Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”

Tony Iommi onstage in 2012 and Eddie Van Halen onstage in 2015.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has reflected on writing a song with Eddie Van Halen for the band’s 1994 album Cross Purposes.

Van Halen helped compose the track Evil Eye but was blocked from receiving a writer’s credit on the record by his label, Warner Bros.