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“An official Vampire now”: Tony Iommi played Paranoid with Joe Perry, Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper at The Hollywood Vampires’ recent UK show

The Black Sabbath legend dropped in on the band’s Birmingham, UK show and proved he has lost none of his chops since retiring from touring

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Here's a collection of classic album covers made out of Lego

Music fan and artist Adnan Lotia has reinterpreted legendary sleeves including Metallica, Motörhead and Black Sabbath using the iconic plastic bricks

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See Tony Iommi become an honoury 'Vampire' as he joins Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper to perform Black Sabbath's Paranoid in Birmingham

The Sabbath legend guested with the Hollywood Vampires supergroup

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"It was an utterly ridiculous idea": Geezer Butler on the embarrassing truth behind Black Sabbath's infamous Stonehenge set, their unfortunate 'devil baby' and Spinal Tap

"People often ask if I've seen the film This Is Spinal Tap. I always reply, 'Seen it? I lived it'."

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Ozzy Osbourne pulls out of Power Trip festival due to health concerns: ‘I’m just not ready yet’

Black Sabbath frontman suffered a spinal injury in 2019

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Tony Iommi admits that, yes, sometimes he got carried away playing guitar solos – but Ronnie James Dio was his enabler

Iommi says the Dio years challenged Black Sabbath to up their game and RJD would tell him to solo longer. “Listening back to things, you think, ’Bloody hell! That was a bit over the top‘”

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Mysterious Black Sabbath Paranoid-era live album quietly surfaces on Spotify

Nuit Noire features material from their first two albums and arrives with zero fanfare

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“Ozzy did a great big turd on his car”: how Ozzy Osbourne got his revenge on a promoter who refused to pay him after a disastrous gig

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler looks back on his disastrous first gig with Ozzy Osbourne – and the ‘dirty protest’ that followed

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Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants kick off a huge auction in aid of kids charities, with items from some of the biggest name in metal up for grabs

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"It’s basically this story of rags to riches" - Behind the scenes at the Black Sabbath ballet

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and the project’s creative team explain what the hell is on on at the Black Sabbath ballet

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"We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable": the aggravating story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Write some songs, get into studio, come out with an album. It worked before. But when it came to making the follow-up to Vol. 4, Black Sabbath couldn’t even get started

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A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Tina Turner, Star Fleet Project, Scorpions, Billy Gibbons, Geezer Butler, Drive-By Truckers, Vintage Trouble, The Alarm, Luke Morley, Buckcherry and more

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Ozzy Osbourne says he's "thrilled to bits" that the British public have voted to name a 10 metre-high mechanical metal bull 'Ozzy' in his honour

A huge mechanical bull created for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been named after proud Brummie, and ex-Black Sabbath frontman, Ozzy Osbourne

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There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals why an incident from his childhood means he's never been interested in getting a tattoo

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"If an arrow has been shot at me, I shoot it back..." The life and career of Ronnie James Dio, in his own words

The amazing life and career of a true metal legend, as explained by the man himself

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Worst Ozzy Osbourne tribute ever? British pub’s inexplicable Photoshop gaffe removes Randy Rhoads and hands his polka dot V to Ozzy instead

This Birmingham pub’s tribute to Osbourne and the birth of Black Sabbath went very wrong indeed

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We've found the world's most grotesque tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's in a Birmingham pub

A new Wetherspoons pub in the Home Of Metal has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and it's not good at all

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Geezer Butler and Ozzy Osbourne apparently no longer speak to each other because their wives won't let them

Former Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals in his new memoir that he's no longer on talking terms with Ozzy Osbourne because of a conflict between their wives

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Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi once had an onstage guitar solo interrupted by local taxi firm orders coming through his amp

Black Sabbath's 1981 UK tour was a victory lap for their rebirth with Ronnie James Dio. A shame then that a local taxi company gatecrashed the celebrations

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We got Tenacious D to interview Ozzy and it turns out even Jack Black gets star struck

Metal, movies and Randy Rhoads – this is what happened when Tenacious D interviewed Ozzy Osbourne

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13 bands keeping occult rock alive who aren’t Ghost

Ghost might be bringing Satan to the masses, but these bands are putting the 'cult' in occult rock and metal

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Night one of NOFX’s last ever European tour perfectly illustrates why Fat Mike’s crew will be treasured forever as true punk rock rebels

NOFX launch their '40 years, 40 Cities, 40 Songs Per Day' European tour in Barcelona, and remind us why they're the greatest punk band of their generation

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Ice-T on metal, Dave Mustaine and making it against the odds: “My hustle is strong. It’s a survival instinct”

Body Count frontman, hip hop icon, controversy magnet, friend of Megadeth, Lemmy, Slayer and more – it’s Ice-T’s world, we just live in it

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In 1968 Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull for two weeks: it was the making of Black Sabbath

Tony Iommi left Birmingham to join Jethro Tull in time for the filming of The Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus, but he didn't hang around for long

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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and Free's Paul Rodgers reviewed Black Sabbath in 1970, and were not at all impressed

In 1970 Melody Maker got Roger Waters and Paul Rodgers to offer their opinions on two Black Sabbath singles

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