RIP
Delores Rhoads, the mother of Randy Rhoads passes away at 95

Los Angeles — Sad news to report today, Delores Rhoads the mother of the late guitar hero Randy Rhoads has passed away at 95.

Rudy Sarzo former bandmate of Randy took to his official Facebook and broke news to music fans worldwide.

UltimateClassicRock has also reported the sad news adding the following:  “Randy grew up musically in my school,” she once said. “I am sure he was influenced by this in many ways. He started when he was so young, he was somewhere between six-and-a-half and seven when he started lessons. In those days, way back then, we started them with the folk guitar where they learned the chords and a few pop songs.”

But she also made sure that he learned that being able to play simple pop songs was only a small part of the equation. “To play in my little group that I had even way back then,” she continued, “he had to read [music notation], because he couldn’t play in the group unless he read. And then I worked with him when he was very young. I gave him some piano lessons, so he had to learn to read. I always make my students count very accurately and read properly and do everything the right way, so he had some help in that.”

Rhoads’ 50-second classical guitar interlude from Osbourne’s Blizzard of Ozz, “Dee,” was written as a tribute to her. You can listen to the track below.