{"id":793923,"date":"2019-03-18T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=795089"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:09:07","slug":"bernie-torme-ozzy-osbourne-and-ian-gillan-guitarist-dead-at-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bernie-torme-ozzy-osbourne-and-ian-gillan-guitarist-dead-at-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Torme, Ozzy Osbourne and Ian Gillan Guitarist, Dead at 66"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernie Torm\u00e9, a guitarist who had played with Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> and former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan\u2019s band Gillan, died on Sunday at the age of 66. Mik Gaffney, Torm\u00e9 drummer, confirmed the news on Facebook<\/a>. Last month, his Twitter account posted<\/a> that he was extremely ill and in intensive care with virulent double pneumonia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am absolutely numb,\u201d Gaffney wrote. \u201cGot the news this morning that Bernie Torm\u00e9 has died. It\u2019s been a thrill playing drums for him for the past couple of years. He was loud, passionate, didn\u2019t suffer fools but he was always a true gentleman. He produced one of my old band\u2019s demos back in the Eighties, and told me off for using a china cymbal (\u201cNot very rock n roll you,\u201d he said) but I used it anyway. I will miss our arguments about Irish whiskey vs. Scottish whisky, I will miss him calling me a cunt, I will miss seeing that sparkle in his eye when he strapped his guitar on. RIP Bernie. We we all miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torm\u00e9, who was born in Dublin on March 18th, 1952, was best known for joining Osbourne\u2019s touring band after Randy Rhoads died in a freak plane accident in 1982. Although he was a member of the band for only a handful of shows before being replaced by Night Ranger guitarist Brad Gillis, Osbourne credited him with giving him the inspiration he needed to carry on in the wake of Rhoads\u2019 death.<\/p>\n

Outside of his stint with Osbourne, Torm\u00e9 was the guitarist in Gillan from 1979 to 1981 until he was replaced by future Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers, and also played in the prog-rock group Atomic Rooster alongside members of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Other groups he played with include metal band Desperado (with Dee Snider) and GMT (he was the T). Torm\u00e9 also appeared on an album by hard-rock singer Ren\u00e9 Berg.<\/p>\n

When news of Torm\u00e9\u2019s illness hit the internet, Osbourne and his wife tweeted a message<\/a> to the guitarist: \u201cDearest Bernie Torme, Sending you positive vibes and love, and all our prayers. Love Ozzy and Sharon.\u201d<\/p>\n

In between his gigs with other bands, the guitarist also fronted his own Bernie Torm\u00e9 Band and another group called Torm\u00e9 while issuing solo albums under his own name. His most recent, Shadowland<\/em>, came out late last year. At the time of its release, he had said that his current solo tour of the U.K. would be his last; he called the tour \u201cThe Final Fling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, he reunited with Osbourne when he attended one of the singer\u2019s No More Tours 2 shows in Sweden. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen him for a fucking thousand years,\u201d Osbourne told Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>. \u201cSomeone told me he was outside my dressing room. I went, \u2018No.\u2019<\/em> He said, \u2018I\u2019ll never forget the time I played with you, Ozzy. It was a lot of fun.\u2019 I couldn\u2019t remember what he looks like. It had been that long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOzzy talked about not selling any records these days and asked me if I did,\u201d Torm\u00e9 recalled of the encounter. \u201cI said, \u2018Ozzy, I never<\/em> sold any records.\u2019 We had a good laugh. It was a nice closure for me on a terrible time [replacing Rhoads].\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernie Torm\u00e9, a guitarist who had played with Ozzy Osbourne and former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan\u2019s band Gillan, died on Sunday at the age of 66. Mik Gaffney, Torm\u00e9 drummer, confirmed the news on Facebook. Last month, his Twitter account posted that he was extremely ill and in intensive care with virulent double pneumonia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 14:38:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}