![]() ![]() ![]() An increasingly rapid series of lineup changes ultimately left Black Sabbath in comparatively poor commercial standing.įinally, in 1997, they reunited with Osbourne for the first of what would be several times. In the '80s, he'd dwarf the popularity of the band who fired him, despite still struggling with his addictions. guitar player named Randy Rhoads on the way to crafting an incredibly successful solo career. ![]() We never fought, but it’s hard to get through to people, to communicate and solve things when everybody’s out of it.”Īs shocking as the incident proved to be, ultimately it ended up working out more or less in everyone’s favor – at least in the short term.īlack Sabbath tapped Ronnie James Dio to take over on vocals, and together they made one of the group’s biggest and most well regarded records, Heaven and Hell. In one of the most unexpected rebounds in rock history, Osbourne discovered a hotshot L.A. And then you get more paranoid and you think, they hate me. There were so many drugs flying around, coke and Quaaludes and Mandrax, and there was booze and late nights and women and everything else. The guitarist went on to describe the state of Black Sabbath at the time of Osbourne's firing: “We had been together for a decade, but it got to a point where we couldn’t relate to each other any more. Somebody had to do something, otherwise we’d still be there now and we’d all be out of it. Iommi defended himself in his own memoir, Iron Man: “Ozzy seems to think it was me who pushed it, but I was only speaking on behalf of the band and trying to get the thing going. ![]()
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