He later formed Heaven and Hell with Sabbath's axe-slayer Tony Iommi.Īnd during an interview on 'Full Metal Jackie' to mark what would have been Dios 80th birthday (10.07.22), his wife Wendy revealed 'Holy Diver' and 'Don't Talk to Strangers' were both written by Dio when he was still in Sabbath.īoth tracks appeared on Dios debut studio album 'Holy Diver'. He quit in 1982 to form Dio and took their drummer Vinny Appice with him. The musician - who died from stomach cancer aged 67 in 2010 - replaced Ozzy Osbourne as frontman of the 'Paranoid' group after he was fired by his bandmates in 1979.ĭio appeared on three Sabbath studio albums, 1980's 'Heaven and Hell', 1981's 'Mob Rules' and 1992's 'Dehumanizer (1992). Meanwhile, Wendy recently claimed Dio penned his 1983 hit 'Holy Diver' for Black Sabbath originally. However, it underwent some changes after the first shows of the 2017 'Dio Returns' tour, before the tour resumed in 2019.ĭio band members Craig Goldy, Simon Wright, Scott Warren, Bjorn Englen performed alongside the hologram.
The hologram was created by the firm Eyellusion and made its debut at the Wacken Open Air festival in 2016. 'Cause I think that'll be something that kids will really wanna see - stuff that they've never seen before as well." I've got all this video footage from Rainbow and some Sabbath and Dio and even some Elf stuff, and I wanna put that together with a live band and take that out. It was 50/50 - some people hated it some people loved it. Speaking on 'The Rockman Power Hour', Wendy said: "It was an experiment that we did. However, the music manager has another idea in the pipeline to bring Dio to audiences beyond the grave. The late seminal artist’s widow Wendy has insisted there are no plans for the hologram shows, which enabled fans of the heavy metal legend to see the star's music performed with a digital likeness of the former Black Sabbath and Rainbow frontman, to return after they were met with a split reaction from fans and critics. Ronnie James Dios hologram show was an "experiment" and likely won't be repeated.
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