Sharon was working for her father, Don Arden, one of the most fearsome managers in the music business.
Wendy, meanwhile, had struck up a friendship with Sharon Arden, soon to become Sharon Osbourne.
But at the same time, he remembers the excitement he felt about starting a new chapter for the iconic band with a song that would later appear on 1980’s platinum success, Heaven And Hell. In an exclusive excerpt from Rolling Stone, Dio recounts how Sharon Osbourne introduced him to Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and reveals the doubts he had initially about replacing Ozzy Osbourne. We're not gonna shove something out because it's got Ronnie's name on it that's not what Ronnie would want, and I would never do that to Ronnie." It has to be something that Ronnie would put out. So he's going through the stuff, and he will listen to those songs and tell me if those are what Ronnie would approve. We are having it all itemized and categorized, and Wyn Davis - who was Ronnie's engineer, who loved Ronnie to death and Ronnie loved working with him - he's the only person I really trust to do that. Craig (Goldy / former Dio guitarist) and Ronnie were working together on a song and it got pushed to the side, and I think the last thing Ronnie was working on was with Doug Aldrich (former Dio guitarist). Wendy Dio: "Ronnie was working on a song with Jimmy Bain (former Dio / Rainbow bassist) before Jimmy passed away. Wendy Dio guested on LiveSigning to discuss the book, and during the conversation she revealed there are three unreleased songs in the Dio vault that may see the light of day at some point.
Co-written with British music journalist Mick Wall and Dio’s widow and long-time manager Wendy Dio, Rainbow In The Dark: The Autobiography is now available. The long-awaited autobiography from heavy metal music icon, Ronnie James Dio, the powerhouse voice of Elf, Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his long-time bespoke band Dio, was released on July 27 by Permuted Press in the US and Canada and Constable in the UK.
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