Late guitar virtuoso Randy Rhoads wasn’t just a remarkable musician, he was a true innovator. His playing, both with early Quiet Riot and more famously Ozzy Osbourne, was freewheeling and explosive. With an angelic face, blonde hair and a slight frame, he seemed almost otherwordly.

More than 30 years after his death, Rhoads’ style and songwriting remain vital and influential, and have inspired the tones and techniques of other guitar heroes, including Black Label Society’s Zakk Wylde, the late Dimebag Darrell and Avenged Sevenfold’s axe duo of Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance.

Tragically, Randy Rhoads died on March 19, 1982, when a small plane he was riding in clipped the side of Ozzy tour bus and crashed into a mansion garage in Leesburg, Florida killing Rhoads, hairdresser Rachel Youngblood, and Ozzy’s bus driver Andrew Aycock, who flew the plane.

Here's an oldie but a goodie from Randy's first band Quiet Riot circa 1975