“If Dio goes, we all go.” I posted that statement on my Facebook page a few days before Ronnie James Dio passed away. I remember hearing that Heaven and Hell, the reformed and renamed Dio-fronted version of Black Sabbath, cancelled all their upcoming tour dates a few weeks earlier. There were occasional, mostly negative reports on Dio's health leading up to the day as well. Increasingly it became clear he wouldn’t be around much longer.

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