
The cartoon illustration of Lennon is making the sign of the horns as we know it today. In January 1969, The Beatles released the full-album "Yellow Submarine," a soundtrack to the 1968 animated film. His thumb is out, and rather than his palm, the back of his hand is facing forward. In 1966, the Beatles released the single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby." The cover features John Lennon making a hand sign similar to today's version of the devil's horns. It's to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it." So it's a bit like "knocking on wood." In 2001, he told, "It's not the devil's sign like we're here with the devil. Setting himself apart from Ozzy, Dio adopted what has become the rock music salute.ĭio many times explained to the media that he took the hand sign from his Italian grandmother. But he didn't want to be an Ozzy copycat. It had become such a Black Sabbath ritual that when Dio took over, he felt the band wouldn't be the same unless he used a symbol as well, a former publicity agent told The Wall Street Journal. Ozzy's big gimmick on stage was flashing double peace signs. When Ozzy Osbourne left (or was kicked out) of Black Sabbath in 1979, Dio took his place. Heavy metal star Ronnie James Dio, who died last year of cancer, most often gets credit for making the hand sign synonymous with rock music. With Ozzy coming to town, we decided to look into the history of the rock 'n' roll salute, and some accounts point to his indirectly fostering the phenomenon. So are the sign's origins evil, or to ward off evil, or what?

Surely the hordes of music fans, pop stars and actors seen making the gesture aren't all hailing Satan, are they? And they can't all be University of Texas fans signaling "Hook 'em Horns." Three decades later, what some call "the devil's horns" or "sign of the horns" has morphed into a mainstream way of saying, "Rock on" or "Hell, yeah" or "Good times." Other musicians did it before him he just popularized it and linked it to heavy metal.

With that knowledge, only fans can decide whether to refrain from using the hand-horns at all at Ozzy's concert.ĭio sometimes gets credit for inventing the sign, but he repeatedly said publicly that he didn't. It was his Black Sabbath replacement, the late Ronnie James Dio, who started making the hand-horns on stage circa 1979. He's playing along with Slash at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena at 7:30 p.m. It's a safe bet to say concert- goers will scream, raise their arms high and flash the sign while Ozzy Osbourne is on stage. By default, gesture recognition is disabled at the account and group levels but enabled for accounts that have meeting reactions and webinar reactions turned on.Index finger up, middle fingers down, pinky up, thumb in: the standard rock 'n' roll salute. Currently, this feature is supported for Raise Hand ✋ and Thumbs Up 👍 reactions.Īccount owners and admins can enable or disable, as well as lock, this feature at the account and group level. This feature translates a real-world gesture into Zoom’s existing reactions, allowing for visual gestures, such as a raised hand, to automatically display a corresponding meeting reaction and allow users to more easily react during a meeting or webinar. Participants can give more visible feedback through gestures by using gesture recognition.
