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      • 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. A small prop plane carrying Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood and pilot Andrew Aycock crashed in the morning hours at in Leesburg, FL, killing all three on impact.
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  2. Jan 26, 2022 · Don Airey Describes What Randy Rhoads Was Like on His Last Tour, Talks How Rhoads' Death Affected Him. "I don't think he was a very happy guy towards the end. He wasn't happy with the...

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    Rhoads played his last show on Thursday, March 18, 1982, at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. The next day, the band was heading to a festival in Orlando, Florida. Osbourne recalls his final conversation with Rhoads that night on the bus involved the guitarist admonishing him over his heavy drinking. The last thing Rhoads said to him that night was, “Y...

    “At approximately 9:00 a.m. on Friday, March 19, 1982, I was awoken from my sleep by a loud explosion. I immediately thought that we’d hit a vehicle on the road. I got out of the bed, screaming to my fiancée, Sharon, ‘Get off the bus.’ Meanwhile, she was screaming to everyone else to get off the bus.” “After getting out of the bus, I saw that a pla...

    “One small fire engine arrived, which appeared to squirt three gallons of water over the inferno. We asked for further assistance, such as telephones, and didn’t receive any further help. In the end, we finally found a telephone and Sharon phoned her father.” The band was scheduled to perform at an outdoor festival called Rock Super Bowl XIV later ...

  3. Mar 24, 2024 · He’s talking about the death of Randy Rhoads in a plane crash on March 19, 1982, en route to a gig in Orlando. The band’s bus driver, Andrew Aycock, was a qualified pilot and had offered to take Rhoads and make-up artist Rachel Youngblood in a single-engine plane. Aycock flew low over the bus twice.

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  4. Jan 27, 2022 · Former Ozzy Osbourne keyboardist Don Airey said he still thinks about Randy Rhoads every day, and can still hear the late guitarist's laugh in his head. Now with Deep Purple, Airey played...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Don_AireyDon Airey - Wikipedia

    He also played on the Diary of a Madman Tour from 1981 to 1982 and appears on Blizzard of Ozz and was also the only witness to Randy Rhoads's death. Airey joined Jethro Tull in 1987 for their tour in support of Crest of a Knave. The same year also saw the release of Whitesnake's multi-platinum Whitesnake, on which Airey played keyboards.

  6. Mar 19, 2024 · A small prop plane carrying Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood and pilot Andrew Aycock crashed in the morning hours at in Leesburg, FL, killing all three on impact. The “whys” of the crash will never...

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