When 40-year-old Ronnie James Dio stormed out of Black Sabbath in 1982, finally defeated by the rampant drug abuse of guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, the world’s greatest heavy metal ...
On the anniversary of Ronnie James Dio's death, celebrate the man's extensive catalog! This Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of Ronnie James Dio’s death due to stomach cancer. Dio, born Ronald ...
When he left Sabbath, though, Dio pulled off his most amazing feat yet: his first solo album, Holy Diver. In a year when both ...
Rainbow, the band formed by Ritchie Blackmore, had a dynamic journey from heavy metal roots to a renaissance in the 80s, ...
Ronnie James Dio was born Ronald James Padavona on July 10, 1942 in Portsmouth. His parents moved to Cortland, New York when Ronnie was very young. He started playing the trumpet at the age of five ...
The iron-lunged Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladonna always stood out among his thrash peers both for his impressive range and the unerring commitment to melody in his power-metal inspired vocals.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ronnie James Dio, the pint-sized heavy metal singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, died on Sunday, five months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, his wife ...
More than 15 years after the death of heavy metal icon Ronnie James Dio, his widow and friends are continuing the fight against cancer on his behalf. On Thursday, Wendy Dio and her friends and ...
You know, if you looked at his body of work in recent years, you wouldn’t be too far off to say Joey Belladonna is a cover band vocalist that just so happens to front Anthrax and not the other way ...