{"id":8840,"date":"2025-07-14T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:19:03","slug":"i-was-fired-i-never-wanted-to-leave-vivian-campbell-opens-up-on-difficult-relationship-with-dio-recalls-dios-painful-comments-about-his-firing-ultimate-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8840\/","title":{"rendered":"'I Was Fired. I Never Wanted To Leave': Vivian Campbell Opens Up On 'Difficult' Relationship With Dio, Recalls Dio's 'Painful' Comments About His Firing – Ultimate Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I Was Fired. I Never Wanted To Leave’: Vivian Campbell Opens Up On ‘Difficult’ Relationship With Dio, Recalls Dio’s ‘Painful’ Comments About His Firing<\/a>  Ultimate Guitar\u201cI could tell that he was very proud\u2026 \u2018This is my guy, my guitar player. I found him under a rock in Belfast!\u2019\u201d: Vivian Campbell on his complicated relationship with Ronnie James Dio \u2013 and what Dio told Ozzy Osbourne about his playing<\/a>  MusicRadar\u201cI remember reading it and thinking, \u2018Why did he say I left the band?\u2019 I never left the band. I was fired\u201d: Vivian Campbell sets the record straight on his infamous departure from Ronnie James Dio\u2019s band<\/a>  Guitar World‘I Was Intimidated By Ronnie’: Vivian Campbell Recalls What Dio Told Him About His ‘Holy Diver’ Solo, Reveals ‘Important Lesson’ He Learned In Band<\/a>  Ultimate Guitar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I Was Fired. I Never Wanted To Leave’: Vivian Campbell Opens Up On ‘Difficult’ Relationship With Dio, Recalls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[89,8808,88,8812,8811,216,8809,8810],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-sabbath","tag-dio","tag-entertainment","tag-guitar-solo","tag-holy-diver","tag-music","tag-ronnie-james-dio","tag-vivian-campbell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}