![]() It was just a playaround when it was the six of us, everybody was trying to do a solo at the same time." So we broke up for a week or whatever and got back together just the four of us. "But we carried on with it and we decided we didn’t need a sax player and a slide guitar player so the only way we felt comfortable about removing them was to say were breaking up. "It became a six-piece band where we had a sax player and a slide guitar player and it was horrendous to be honest. "13" was the first album in 35 years to feature Iommi, singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler all playing together."It didn’t seem to be going anywhere at first," said Osbourne. The BLACK SABBATH guitarist successfully underwent an operation in January 2017 to remove a noncancerous lump from his throat. He underwent treatment throughout the recording of the disc, titled "13", and the subsequent tour to promote it. Iommi revealed his lymphoma diagnosis in early 2012, shortly after SABBATH announced a reunion tour and album. "The End" was SABBATH's last tour because Iommi can no longer travel for extended amounts of time. SABBATH's final tour, "The End", concluded in February 2017 in Birmingham, closing out the quartet's groundbreaking 49-year career. "Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed yourselves and thanks so much for visiting." We've had some great actors, some great writers. "Birmingham has been the home of some fantastic talent from the MOODY BLUES, DURAN DURAN, THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP, Stevie Winwood, UB40, ELO, John Bonham, Robert Plant from ZEPPELIN, Beverley Knight, Joan Armatrading, and many, many more. We were too scruffy and in most clubs there was a definite dress code and you weren't allowed in wearing jeans. As you can imagine, we were promptly turned away. In fact, Ozzy, Bill, Geezer and myself tried to get into another popular club in Birmingham called the Cedar Club where Ben Bevan would play a residency when he was in a band called THE MOVE. "Before BLACK SABBATH got to be known in Birmingham, it was very difficult to get into lots of places. Me mainly because my dearest and oldest friend Albert Chapman from my old school was the manager and bouncer there. Sometimes I'd go with John Bonham from LED ZEPPELIN or Jeff Lynn from ELO to a club called the Rum Runner on Broad Street, which was one of the popular places for me and other musicians to go. On some evenings, I used to go around some of the clubs in Birmingham center with a couple of different friends who would also be having a break from touring. It was so nice then to come back home and see my friends and have a break from touring. "Moving on to 1972, and BLACK SABBATH by then had toured the world many, many times. I was playing in a local band at the time with Bill Ward, called THE REST, then in 1968 we started a band called EARTH which we would soon after change the name to BLACK SABBATH. After that, I was a repair engineer for a typewriter company, and my job was to visit companies in this area and repair their typewriters. Before we started BLACK SABBATH in the mid-1960s, I worked in a factory doing gas and electric arc welding, which is where one day I had an unfortunate accident and lost the tips of two of my fingers. "Birmingham born and bred, I worked and played in this area. They pop up to Birmingham just to grab a photograph on the bench and bridge. I understand that it attracts literally thousands of visitors each year, many from overseas who are visiting the U.K. I'm really pleased that this massive tribute to the band is here. It's great to have you at our BLACK SABBATH bridge and our famous 'heavy metal' BLACK SABBATH bench. In his vlog for Westside BID, Iommi states: "Hello, I'm Tony Iommi, lead guitarist and founder member of BLACK SABBATH. ![]() It works to create a more attractive, better marketed, brighter, safer and cleaner business environment in Birmingham, England's Westside, a central hub for entertainment and business, with 15,000 people employed in over 300 businesses throughout the area, including offices, hotels, pubs, clubs, restaurants and leisure venues. The Westside BID was formerly known as Broad Street BID and was established in 2005. Legendary BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi has recorded a special guest video blog (vlog) of early Birmingham memories for the Westside Business Improvement District ( BID).
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