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Ronnie James Dio

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 …

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