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1982: Exceptional guitarist Randy Rhoads dies when the plane crash dies
He had cocaine in his blood and he was also afraid of flying. Nevertheless, Randy Rhoads persuaded his tour bus driver Andrew Aycock to climb into his private plane at night. Together they flew a few laps via Aycock’s estate in Leesburg, Florida. Close to the Ozzy Ozy-Osbourne-Crew parked there, and, one hoped to wake up enough to wake up the sleepers. During the third approach, the wing of the small plane came into contact by bus; The machine then grazed a tree and finally crashed into a garage next to the country house. Rhads, 25, Aycock and another woman burned to the unknown. We write March 19, 1982.
His career was far too short: Randy Rhoads, once a member of Quiet Riot and then hired by Ozzy Osbourne, died in 1982 at the age of 25 during an aircraft crash. But his precise, artistically built Speed Soli on Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” and “Mr. Crowley” provided the template for countless metal guitarists of the following years. “He was the reason that I practiced eight hours a day,” says Tom Morello, who calls Rhads the “greatest hard rock/heavy metal guitarist of all time”.
Rhads had already co -founded as a teenager Quiet Riot, but joined Ozzy’s band for “Blizzard of Ozz” in 1979 after he had also worked as a guitar teacher.
“He was looking deep inside what made him as a guitarist,” said Nikki Sixx by Mötley Crüe
According to legend, he himself took another hour when he was on tour with Ozzy. When he recorded his last album “Diary of a Madman”, he increasingly dealt with classical and jazz.
“He was looking deep inside what made him as a guitarist,” said Nikki Sixx by Mötley Crüe. “The next step was actually mapped out.”