Black Sabbath are rightly enshrined as one of the forefathers of heavy metal. The band’s original line-up – singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – ...

Most outstanding was 25-year old Jake E Lee, who after being rejected by Dio would join Ozzy Osbourne’s band. “He was a great guitar player,” Appice recalls. “But Ronnie wanted to make the ...

However, Dio and Appice did return to Black Sabbath in 1992 for Dehumanizer. Both the Dio and Osbourne chapters define Black Sabbath’s long career. They offer intrigue to a band that helped ...

Osbourne embarked on an initially discredited solo career, only to turn the tables on his former bandmates (who had enjoyed an immediate rebirth with his replacement, Ronnie James Dio, before ...

But Dio’s big break arrived in 1975, when he was hired to front Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow for a trio of seminal studio LPs. He then replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath for a pair of ...