Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler recalls showing Ronnie James Dio the ‘devil horns’ hand sign

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Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler has recalled in a new interview how he first showed Ronnie James Dio the ‘devil horns’ hand sign before the late frontman popularised the gesture.The ‘devil horns’ became synonymous with Dio, who passed away in 2010, during his time fronting Black Sabbath.Speaking in a new interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Butler explained how he’d been doing the ‘devil horns’ sign prior to Dio joining the band and that he has “pictures of me doing it since 1971”.“And I always used to do it in the breakdown in the [1970] song ‘Black Sabbath’ – just before it goes into the fast part at the end, I’d do that sign to the audience,” the bassist said.“On the first couple of ‘Heaven And Hell’ tour shows, Ronnie.