threatened to tell Atlantic Records about Gillen's illness if he was fired by the band. Gillen reportedly denied it, saying to Lee, "Well, it's not true, so fuck him. Fire him." Lee concluded, "So we did fire him. And he did tell Atlantic Records that. And we got kind of screwed on the second record because of it. They wouldn't even give us tour-support money at all…but, yeah, Paul O'Neill fucked us on that." Gillen was survived by a daughter, Ashley (born July 1984). He is buried at Fairview Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey. He was ranked at 100 on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists. Discography References External links Ray Gillen at Black Sabbath Online Tribute page on Hotshotdigital.com Ray Gillen Biography from VH1.com Ray Gillen at Find a Grave 1959 births 1993 deaths American heavy metal singers Savatage members Black Sabbath members Badlands (American band) members Blue Murder (band) members AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) People from Cliffside Park, New Jersey 20th-century American singers 20th-century British musicians Burials at Fairview Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey) 20th-century American male singers Blues rock musicians