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\nDen Headz, today marks one of the darkest moments in metal music history. It was on this date exactly three decades ago that legendary OZZY OSBOURNE lead guitarist Randy Rhoads lost his life in a plane joy ride gone terribly wrong. He was only twenty five years old<\/strong>.<\/em>
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\nAssociated Press:<\/p>\n
March 20, 1982, Leesburg, Florida. A small plane crashed into a
\nmansion here and burst into flames yesterday, killing the lead
\nguitarist of the Ozzy Osbourne rock group and two other people,
\npolice said.<\/p>\n
The crash killed guitarist Randall Rhoads, 25, the pilot of the Randy boarded a light aircraft piloted by Andrew Aycock \u2013 the band\u2019s tour bus driver \u2013 which soon crashed while performing low passes over the band\u2019s tour bus. In a matter of moments things went deadly wrong when the right wing of the aircraft clipped the bus, grazing a tree (which sent it into a pinwheel) and then crashed into the attached garage of a nearby mansion bursting into flames, killing Rhoads, Aycock, and the band\u2019s hairdresser, Rachel Youngblood.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a saint,\u201d said Ozzy in a later interview discussing his fallen guitarist.<\/p>\n \n Den Headz, today marks one of the darkest moments in metal music history. It was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBeechcraft Bonanza \u2013 Andrew Aycock, 36 \u2013 and Rachel Youngblood,
\n58, the group\u2019s makeup artist and hairdresser. The plane\u2019s pilot
\nwas also the group\u2019s bus driver.<\/em>
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\nRandy Rhoads<\/strong> incendiary lead guitar shredding truly set the Rock N Roll scene ablaze when he first premiered as OZZY OSBOURNE\u2019s lead guitarist in 1980. With the subsequent releases of \u201cBlizzard Of Ozz\u201d in the same year and \u201cDiary Of A Madman\u201d in 1981, there was now a big argument brewing as to who was the best lead guitarist in the world. Was he better than Eddie Van Halen?<\/em>
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\nUnfortunately, that battle of the greats would not be fully realized. On the 19th of March in 1982, while in Florida on tour for the follow-up album \u201cDiary of a Madman tour\u201d, and just one week away from playing Madison Square Garden in New York City, the worst thing that could ever happen\u2026 happened<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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\n\u201cHe was an angel, and too good for this world. His death\u2019s always on my mind. Every year at the anniversary of his birth and death, fans from all over the world gather at his grave site to honor his passing. We will never forget him. His musical legacy lives on in the minds and music of his many fans.\u201d
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