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During part one of the interview, Iommi talks about his early days as a musician, cutting off his fingers in an industrial accident and his road to forming Black Sabbath. The story of Tony Iommi ...
I pulled my arm back, and as I pulled it back, I pulled the ends off the fingers," Iommi recalls. At the hospital, Tony received devastating news. The doctors told him they couldn’t repair the ...
Before becoming a rock legend, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi worked in a sheet metal plant, where he lost the tips of two of his fingers in an accident. (It happened during his last day on ...
For half a century, Tony Iommi’s ominous guitar riffs propelled ... homemade thimbles out of plastic bottle caps for his injured fingers and tuning his guitar down to make the strings easier ...
On February 19th, 1948, Tony Iommi was born. We all know him as the ... he had an accident that severed the tips of his ring ...
An interview with Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi ... Metal: Fingers Bloody Fingers, shows how the Birmingham, England native made the most of a bad situation. In the clip, Iommi explains ...
Brian May of Queen; Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath ... And it’s from his fingers and his mind. That young ex-welder, he made that happen. So, you know, he forever wears that medal, I think.
How did Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and former member ... slicing off the tips of his middle and right fingers. "I was told 'you'll never play again'," says the lead guitarist.
Tony Iommi’s band ... skills of its guitarist. But Iommi is one of the original members of the band and has always remained with the band. Despite missing finger tips that can make playing ...