He first began playing trumpet and then guitar and bass in local bands at parties, bars and clubs while still in high school, surviving life-changing setbacks-among them the loss of his bandmate and best friend in a car accident that put his own life in jeopardy. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and raised in an Italian-American family in the upstate New York town of Cortland, his journey to international fame was hardly pre-ordained.
Ronnie James Dio had begun writing the manuscript several years before being diagnosed with cancer. “Anybody who tries to caricature heavy metal singing is really just doing an imitation of what Dio did naturally. Co-written with British music journalist Mick Wall and Dio’s widow and long-time manager Wendy Dio, Rainbow In The Dark: The Autobiography is now available for pre-order.įor actor and musician Jack Black, in whose 2006 film Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny Ronnie played a pivotal cameo role, Dio was “the Pavarotti of heavy metal.” When Ronnie James Dio lost his valiant battle with gastric cancer in 2010, Chuck Klosterman, the author of Fargo Rock City, told Rolling Stone. The long-awaited autobiography from heavy metal music icon, Ronnie James Dio, the powerhouse voice of Elf, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his long-time bespoke band Dio, will be published on July 27 by Permuted Press in the US and Canada and Constable in the UK.
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