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TONY IOMMI Remembers Hearing DIO Sing for First Time: “I Couldn’t Believe What Was Coming Out of His Little Body!”

  • January 1, 2018
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Black Sabbath guitar master Tony Iommi remembered hearing Ronnie James Dio sing for the first time before he joined the band in 1979, telling MI (transcribed by UG):

“When we did [1980’s] ‘Heaven and Hell’ – it was a time when Ozzy had to depart from the band and we had to get somebody else.

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“And then we tried Ronnie. And I never met Ronnie before; actually, I met Ronnie at a party, but that was it.

“And when Ronnie went over to the house – because we used to have a house, we all lived together – and God, when he started singing… Bloody hell… I couldn’t believe what was coming out of his little body. That voice was so good.

“At that point with Ozz we haven’t done much because we were all stoned and out of it, and he was worse than us. He lost interest in it. So we needed something to happen, otherwise we would have just broken up. We had to have somebody new coming – and it was Ronnie.

“As soon as he came in we started working. And I sat down with him and we wrote, he wrote the lyrics and a melody, and I wrote the riffs – it was a great writing team. And of course at that point Geezer had written all the lyrics with Ozz, which is great – Geezer’s great lyricist as well as a great bass player.

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“I mean, Ozzy’s great, I’m not knocking Ozzy, he’s brilliant at what he does. But Ronnie was a different singer altogether.

“We didn’t want another Ozzy clone. We had tapes sent in and one of the guys sounded just like Ozzy. But it wouldn’t have worked doing that. We had to have something that was different. And Ronnie was the one, and he was great.”

Asked on what’s next on his work schedule, Tony replied:

“I’m certainly not gonna give up playing, I don’t think I could ever give up playing. It’s been busy at the moment because we’ve been doing all the stuff for the DVD and the film, and I’ve been fairly involved in that.

“So once that dies off a bit then I’ll get a bit of time to be able to start writing some more material. That’s sort of a plan, I want to come up with maybe a solo album, or do some stuff for films, I don’t know. It’s quite open, really. I’m open for ideas.”

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