Tony Iommi ‘Bill Ward made Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath firing worse’ | Music | Entertainment

Tony confessed how Black Sabbath had to have a serious conversation as a band asking: “What are we going to do? Nothing’s happening. It came about that either we break up or we replace Ozzy.”

He continued: “It was very sad really. We said we were going to do it all together and of course Bill [Ward, drummer] stepped in on his own, which made it look worse. It was difficult for us. Really difficult. But y’know out of that was goodness for Ozzy and for us. It make him get off his arse, pull himself together and do something with his own album, which he did – it was really good. And it gave us the fighting end to do something, because we had to prove something. When we had Dio, we wrote the Heaven and Hell album, which pulled us back on again.”

Express.co.uk also previously spoke to Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler who shared that Ozzy’s firing left him in tears.

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