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Article: AFTER 30 YEARS, FANS STILL WORSHIP BLACK SABBATH.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 8, 1999
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Guitarist Tony Iommi sits in a midtown Manhattan hotel room, reflecting on Black Sabbath's 30-year history. Next to him is singer Ozzy Osbourne. Years ago, both vowed never to share the same stage again.
Black Sabbath is the band that pioneered heavy metal music with its amplified dirges brimming with cryptic lyrics and bone-crushing riffs. During the early 1970s, the band's exploits became synonymous with the hard-rock lifestyle of all-night parties, groupies and exhausting tour schedules.
On the band's first American tour, Iommi and Osbourne knocked down a hotel wall in Virginia.
``We were angry guys,'' Osbourne explains. ``And we just ...