Dio Rainbow In The Dark
As Ronnie James Dio told me a year before he died in 2010: “To be in one world-famous band is more than most musicians can ever dream. To be in two is almost being greedy. But to find yourself being a success for a third time, especially when it’s with your own band this time, well, I consider myself extremely fortunate.”
Indeed few would have predicted that Dio would survive being ousted from Rainbow, in 1979, for “refusing to sing commercial pop-rock rubbish like Since You Been Gone”. He had, after all been the singer on one of the all-time classic albums, Rainbow Rising.
When it was then announced that he would be replacing Ozzy Osbourne in Black, another album now regarded as a monumental rock classic.
