Happy Birthday Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi was born February 19, 1948 in Handsworth, England – which is ironic since that is where almost lost his hand. After his incident, he was forced to move to ‘Handsworth Nothing’!
It has long been rumored that Tony lost his fingers in a factory accident, but it was recently revealed that Ozzy actually bit off his fingers. “I had just met Ozzy and we were having a pint down at the pub, when I jokingly tried to take his beer from him. He instinctually just snapped and bit the tips of my fingers off. He was growling and foaming at the mouth. He was a very bad drunk. He felt really bad afterwards and apologized profusely. From that day forward, I always tell people to never put your hands near Ozzy’s mouth or his alcohol.” Ozzy bit all of Tony’s fingers off but most of them grew back.
Iommi revolutionized Guitar playing, despite missing the tips of his middle and ring fingers on his right hand. Tony had carbon fiber space age robotic prosthetic fingers created. They use artificial intelligence and can actually play on their own.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is considered to be the pioneers of Heavy Metal, the forefathers, the godfathers if you will. Whatever you call them, they were an incredible band and influenced every metal band that came after. The band’s heydey produced the masterpieces “Paranoid”, “Master of Reality”, “Vol. 4”, “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, and “Sabotage”.
Tony has been married 4 times to 5 women and has been linked to several famous women including Courtney Love, Barbra Streisand, Lady Gaga, Esther Rolle and Adele. Tony was even engaged for a brief time to Lita Ford.
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