Ronnie James Dio

[Filo]

RIP to one of heavy metal`s most powerful voices Ozzy Osbourne was a hard act to follow fronting Black Sabbath, but Ronnie filled those shoes

[RoversAlias]

Very sad to hear of his death, he was great in Sabbath and what I've heard of him in Rainbow and Dio is also fantastic.

R.I.P. to a heavy metal legend.

[Filo]

Richie Blackmore head hunted him from Elf to form Rainbow, thats now 2 members of Rainbow that have gone, the other being the great Cozy Powell

[Thinwhiteduke]

Echo all of the above.

'Holy Diver' is one of the all time classic Metal albums, and Dio had one of the most powerful voices going, you'd struggle to find a nicer bloke as well.

Glad he's been mentioned here, when you see some of the so called 'celebrities' getting mass coverage in the National Press / News when they pass away, (Jade Goody anyone), yet a legend like Dio barely gets a passing mention.  :angry:

R.I.P. to the legend

[knockers]

Dio was great live. Saw him a couple of times in the 80's and he was due to do a few of the festivals this summer with Geezer Butler and a couple of the other old guys, whose names a can't remember.
He also cancelled a tour recently due to his stomach cancer that local band Black spiders were going to support him on.

[Crowle Rover]

First became aware of Ronnie via Rainbows \"Long Live Rock n Roll\" album(I'll dig the vinyl out tonight)
 Did an excellent job replacing Ozzy in Sabbath and Heaven and hell is a true classic
 Saw Dio at Donington 87 in the pissing rain and they were great
 In interviews you saw and heard he always came across as a genuinely nice guy.Check out the dvd \"Metal-A  
 Headbangers Tale
 It says a lot that he'll probably only get a few collum inches when talentless nobodies(Goody/Gately) are
 subject to gushing 16 page tributes
 R.I.P Ronnie