The legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, whom we had the honor of meeting and interviewing at the end of last year when he was given a walk of stars, has kindly agreed to loan us one of his custom guitars for our next Home .
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Bill Ward, founding member and drummer of Black Sabbath, welcomes you to Home of Metal in this exclusive recording made on 7 June 2011.
Reflecting on his early days in Aston, he describes his musical apprenticeship in detail and with insightful honesty and reflection. Under .
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Birmingham and The Black Country are the Home of Metal because of a number of things. During our oral history interviews we have been inviting people to tell us their thoughts. There are many reasons, many observations that the people we speak to make and .
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Home of Metal recently visited Brian Tatler at his home in Stourbridge. Brian is guitarist in Diamond Head who are playing on the same bill as Metallica at the Sonisphere Festival in July.
Advert for 1981 tour. Lars Ulrich attended the final gig at the Woolwich .
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Two new oral history clips describing rock nights out in Wolverhampton.
The Giffard
1973 – Lots of hair at The Giffard (Arms) Wolverhampton by Home of Metal
Photo: Roger Kidd under license
And the Tavern in the Town.
Tavern on the Town and record shopping rituals by Home of Metal
Photo: .
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Home of Metal have just returned from collecting a batch of artefacts for our exhibition. Some of the images will be uploaded to our archive shortly. Here’s a sneak preview of the kind of items we obtained today: a full page Christmas message to readers .
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The Observer recently published a great interview with Robert Plant. The photos on this page are from our archive.
A collection of metal magazines all featuring Black Sabbath or Ozzy on the front cover have been uploaded to the archive.
Here at Home of Metal in Birmingham we are very interested in the way other towns celebrate their pop music heritage. We always pay close attention when we find examples of this activity on our travels.The sleepy market town of Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland is .
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Home of Metal recently visited Walsall Local History Centre. Walsall is a few miles north of Birmingham. Rob Halford grew up there and still owns a house in the town that he uses when visiting The Black Country. It was great to get back into .
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