The Dark Story of Black Sabbath's Most Famous Fight

By 1982, Black Sabbath had done the impossible: replaced Ozzy Osbourne with Ronnie James Dio and made Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, records that stood alongside the classics. Then, while mixing their live album Live Evil at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler became convinced Dio was sneaking into the studio at night to turn up his own vocals. Dio denied it for the rest of his life, and drummer Vinny Appice backed him up. This is the story of the petty studio fight that split Black Sabbath's Dio era in two. From the American-versus-British divide on the Mob Rules tour and the unauthorized Live at Last release that started it all, to the engineer caught in the middle, the credits that shrank Dio's name to "Ronnie Dio," and the Holy Diver era that followed, this is how one argument over volume levels ended one of heavy metal's greatest lineups, and why the people involved still disagree about what really happened. The moments the music changed forever. Welcome to Battle of Melody. This channel is managed by CreativeFlic. For business inquiries, partnerships, and collaborations, please contactat contact@creativeflic.com