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Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American guitarist. He was the co-founder and original guitarist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot, and the guitarist and co-songwriter for Ozzy Osbourne 's first two solo albums Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of a Madman (1981).
As Kory Grow of Rolling Stone tells us, the musician was the virtuoso guitar player who shredded on Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo records, and a major part why the Ozzman managed to pick himself up from the slump he'd been in after getting fired from Black Sabbath in 1979.
On March 19, 1982, metal guitarist Randy Rhoads died in a horrific plane crash over Leesburg, Florida while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne. Randy Rhoads was just 25 when he died, but he remains a powerful influence on countless rock guitarists.
Each one of the last 30 years, a new wave of teenage metal dudes has discovered those two landmark Ozzy albums; found themselves mesmerised by the guitar playing of the forever 25-year-old Randy Rhoads.
Just 25 years old at the time of his death, Randy Rhoads changed the face of heavy metal guitar forever. As a founding member of Quiet Riot, Rhoads was one of the hottest guitarists on the Los Angeles music scene in the late 1970s.
Enter guitarist Randy Rhoads. “I knew instinctively that he was something extra special,” Osbourne says in the Biography special of meeting Rhoads. “He was like a gift from God — we worked...
Staggering as it might seem, it was 40 years ago that a heart-wrenching tragedy claimed one of rock’s finest guitarists. His name? Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne’s brilliant guitarist, who was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida, on March 19, 1982, at age 25.
Randy Rhoads is a peerless talent who fused timeless riffs with solos of ingenious beauty and emotional fire. One of the greatest guitarists ever, Randy Rhoads gave us some of heavy metal’s most recognizable guitar riffs and influenced generations of guitar gods.
On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar, Randy Rhoads.
Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne’s brilliant guitarist, who was killed in a plane crash in Leesburg, Florida, on March 19, 1982, at age 25. In the space of a mere two studio albums with Ozzy (and two with Quiet Riot), this diminutive man with a giant talent made a massive, indelible impact on rock that was immediate and profound.