Iron Man
My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The name 'Tony Iommi' sends shivers down the spines of guitarists around the world.
As lead guitarist and songwriter of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the past four decades and the inventor of heavy metal. From working class, Midlands roots, his unique playing style - a result of a disfiguring hand injury he suffered working in a sheet metal factory - created a dark and gothic sound unlike anything that had been heard before and which captured the mood of its time. Sabbath went on to become a superband, playing to massive audiences around the world and selling millions of records, and Iommi led the life of a rockstar to the fullest - with the scars from all the drug-fuelled nights of excess and wildness to show for it.
Iron Manis the exclusive account of the life and adventures of one of rock's greatest heroes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
While there are other books that offer more detail about the band, lead guitarist and songwriter Iommi's chronicle is an important addition to the Black Sabbath story. Even early Sabbath detractors recognized that Iommi's pummeling riffs in songs like "Iron Man" and "War Pigs" powerfully delivered by lead singer Ozzy Osborne defined the Sabbath sound. Iommi's autobiography is as direct as his music, beginning with his description of losing the two middle fingers on his left hand in an industrial press accident as a teenager in the early days of the band, which, he notes, some people credit with creating "the deeper, down-tuned sound" of the band "I had to reinvent my style of playing to accommodate the pain." The book's main virtue is its straightforward, year-by-year account of the band's history, from early struggles ("When we recorded Paranoid I still lived at home") through the band's breakup with Ozzy in 1979 ("There were so many drugs flying around, coke and Quaaludes and Mandrax, and there was booze and late nights and women and everything else") to Iommi's post-Ozzy versions of Sabbath and various solo projects.
