The chants of "Dio, Dio, Dio" from hundreds of Headbanger was loud and proud Sunday as fans paid compliment fiery vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who succumbed to stomach tumor on 16 May at the age of 67
Mammoth public monument service honored the late metal myth was very apt, more akin to a lively rock performance than a sad funeral.
More than 1,200 fans renowned Dio in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hall of Liberty. Hundreds more gathered in the blazing heat outside the audience to see the screens in the case, as practitioners of some of Dio's rocker friends, including Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple, Geoff Tate of Queensryche and Paul Shortino of Quiet Riot.
"He touched us all with his music and his message and his magic," said David Feinstein, Dio's cousin and Elf gang member. "I know Ronnie really loved you all. He had great understanding for your loyalty. I'm discussion about all of you out there, all the fans. “
They cooperatively remembered feisty singer from the band Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and the self-titled Dio as a fervent artist, who was congenial and off stage.
Many memories Dio's continued support this year with Children of the Night, the teenage prostitution rehabilitation organization, where his wife, Wendy, serves as chairman.
Dio revealed last summer that he was suffering from stomach cancer shortly after wrapping up a trip to Atlantic City, NJ, with the last personification of Black Sabbath under the name Heaven and Hell.
Dio's son, Dan Padavona, warned the crowd commemorative plaque to be shown regularly by a doctor and take care of himself, which he said that his father did not.
"I ask you not to make the same mistake my father did," said Padavona. "For the father, the show must always go on. He ignored the warning signals for years, and all along the cancer is growing and mutating from amazing that probably was easily defeatable a monster that Dio himself could not kill."
A few members of the Westboro Baptist Church established outside the park gates as hundreds of fans came to remember Dio, who made the "devil horns" hand gesture, he learned from his Italian grandmother, a heavy metal signature.
Members of the fundamentalist church, said they opposed Dio, because they believed he worshiped Satan.
More instrumentalist friends Dio rocker celebrated by the theater songs that played Dio signature howl.
Scott Warren of heaven and hell began the memorial with an arrangement of Dio's "This Is Your Life" on piano. John Payne Asia humming the Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell." Joey Belladonna of Anthrax wailed Rainbow's "Man on the Silver Mountain".
"He had the magic," recalled Willie Fyfe, Dio longtime not public assistant. "He has always called it magic. When he had a crowd in his hands, that's where they lived before it was time to go, he would give them back, and go out and do their thing. Bless him. He is still doing now, and he's in a coffin. "
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