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“People thought, ‘Not another actor who thinks he can sing!’, but I proved I could carry it off.” How Dracula, Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings legend Christopher Lee became a heavy metal star in his 80s

From inspiring Black Sabbath to golfing with Alice Cooper, Sir Christopher Lee was an icon in metal circles. Then, aged 87, he finally released a heavy album of his own.

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10 bands who peaked with the first song on their first album

Some bands just get it right first time

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"There’s a tape of us doing Black Sabbath covers. I hope that never surfaces, we were appalling." - Tinyfish come clean

The ‘world’s smallest prog band’, the south-eastern UK crew Tinyfish get curiouser and curiouser.

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“I don't know whether we played it properly, but the audience loved it”: When Black Sabbath regularly covered Smoke on the Water – and unwittingly inspired Spinal Tap's Stonehenge

Sabbath's ill-fated Born Again tour featured comically oversized props “as big as the real Stonehenge”, onstage spills, and a crowd-pleasing hard-rock crossover

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10 metalheads in movies and TV that break all the cliches

Hollywood likes to portray metalheads as either bullies or dimwits. These 10 movie and TV characters smash all the stereotypes.

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Watch Shane Hawkins play drums on Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and Black Sabbath songs with Taylor Hawkins’ cover band, Chevy Metal

The young drummer delivered a solo on Moby Dick, and the band were joined by Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach

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“If it hadn’t been for music, I’d have ended up killing myself”: the epic life and turbulent times of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler

An epic career-spanning interview with Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler

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$“Ozzy had been to school with Tony and they hated each other.” Geezer Butler on the fractious early days of Black Sabbath$

“Ozzy had been to school with Tony and they hated each other.” Geezer Butler on the fractious early days of Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi had to iron out some old feuds from the playground before the heavy metal pioneers could get going

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“AC/DC are the real deal”: Kiss frontman Paul Stanley picks his favourite AC/DC album – but what’s he gone for?

The Kiss frontman and guitarist says AC/DC "hit me like the first time I heard Black Sabbath".

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Geezer Butler recalls the time a stage invader with a knife tried to "sacrifice" Tony Iommi at a Black Sabbath show

Ex-Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler remembers when a "lunatic" stage-jumper tried to attack Tony Iommi with a knife at a Black Sabbath show in Nashville

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“An official Vampire now”: Tony Iommi played Paranoid with Joe Perry, Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper at The Hollywood Vampires’ recent UK show

The Black Sabbath legend dropped in on the band’s Birmingham, UK show and proved he has lost none of his chops since retiring from touring

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Here's a collection of classic album covers made out of Lego

Music fan and artist Adnan Lotia has reinterpreted legendary sleeves including Metallica, Motörhead and Black Sabbath using the iconic plastic bricks

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See Tony Iommi become an honoury 'Vampire' as he joins Johnny Depp, Joe Perry and Alice Cooper to perform Black Sabbath's Paranoid in Birmingham

The Sabbath legend guested with the Hollywood Vampires supergroup

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"It was an utterly ridiculous idea": Geezer Butler on the embarrassing truth behind Black Sabbath's infamous Stonehenge set, their unfortunate 'devil baby' and Spinal Tap

"People often ask if I've seen the film This Is Spinal Tap. I always reply, 'Seen it? I lived it'."

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Ozzy Osbourne pulls out of Power Trip festival due to health concerns: ‘I’m just not ready yet’

Black Sabbath frontman suffered a spinal injury in 2019

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Tony Iommi admits that, yes, sometimes he got carried away playing guitar solos – but Ronnie James Dio was his enabler

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‘”

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Mysterious Black Sabbath Paranoid-era live album quietly surfaces on Spotify

Nuit Noire features material from their first two albums and arrives with zero fanfare

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“Ozzy did a great big turd on his car”: how Ozzy Osbourne got his revenge on a promoter who refused to pay him after a disastrous gig

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler looks back on his disastrous first gig with Ozzy Osbourne – and the ‘dirty protest’ that followed

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Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants launch charity auction with memorabilia from Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Kiss and more

Download Festival and The Heavy Metal Truants kick off a huge auction in aid of kids charities, with items from some of the biggest name in metal up for grabs

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"It’s basically this story of rags to riches" - Behind the scenes at the Black Sabbath ballet

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and the project’s creative team explain what the hell is on on at the Black Sabbath ballet

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"We'd spend all day farting about and end up with nothing usable": the aggravating story of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Write some songs, get into studio, come out with an album. It worked before. But when it came to making the follow-up to Vol. 4, Black Sabbath couldn’t even get started

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A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Tina Turner, Star Fleet Project, Scorpions, Billy Gibbons, Geezer Butler, Drive-By Truckers, Vintage Trouble, The Alarm, Luke Morley, Buckcherry and more

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Ozzy Osbourne says he's "thrilled to bits" that the British public have voted to name a 10 metre-high mechanical metal bull 'Ozzy' in his honour

A huge mechanical bull created for the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been named after proud Brummie, and ex-Black Sabbath frontman, Ozzy Osbourne

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There's a reason Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler doesn't have tattoos, and it involves Nazis

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler reveals why an incident from his childhood means he's never been interested in getting a tattoo

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"If an arrow has been shot at me, I shoot it back..." The life and career of Ronnie James Dio, in his own words

The amazing life and career of a true metal legend, as explained by the man himself

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