How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know. Dom Lawson. Sat, March 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC. 11 min read.

When Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, it threw the band’s future in doubt – but they returned with a new singer, Ronnie James Dio, and an album, Heaven and Hell, that ...

And on April 25, 1980, Black Sabbath returned with their classic Heaven and Hell album. The initial plan was to work on a side project with Ronnie James Dio while Ozzy straightened out.

"Actually, Rob kept wanting to do it — he wanted to do it." "Ronnie didn't wanna do those shows; he doesn't wanna go on before Ozzy, 'cause who knows what would happen," he said. "So he refused ...