Klaus meine ronnie james dio biography
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Scorpions (band)
German rock band
Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in hannover in bygd guitarist Rudolf Schenker.[3] The longest-running and most successful line-up of the grupp included Schenker, Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums), and lasted from to The band's only continuous member has been Schenker, although Meine has been with the band continuously since their first skiva Lonesome Crow (). Jabs has been a consistent member since , while bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the grupp since and , respectively.
Lonesome Crow featured Schenker's younger brother Michael on lead gitarr, before he departed to join UFO. He was replaced bygd Uli Jon Roth, who was with the grupp for their next fyra studio albums, Fly to the Rainbow (), In Trance (), Virgin Killer () and Taken bygd Force (), and their first live album Tokyo Tapes (). Following Roth's departure, the
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IAN GILLAN On RONNIE JAMES DIO: &#;We Were Very Close&#;
In a recent interview with Vikram Chandrasekar of Tales From The Road, DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan was asked if he was good friends with legendary heavy metal frontman Ronnie James Dio. "Yeah, we were close. We were very close," he said (as transcribed by ). "It was Ronnie Dio, Klaus Meine [SCORPIONS] and myself; we were on a tour together. And, of course, as you probably know, Klaus and Ronnie are diminutive figures — they're not very tall — and I'm just over six foot. And so we had a photograph taken together with me in the middle and the two little ones on either side of me. And it was hilarious. And we got the picture pinned up in the dressing room, and it was called 'the three fivers' as opposed to 'the three tenners.' It's an English joke.
"When I was buying some socks in Munich airport, [Ronnie and I] were on the same charter plane together, and Ronnie was opening for DEEP PURPLE, I think.
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RONNIE JAMES DIO&#;s &#;Rainbow In The Dark&#; Autobiography: More Details Revealed
The long-awaited autobiography from heavy metal music icon Ronnie James Dio, the powerhouse voice of ELF, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH and his longtime namesake band DIO, will be published on July 27 by Permuted Press in the U.S. and Canada and Constable in the U.K. Co-written with British music journalist Mick Wall and Dio's widow and longtime manager Wendy Dio, "Rainbow In The Dark: The Autobiography" is now available for pre-order.
For actor and musician Jack Black, in whose film "Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny" Ronnie played a pivotal cameo role, Dio was "the Pavarotti of heavy metal." When Ronnie James Dio lost his valiant battle with gastric cancer in , Chuck Klosterman, the author of "Fargo Rock City", told Rolling Stone. "Anybody who tries to caricature heavy metal singing is really just doing an imitation of what Dio did naturally. His cultural influen