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Although his trademark tales of “dungeons and dragons” may have single-handedly inspired Spinal Tap (even more specifically, Tap’s overblown epic “Stonehenge”), Ronnie James Dio was unquestionably among heavy metal’s most talented and instantly identifiable vocalists. Given birth to Ronald Wayne Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on July 10, 1942, the …

Raunchy, satirical, politics, and profane, Swamp Dogg is among the great cult numbers of 20th hundred years American music. The creation of Jerry Williams, Jr., an R&B manufacturer and songwriter from the ’60s, Swamp Dogg suit simply no tidy category. In sheer musical conditions, Swamp Dogg is certainly pure Southern …

As business lead singer of Manfred Mann from 1963 to 1966, Paul Jones was one of the better vocalists from the English Invasion, in a position to put more than blues, R&B, and high-energy pop/rock and roll with an attractive mixture of polish and spirit. That produced the mediocre, sometimes …