This day in history: American heavy metal guitarist and founding member of Quiet Riot Randy Rhoads, was killed in an airplane crash on this day in 1982.
Rhoads is best known for his work on Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo albums, and especially "Crazy Train" which features one of the most well-known heavy metal guitar riffs. Despite his short career, Rhoads is regarded as a pivotal figure in metal music, credited with pioneering a fast and technical style of guitar soloing that largely defined the metal scene of the 1980s. He helped to popularize various guitar techniques now common in heavy metal music, including two-handed tapping, tremolo bar dive bombs, and intricate scale patterns, drawing comparisons to his contemporary, Eddie Van Halen.
Randy Rhoads is one of many musicians who have died in plane crashes, including Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Patsy Cline, Glenn Miller, Jim Reeves, several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Ricky Nelson, John Denver, and Aaliyah.
In the last conversation that Ozzy had with Rhoads, Randy admonished Osbourne over his heavy drinking. The last thing Rhoads said to him that night was, "You'll kill yourself, you know, one of these days."
Forty two years later and Ozzy, like Keith Richards, is still alive.
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