RIP, RJD

Sunday, May 16, 2010


I am sad to report the death of classic power metal screamer Ronnie James Dio, who succumbed to stomach cancer this morning after battling it since late last year. His was a long and amazingly varied career (he was recording doo wop back in the 1950s!) but I first encountered his voice in the Butterfly Ball clip, seen above. The clip was made as an attempt to launch a feature film. The film never happened, but the clip became a fixture on kids TV in the 1970s.

RIP, RJD.

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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