Black Sabbath and the Last Great Rock Spectacle
The old boys bowed out in style
Rock reunion tours are almost always cynical cash grabs. In the case of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne rejoining guitarist Tony Iommi and bass player Geezer Butler in 1997 (without, at the time, original drummer Bill Ward), felt more like the band righting a series of wrongs committed by the members who stayed on after Osbourne’s first replacement as sing…
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