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發表於 2012-11-11 16:40
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May 15, 2010 may well have become one of the sadder and darker days in the annals of rock and roll history, if the ongoing Wikipedia web hoax turned out to be the real deal. The Wikipedia site has been altered back and forth repeatedly throughout Sunday morning listing the Ronnie James Dio as deceased. Wikipedia has removed the information and frozen access to it.
His www.ronniejamesdio.com website is overloaded with hits from fans looking for information or confirmation. Certain metal sites are announcing his death to be accurate, including Metal Underground and Metal Insider.
However this has turned out to be a sick and loathsome hoax. After rumors started circulating via the Internet late Saturday that Dio had lost his cancer fight, Blabbermouth.net reached out to Ronnie's wife and manager Wendy Dio, who sent back the following message at approximately 11:35 p.m. PST on Saturday, May 15 / 2:35 a.m. EST on Sunday, May 16:
I am at the hospital and Ronnie has NOT passed away!!!! He is not doing good, but he is not dead.
I will let you know if anything changes.
Thank you for your concern.
Fans can rest a bit easier knowing Ronnie is hanging in there, but he needs our thoughts and prayers now more than ever.
As a fan of heavy metal music's most iconic voice, I will continue to pray for his ongoing recovery, because the passing of the 67-year-old Dio, would be both a world loss and a very personal loss.
Ronnie James Dio is one of a small handful of musicians that have truly changed my life. He has been there throughout my journey as a soundtrack to mark my experiences. From his early days in Elf, through his brilliant work with Rainbow, and perhaps the only voice who could have taken the reigns of Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne's departure, without losing the essence of that legendary band. His own solo career has marked our memory banks with classic hard rock and metal tunes, as well as his enduring work with Heaven and Hell. At the time of his alleged passing Dio is working on yet another album even as he flies from California to Houston every few weeks for chemotherapy.
Dio's voice is arguably "the" voice of rock and roll, or at the very least, heavy metal. It is a perfect blend of raw energy and power. HIs legendary sign of the horns has become a symbol for rockers the world over, and one cannot see that sign and not think of Ronnie, or vice versa.
His showmanship and imagery has been the basis for modern hard rock music, and few rock musicians, especially vocalists would not count him among their influences. Just this year he won another in a long line of awards; this one the Golden Gods Award for Best Vocalist from Revolver Magazine. Such awards have been plentiful throughout his storied career, and all well warranted.
When Black Sabbath went looking for a new singer to replace Ozzy in 1979, Ronnie was in the midst of his own breakup with Rainbow. The metal giants found a perfect match in the diminiutive man with the giant voice. When these events happened, as a fan, I was not thrilled with either occurrence. But Ozzy and Rainbow went on to continued glory and Black Sabbath went from a legendary band stuck in experimentation, mediocrity, and directionless in the late seventies, to an absolute Metal juggernaut. Fronted by Ronnie James Dio, Black Sabbath took on an entirely different attitude and aura. This band had the epic sound of Rainbow with all the “classical” feel taken away. It was streamlined, darker, angrier, and relentless. “Heaven and Hell”, the ground breaking debut of RJD with Sabbath, is still a definition of “heaviness” on its own. 1981’s “Mob Rules” is even a little darker than its predecessor. “The Sign of the Southern Cross” still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Dio era Black Sabbath is as iconic in its own way as Ozzy era Sabbath... but then they broke up and Dio started his own band.
Dio’s 1983 solo debut, Holy Diver, was revolutionary in the growing metal genre and Ronnie was at the forefront of American artists to achieve on U.S. shores what the New Wave of British Heavy Metal had done across the pond. He and his band were elemental in metal's mass success in the 80s.
In 1985, Dio and his band brought together some of the most legendary names in metal music, including Judas Priest, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Queensrÿche, and Blue Öyster Cult for the Hear 'n Aid project, dedicated to bringing famine relief to Africa. The single "We're Stars" raised a million dollars the first year alone.
Ronnie James Dio is a fighter, and he's not done yet!
Long live rock and roll and Ronnie James Dio!!! \m/ |
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