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5 essential Jethro Tull songs guitar players need to hear
By Neil Crossley published
"And here was Jimmy Page waving like mad… I'm thinking, 'I can't wave back, or I'm going to blow the solo'”

Watch Shane Hawkins play drums on Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and Black Sabbath songs with Taylor Hawkins’ cover band, Chevy Metal
By Stuart Williams published
The young drummer delivered a solo on Moby Dick, and the band were joined by Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach

Tony Iommi admits that, yes, sometimes he got carried away playing guitar solos – but Ronnie James Dio was his enabler
By Jonathan Horsley published
Iommi says the Dio years challenged Black Sabbath to up their game and RJD would tell him to solo longer. “Listening back to things, you think, ’Bloody hell! That was a bit over the top‘”

Mysterious Black Sabbath Paranoid-era live album quietly surfaces on Spotify
By Rob Laing published
Nuit Noire features material from their first two albums and arrives with zero fanfare

Geezer Butler rules out future gigs with Black Sabbath and explains retirement from touring in general
By Rob Laing published
"I didn’t realize how hard starting from scratch is, especially when you’re used to your own plane and staying at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton"

A Black Sabbath ballet is coming to Birmingham and it might just turn out to be a genius meeting of worlds
By Rob Laing published
The band's home city will host the Tony Iommi-endorsed Black Sabbath - The Ballet in September before it visits other cities

Tony Iommi on Black Sabbath's Vol 4: "Somebody said, ‘You can’t put Laguna Sunrise on the album with all the heavy stuff.’ Why?"
By Rob Laing published
Classic interview: 50 years on from Vol 4, we look back with a guitar pioneer

The story of Black Sabbath's Children Of The Grave: “If you listen to critics too much, you’ll lose your identity. We didn’t listen."
By Henry Yates published
US Rock critic Lester Bangs once described the song as “naïve, simplistic, absolute doggerel"
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