“When I go to see a good concert from a metal band, it’s exhilarating. Like nothing you’ve ever heard before”: when Sir Christopher Lee met Tony Iommi

Sir Christopher Lee and Tony Iommi.

Sir Christopher Lee was an acting great whose big screen roles spanned everything from horror icons Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy to Saruman The White in Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings trilogy and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel movies. But late in his career, he took an unexpected left turn and reinvented himself as a metal singer. In 2010, Metal Hammer brought him together with another legend, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, to talk music, heavy metal and Manowar…

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