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It's the Talk Show for people who don't even listen to talk shows. This week you will be glued to the radio as Allan and his guests discuss the things you talk about with your friends when you're alone.
This it’s a very special tribute to the great Ronnie James Dio. In addition to lots of great music from his DIO, Black Sabbath and Heaven and Hell years, Allan will replay his most recent interview with Ronnie from last year. Ronnie was a longtime friend of the Allan Handelman Show and we urge DIO fans to be here Sunday and be a part of this very special show.
Also this week, the notorious author Josh Allen Friedman with more stories of the mafia’s control of the music industry. He pulls no punches and names from the songwriters, record companies and artists involved. His latest book, Black Cracker, deals with among other things reverse racism.
Ronnie James Dio was one of Metal's most enduring and well-regarded Heavy Metal vocalists. In the early 70's his band Elf was opening for Deep Purple. Then Ritchie Blackmore decided to leave Deep Purple to form Rainbow with Ronnie. DIO spent a few years as the incredible singer for Rainbow that critics call the peak years for the band. Then he left Rainbow to form his own band DIO. Later on he put his solo career on hold again to do three years and three albums with Black Sabbath, eventually leaving to reform Dio.
Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice returned to the stage after 15 years in 2007, launching a highly successful world tour as Heaven & Hell. Inspired by the road, the band recently returned to the studio to record their first album since 1992's Dehumanizer.
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW. "Everyone had so much fun playing together that we didn't want it to end," says the group. "We started writing together and the songs started flowing like we never stopped. We wound up writing and recording an album that stands up to anything we've ever done. We're really proud of the music and excited for people to hear it."
The dark tone heard on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is clear from several of the album's song titles, such as "Bible Black," "Rock & Roll Angel," "Breaking Into Heaven," "Atom & Evil" and "Eating The Cannibals."
The seeds of the Heaven and Hell CD were planted in 2006, when Dio, Iommi, Butler and Appice returned to the studio to record a trio of new songs for Black Sabbath: The Dio Years, a recent compilation of essential tracks taken from the quartet's four albums together. Soon after, the band launched a run of sold-out shows around the world, electrifying audiences with its malevolent metal fury.
Some of the Ronnie James Dio classics that will live on forever include, Stand Up And Shout, Holy Diver, Rainbow In The Dark, The Last in Line, and the live version of Man On The Silver Mountain, were included on the 2001 release of The Very Beast Of Dio.
The new newest DIO CDs are Killing the Dragon and Magica.
There will be a Public Memorial Service for Ronnie James Dio on Sunday, May 30th at 2:00 PM at The Hall Of Liberty located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
This will be a celebration of the life and music of Ronnie James Dio and is open to all of his friends and fans from around the world.
For those of you that will be flying in from out of town or out of the country, Ronnie's people have arranged special rates at various local hotels. More information is available at Ronnie's Facebook page.
Wendy Dio has requested in lieu of sending flowers, please make a donation to the Ronnie James Dio "STAND UP AND SHOUT CANCER FUND." Please send your donations to the Niji Entertainment Group, 12400 Ventura Blvd. #624, Studio City, CA 91604 USA or use the Paypal link at RonnieJamesDio.com.
In 1987, writer-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman sold his soul to the devil at the Crossroads of the World (Broadway & 42nd Street) and moved to Texas.
Fifteen astonishing rock 'n' roll tales, from the sordid to the hilarious, from Josh Alan Friedman, author of the classic Tales of Times Square. Legendary musicians and songwriters are captured in moments of crisis, despair, revelation, and glory, and the last great story of the music business, Leiber and Stoller, is told for the first time ever.
From New York to Texas, Friedman pulls no punches as he peels back the myths surrounding Doc Pomus, Johnny Otis, Elvis Presley, Big Mama Thornton, Dr. John, Phil Spector, Ahmet Ertegun, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter, and more, including Rick Sikes and the Rhythm Rebels, possibly the only true "outlaw" band in the history of country music - they robbed banks when they weren't onstage.
Friedman cuts right to the bone with the true stories of bluesmen and studio cats, junkies, Jewish hustlers, and mafia thugs, all of whom played starring roles in the history of rock 'n' roll.
Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps the last great untold story of the music biz. They created the American songbook of the '50s and '60s, led by Elvis, the Coasters, and the Drifters.
Doc Pomus, the only white blues singer in America making records in the 1940s. Half of the hit songwriting team of Pomus-Shuman during the Brill Building era, Doc had the biggest heart in the music business.
A sad, comic-tragic romance with the Ronettes' Ronnie Spector, dubbed an “oldie” once she left her teens.
Johnny Otis, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Johnny Winter,
Tales of Times Square is a cult classic that helped set the stage for Times Square's modern transformation. A 21st anniversary Expanded Edition was just released by Feral House, with new chapters. The upcoming movie of Tales, directed by Paul Stone, has played 35 film festivals.
I, Goldstein: My Screwed Life (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006), is a memoir of the Great Pornographer, Al Goldstein. When Sex Was Dirty (Feral House, 2005), chronicles 1980's New York.
