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Wolfgang Van Halen forced to back out of Black Sabbath's final gig

Wolfgang Van Halen will no longer be performing at Black Sabbath's Back To Beginning concert.

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Wolfgang Van Halen backs out of Black Sabbath farewell show

The words "scheduling conflict" rear their ugly head

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"He has no job security, no savings, no pension, and when he can't work, no income": Fundraiser set up for leading rock music journalist after heart attack

Writer Mick Wall has written books on Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Eagles and more

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“The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense

From denim vests to bullet belts and drawer after drawer of black t-shirts, this is how metal music developed its signature dress code

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'I was born nervous': Ozzy Osbourne voices fears ahead of Black Sabbath farewell gig

Ozzy Osbourne says he would be nervous for Black Sabbath's big Villa Park farewell even if the performance was merely a "regular gig".

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‘It’s all fan-driven. People are in absolute raptures’: how mysterious masked rockers Sleep Token took over metal

They just headlined Download festival and their latest album went to No 1 in the US and UK – so why is Britain’s biggest metal band in a generation so hated by some?

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"The main difference between Future Shock and a Deep Purple record is the trimming of self-indulgent and meandering solos": Gillan's Future Shock pays sonic tribute to their singer's illustrious past

Future Shock found Gillan with a free-spirited sound thatbrought to mind nothing so much as an update on vintage Deep Purple

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Black Sabbath! The final interview with Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – all yours in the new Guitar World

Plus interviews with Jake E. Lee, Adam Jones, Creed Bratton from The Office, the guys from Goose, former Jethro Tull man Martin Barre, K.K. Downing, Zakk Wylde, Jerry Cantrell, Tom Morello, Lzzy Hale, Billy Duffy, Robben Ford and more

Guitar World

Ozzy Osbourne bandmate admits concern ahead of Black Sabbath’s farewell show

Legendary metal band are preparing to go out with a bang at their final show next month

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'The worrying thing is the unknown' Tony Iommi voices concerns over Black Sabbath farewell gig

Tony Iommi has voiced some concerns about Black Sabbath's upcoming farewell this summer, admitting the "worry thing" for him is "the unknown", such as whether frontman Ozzy Osbourne will be sitting or standing while performing with the rockers.

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"He would have been so perfect in it." Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made

In another reality, Ozzy Osbourne could have been a Disney film superstar, and Sharon Osbourne has some regrets

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"The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don't know what's going to happen." Tony Iommi admits that he's feeling "excitement mixed with fear" as Black Sabbath's last ever gig draws near

"We’ll be touching on some stuff that we haven’t done for a long time” says Tony Iommi, ahead of Black Sabbath's final bow

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“You’re used to Ozzy running around, but he certainly won’t be doing that for this show”: Tony Iommi has “excitement mixed with fear” ahead of Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s farewell gig

The guitarist insists that this is "absolutely the end" for Ozzy and for Sabbath

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“We started out as a Pink Floyd tribute and evolved from that. Artists who claim to be original are lying through their teeth”: Airbag’s Bjørn Riis used classic prog inspirations to chart a nervous breakdown

His fifth solo album Fimbulvinter was inspired by Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Black Sabbath and others. He aimed to sound like them without ripping them off

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Guitar World

“He’s gesturing wildly to us and finally he gets the courage to come over. He says, ‘You guys are sitting on the pyro!’” The time Ozzy Osbourne almost blew up Tom Morello and Slash

The two guitar heroes had signed up to play some classics with the Prince of Darkness – but nearly got more than they bargained for

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Sharon Osbourne dropped band from Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's final gig over dispute with manager

Sharon Osbourne has revealed she banned a band from playing the Back To The Beginning concert after a huge falling out with their manager.

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“It wasn’t just my decision to fire Ozzy. It was a band decision. It was either we break up or we carry on without him”: Tony Iommi says they had to get rid of Ozzy Osbourne to make Black Sabbath great again

And he met the band's next singer through Ozzy's future wife Sharon!

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Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever

Black Sabbath's history-making Back To The Beginning show is to be made available for pay-per-view worldwide

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"Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more

Sharon Osbourne looks back on a 40-plus year career in the music industry

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This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin

Employed To Serve’s co-founder says a classic cut from Master Of Reality contains one of the best guitar parts ever written

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The mysterious woman on the cover of Black Sabbath's debut album is raffling her autograph to raise funds for a cat rescue project

"Many Black Sabbath fans have asked me online for my autograph and to this day nobody has one" - Louisa Livingstone

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“The most dangerous tour I ever did was the one with Mötley Crüe in the 80s. It was nuts. I said to my tour manager, ‘One of us is gonna die’”: This is what happened when Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows interviewed Ozzy Osbourne for Metal Hammer

Two generations came together when Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows met Ozzy Osbourne

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Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ghost, The Doobie Brothers, Skunk Anansie, Motörhead, Masters Of Reality, Robin Trower, Goo Goo Dolls, John Lydon, The Stranglers, When Rivers Meet and more

Guitar World

“There are more guitars than usual”: Tony Iommi lends his hellfire riffwork for his most obscure collaboration yet – a new single with the pop icon whose biopic starred a CGI monkey

The heavy metal legend has dragged the UK popstar’s fresh rock-influenced sound to intriguing new depths

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“The mix was outrageous… the bass was so high they couldn’t play it on the radio”: Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums

Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan, who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in 1983, likens his album with the band to Spinal Tap

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