Tony Iommi’s Gibson ‘Monkey’ SG might be the most iconic electric guitar he’s ever been associated with across his storied career, but – at the time of writing – the Black Sabbath ...

With an Epiphone ES-339 in hand, he was a standout on Sky Arts’ Guitar Star, which saw him championed by the godfather of heavy metal and record at Abbey Road. “It was nuts,” he reflects.

Tony Iommi is synonymous with the Gibson SG, but if it weren’t for an electronics mishap on the very first day of recording Black Sabbath’s debut album, he might have ended up playing a ...

In a tale mixing rock history and an unexpected twist, Tony Iommi has revealed he was unable to reclaim the iconic Gibson "Monkey" SG guitar he played on Black Sabbath 's early albums, even though ...

In the interview, Iommi said the Hard Rock Cafe did agree to lending the guitar to Gibson so that replicas could be made in 2020. “I think we did about 50 of them and I own two of those,” he ...