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More Blackmore tomorrow.
Who did Dio have 1st Blackmore or Campbell?

It was the other way round. Blackmore was in Deep Purple who were on the same level as Zeppelin and the Stones in America in the seventies playing to crowds of hundreds of thousands. Dio was in a band called Elf who opened a few shows for Purple at one point. Blackmore liked the singer and when he split from Purple grabbed Dio and a couple of others from the band to be part of what was originally called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and eventually became just Rainbow. Blackmore is it's fair to say not a people person and went through band members at a rate of knots. Dio got the boot after a while and was replaced by this guy. It's fair to say Blackmore could pick singers. This fucker is in his seventies now and can still sing like this:



But he wouldn't grow his hair so he got the boot almost immediately and was replaced by this guy: