RONNIE JAMES DIO - The Final Video Interview?
May 22, 2010, 14 years ago
In what appears to be RONNIE JAMES DIO's (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL, RAINBOW, ELF) final interview, Steve Simon from Texas' 39 News spoke with the legendary singer at The University Of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center while he was in chemo treatment just prior to his death on on Sunday, May 16th at 7:45 AM PST at the age of 67. Check out the video below:
As previously reported, there will be a Public Memorial Service for RONNIE JAMES DIO (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL, RAINBOW, ELF) on Sunday, May 30th at 2:00 PM PT at The Hall Of Liberty located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA (more details here).
Word has since come down that the the independent Westboro Baptist Church intends to picket the service "to remind you who worship that old Serpent, Satan, that your time is very short. You know 67 year old, Satan-worshiping (or at least one of their enablers) Ronnie James Dio (of showing his devil horns to the world each time he goes in public) Black Sabbath fame is dead, right? We'll be there! Just because the chances of any of God's elect being amongst this group of heavy metal sycophants is slim to none does not mean they should not get some good words."
Ronnie James Dio's wife/manager has responded to the possibility of picketers at the memorial:
"Ronnie hates prejudice and violence! We need to turn the other cheek on these people that only know how to hate someone they didn't know. We only know how to love someone we know!"Following is a list of Dio's "sins" according to the organization:
- "He hates his neighbor(s) starting with Ozzy Osbourne, and continuing down to his pornography star niece Gen Padova!"- "He hates God. Pay especial attention to the fact that he changed his original sir name from Padova to Dio, which means God in Italian."
- "Ronnie the simpleton enabled, and encouraged Sorceries: everything he was about including the little finger horn thing (he got this from his mother which is an incantation to ward off the 'evil eye') to the drugs, bloody raw meat and his fellowship with those pentagon necklace wearing freakish band members."
More details can be found on the official Westboro Baptist Church here.
Information on the organization courtesy of CNN can be found at this location.