Black Sabbath Guitarist Tony Iommi Strongly Denies Reunion Reports


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Former Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has moved to deny recent reports which had suggested plans for the four original members of the hard rock pioneers to reunite were well underway.

After the Birmingham Mail quoted Iommi as saying the band were already rehearsing for a new tour and planning an album, many news outlets picked up the news as expectations grew of an imminent Black Sabbath reunion.

However, Iommi has now used his official website to distance himself from the reports, claiming his quotes were taken out of context, and has apologised to his former bandmates for the confusion.

“I’m saddened that a Birmingham journalist whom I trusted has chosen this point in time to take a conversation we had back in June and make it sound like we spoke yesterday about a Black Sabbath reunion,” he wrote.

“At the time I was supporting the Home of Metal exhibition and was merely speculating, shooting the breeze, on something all of us get asked constantly, ‘Are you getting back together?'”

“Thanks to the internet it’s gone round the world as some sort of “official” statement on my part, absolute nonsense.  I hope he’s enjoyed his moment of glory, he won’t have another at my expense.”

“To my old pals, Ozzy, Geezer and Bill, sorry about this, I should have known better.”

After Ozzy Osbourne left the band under a cloud in 1979, the classic Black Sabbath line-up first underwent a short-lived reunion back in 1998.


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