But when Sabbath turned south, Ronnie just decided to form his own band, hence Dio started ... also with Roger Glover in my ...

Ronnie James Dio is one of heavy metal’s most legendary ... boogie-woogie-driven classic rock of his early ‘70s rock band, Elf. But Dio’s big break arrived in 1975, when he was hired to ...

But in keeping with the convention already set forth in this countdown, let’s take the votes at face value and assume those who penned “Dio” into the annals of heavy metal history were talking solely ...

Rainbow originally started out with band members from Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band, Elf, but Blackmore fired everyone except Dio. He was notorious for hiring and firing musicians and ...

As the former figurehead of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his decades-spanning solo band, Ronnie James Dio was one of the finest and most identifiable voices in all of heavy metal. In fact, nowadays ...

On Thursday, the singer's widow, Wendy Dio, and her friends and supporters will hold the annual Bowl for Ronnie celebrity tournament at Pinz Bowling Center in Studio City.

He also had stints fronting Elf, Rainbow with ... Dio had other plans. “Ronnie didn’t want to take a break,” she says, adding that he had planned to take his band Dio back out on the road ...