The legendary singer of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio greets us welcome, true to his habit, in the dressing room, one hour before the concert in Lulea. The band are charging up and are eating the good snacks that has been brought to them on a table. Ronnie invites us to sit down for a chat. He smells like newly put on skin cream and Old Spice or some other mature aftershave, which must say goes well with the father figure he has become in the hardrock world.

The CD-Rom holds more than 80 tribute-letters with photos from fans all over the world. The rumour about Egon Lundberg´s project has gotten to Dio fans on the net and the result has become a massive positive reception. Worth mentioning is that both Tracy G, the former guitarplayer in Ronnie James Dio´s band, and Dave Feinstein who played with Ronnie in the group Elf in he beginning of the 70's, has participated in this project and sent their contributions to Egon who has had a hectic time putting all of this together.

During the meeting with Ronnie, Egon had some troubles getting the words out, but he is very pleased with his creation and to personally handing it over. For the first time he remembers to ask the idol to sign some records for him.

-Fifth time's a charm, says Egon and smiles. For this is the fifth time the two of them meet.

The CD-Rom from Egon is the first gift of this kind that Ronnie James Dio gets. On the other hand he has been given many gifts through the years.

-I have been forced to throw away furnitures to make room for the presents. I have saved almost everything. In Moscow I once got a stuffed lion that is twice as big as myself. I have it at home in Los Angeles.

The fans are united: the idol takes good care of them, writes happily his autograph when there is time and listens both to praise and criticism.

-Without the fans I would just be a good singer that no one had ever heard of. I really care, it is like a love affair between us.

After the tour awaits a longer time off. After that awaits the work with a new album.

-It will be a song-orientated album, not a "Magica Part 2", he tells us.

Besides his music career, Ronnie gives much of his time to a charity project, "Children Of The Night" that helps sexually abused childs. The song "Throw Away Children" he has written together with the guitarist Craig Goldie special for an album on which among others Doro Pesch will participate. The album will be sold in the benefit for the project that for example helps young prostitutes off the streets.

-Sexual abuse of young people is something that I really do not like. Children only knows how to love. They do not know anything else, before someone teaches them to hate people that has another color of the skin or to use drugs, Ronnie says very seriously.

Another project is a book about himself, of which one third is allready written.

-It will not be a "tell everything"-book about people that have treated me bad, it will be a book about funny experiences that I have had. Before I am finished maybe I have experienced so much that it will be a couple more, but I think that this book will be finished in a few years, says Ronnie as a closing, he thanks us politly and gets ready to take care of – that´s right – the fans.

Egon is pleased afterwards:

-What can I say? "Wonderful" is the only word I can think of. I wish that everyone could meet Ronnie, he is just so nice. A big role model in a small body.