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“I can’t feel it. It’s bone on bone. I’ve had to adjust my style. In a way, it’s like learning to play guitar again”: Jake E. Lee on how he has changed his playing – and gear – due to arthritis struggles

The former Ozzy Osbourne shredder has had to change things up to keep on playing

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“I was starstruck when I first met Ozzy. He said he had ‘a good feeling’ about me. He just encouraged me to play with my heart”: Gus G on growing up on Black Sabbath, playing with Ozzy Osbourne – and why Tony Iommi’s style was the hardest to master

Gus G reflects on a life-changing moment when he joined the likes of Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde as one of the few to be chosen by Ozzy as his shredder-in-chief

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“I always wanted a Les Paul but I couldn’t play them”: Tony Iommi on why he never became a Les Paul player – despite wanting to become one

The Black Sabbath riff lord made the reveal at the launch of his newly revived signature Gibson humbuckers

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“Watching Tony Iommi play Iron Man to demo his signature pickup in person was a borderline biblical experience”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – and is that a new Epiphone double-neck?

New launches from Boss, PRS, Fender and Third Man Hardware headline the biggest guitar gear drops this week

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“Tony Iommi didn’t want a song by another guitarist on a Sabbath record.I never saw the money. But hearing Dio perform my song was unforgettable”: Jimi Bell may have lost out to Zakk Wylde in his Ozzy Osbourne audition, but he has no regrets

The drummer turned guitarist remains grateful for what Sharon Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Joan Jett and Randy Rand did for him, as he preps original music from his Deep Purple tribute band

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"Somebody stole it from the hotel. Then Gibson made another one, and somebody stole that as well! I couldn't believe it": Tony Iommi on the time two of his prized early Gibson SGs went missing

Iommi reminisced about his long-lost Gibsons at an event celebrating the relaunch of the Tony Iommi humbucker

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"He's the Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart of the riff": Gibson salutes Tony Iommi in star-studded new film series

Iommi: The Godfather Of Heavy Metal features interviews with Brian May, Slash, Dave Mustaine, Kirk Hammett, Scott Ian and more

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“They were getting pretty hard to find!” Gibson has re-launched its first ever signature pickup – the Tony Iommi humbucker

The resurrected 'bucker is designed to help guitarists emulate the mighty, distorted rumble of the metal godfather's tone, without descending into overcooked, blown-out mush

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“I was blown away with the distinct Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath sound I was able to get out of them”: Gibson goes back to the beginning, reissuing its first-ever signature pickup, the Tony Iommi humbucker

Is this the power-up your riffing has been waiting for? The Godfather of Heavy Metal's signature pickup makes a comeback

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“It was a difficult moment to be hit in the face and then asked to sing a song. It was a tragic moment for me”: How a singer’s spell in Black Sabbath turned into a nightmare

"I was never a Black Sabbath-type singer", Glenn Hughes says

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“I was all over the place. But when I first heard Randy play, it was poetry in motion. I thought, ‘Wow, I’m onto a good thing here’”: Ozzy Osbourne couldn’t play guitar. Yet he changed the guitar world by introducing some of its greatest heroes

The late heavy-metal icon did not, could not, play guitar. Yet his contribution to the scene – whether giving a platform to fledgling gunslingers or igniting their talents – was inestimable

Guitar World

“I don’t want people to be upset with me because I don’t mention Ritchie”: Glenn Hughes has worked with some of guitar’s all-time greats – now he’s named the best he’s ever played with

The rock legend has revealed how he’s split the difference between two superlative players to claim the top spot

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“I don’t know anything about what’s going on in that world now, at all”: Robert Plant reveals why he turned down the chance to appear at the Back To The Beginning show

“It’s just I found these other places that are so rich,” frontman says

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“Aston Villa is proud to remember Ozzy Osbourne, a music legend”: Watch Aston Villa FC pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne before their first game of the new season

The Prince Of Darkness’ hometown team Aston Villa honour the late singer at Villa Park, site of his final gig

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"I don’t know anything about what’s going on in that world now." Robert Plant reveals why he turned down Tony Iommi's invitation to Black Sabbath's last ever show

This is why you didn't see Led Zeppelin's frontman at Black Sabbath's final show

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Robert Plant will become an 'Elvis impersonator' if his musical projects fail

Led Zeppelin icon Robert Plant plans to become an "Elvis impersonator" if his future musical ideas do not pan out well.

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Robert Plant reveals why he turned down an invitation from Tony Iommi to attend Black Sabbath’s farewell concert

After being asked to perform at Ozzy Osbourne’s final performance before his death, Led Zeppeling rocker Robert Plant has revealed why he recently turned down an invitation from Tony Iommi to attend the gig.

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“They were unfairly dismissed by critics and listeners with ‘good taste’ as mindlessly primitive”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Black Sabbath's Iron Man

Following Ozzy's passing, we put one of Sabbath's best-loved tracks under the musical microscope

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Debate: what is the greatest metal riff of all time?

Creeping Death? Raining Blood? The Trooper? Blind? Which metal riff towers above the rest?

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"Thirty-four minutes of pure unadulterated sonic sludge": Black Sabbath tweak the formula on Master Of Reality, invent even more genres

Black Sabbath: now heavier, denser and doomier than before

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“The whole place went, ‘What on earth is this?!’ It was nuts. The crowd went mental”: The story of the Black Sabbath gig that changed history

At a gig just outside Birmingham on August 1, 1969, music changed forever

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"I'm always looking for the rainbow I can't find": At the Classic Rock Awards in 2008, Ozzy Osbourne gave one of his most revealing interviews

After picking up the Living Legend Award at the 2008 Classic Rock Roll Of Honour, Ozzy sat down to talk about being Ozzy Osbourne

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Google ‘Ozzy Osbourne’. You won’t regret it.

The search engine has included a touching tribute to the Prince Of Darkness for those who look up his name

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“The last text I got from Oz said, ‘Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn’t see you. Thanks for everything’”: Zakk Wylde looks back on his closer-than-close relationship with Ozzy Osbourne, and their final moments together onstage

Wylde was the Black Sabbath icon's guitarist and friend for decades. He reflects on his instant connection with the Prince of Darkness, how their relationship evolved both on and offstage, and that emotional final show at Back to the Beginning

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"Sabbath were there for me before punk." Duff Mckagan on recording with Ozzy, jamming with Tony Iommi and why Black Sabbath were true punks

Guns N' Roses legend Duff McKagan shares what Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne mean to him

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