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Ronnie James Dio's widow has claimed the late metal legend penned his 1983 hit 'Holy Diver' for Black Sabbath originally. The seminal musician - who died from stomach cancer aged 67 in 2010 - replaced ...

When 40-year-old Ronnie James Dio stormed out of Black Sabbath in 1982, finally defeated by the rampant drug abuse of guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler, the world’s greatest heavy metal ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ronnie James Dio, the pint-sized heavy metal singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, died on Sunday, five months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, his wife ...