Research Catalog

Title

Iron man : my journey through heaven and hell with Black Sabbath / Tony Iommi, with T.J. Lammers.

Author

Iommi, Tony.

Publication

Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Lammers, T. J.

Description

xiii, 383 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

The life and career of Tony Iommi, a rock guitarist for the band Black Sabbith.

Alternative Title

My journey through heaven and hell with Black Sabbath

Subject

• Black Sabbath (Musical group)
• Guitarists > England > Biography
• Heavy metal (Music)
• Iommi, Tony
• Rock musicians > England > Biography

Note

• "Reprinted by arrangement with Simon & Schuster UK"--T.p. verso.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The birth of a cub -- It's the Italian thing -- The shop on Park Lane -- The school of hard knocks -- Out of the shadows, into the limelight -- Why don't you just give me the finger? -- A career hanging off an extra thin string -- Meeting Bill Ward and the rest -- Job-hopping into nowhere -- How three angels saved heavy metal -- Things go horribly south up north -- Down to earth -- A flirt with Tull in a rock 'n' roll circus -- The early birds catch the first songs -- Earth to Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath records Black Sabbath -- Now under new management -- Getting paranoid -- Sabbath, Zeppelin and Purple -- This is America? -- Happy birthday witches to you -- Ozzy's shockers -- An antipodean murder mystery -- Flying fish -- Number 3, master of reality -- No, really, it's too much-- -- White lines and white suits -- Air Elvis -- Going snowblind -- This is your captain freaking -- A rather white wedding -- Going to the big house -- One against nature -- The well runs dry --^
• Sabbath bloody Sabbath -- The California jam -- Where did all the money go? -- Everything's being sabotaged! -- Bruiser in a boozer -- Me on ecstasy -- Ecstasy on tour -- We never say die -- Ozzy goes -- Susan's Scottish sect -- Dio does but Don don't -- Bill goes to shits -- Heaven and hell -- Ignition -- Vinny says aloha -- Getting black and blue -- Melinda -- Friends forever -- The mob rules -- The mob tours -- A Munster in the mix -- To the manor born again -- Size matters -- Last man standing -- The mysterious case of the lofty lodgers -- Lovely Lita -- Together again, for a day -- Twinkle twinkle seventh star -- Glenn falls, but there is a Ray of hope -- The quest for the eternal idol -- Taxman! -- Headless but happy -- Oh no, not caviar again! -- TYR and tired -- It's heaven and hell again -- Bound and shackled -- In harmony with cross purposes -- The one that should've been forbidden -- Flying solo with Glenn Hughes -- Living apart together -- The love of my life -- Reunion --^
• Cozy's crash -- Bill, Vinny, and Bill and Vinny -- Belching after a weenie roast -- Iommi, the album -- An audience with the Queen -- Hats off to Rob Halford -- Fused with Glenn again -- Entering the halls of fame -- This is for peace -- Heaven and hell, tour and band -- The devil you know -- Farewell to a dear friend -- Not a right-hand man -- A good place.

ISBN

• 9780306819551 (hbk.)
• 0306819554 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2011937165

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library