Died On This Date (February 5, 1998) Tim Kelly / Slaughter

themusicsover February 5, 2010 0 Comments

Tim Kelly
January 13, 1963 – February 5, 1998

Tim Kelly is best remembered as lead guitarist for early ’90s  multi-platinum metal band, Slaughter.  As one if its original members, Kelly played on such hits as “Up All Night” and “Fly To The Angels.”  Kelly taught himself to play the guitar as a child and by the time he was middle-school age, he was playing in bands.  In 1988, he joined up with Mark Slaughter and Dana Strum who had both recently left the Vinnie Vincent Invasion to start their own band, Slaughter.    Over the next few years they released a handful of albums that sold in excess of four million albums combined.  On February 5, 1998, Kelly was killed in a head-on collision with a big rig.  The truck’s driver was under the influence of drugs and was later sentenced to prison.  Tim Kelly was 35 years old when he died.

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