 49. Johnson will always be remembered for writing metal classics like “Hit and Run”, “Kick It Down” and “Yeah Right”, which made Girlschool one of the most punk and ferocious bands to explode in the late 1970s. /New Wave of British Heavy Metal of the early 1980s.