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‘John’ doll inspired by 1969/1970 era Ozzy Osbourne.

Bill Ward's silver ring with black stone. Given personally to me on the aftershow of the last December 1999 Birmingham Nec show ("Reunion Tour"). Im a professional Heavy Metal writer and photographer (since 1992), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina...

Artwork for Geezer Butler made by a friend and which I got to get Geezer sign in person backstage at London's Wembley Arena on 10/11/2007 after I was solely taken by the band management to Iommi's and Geezer's private bus.

Harry Barber's memories of Music Machine are more detailed than Ozzy's account on page 49 of the autobiography I Am Ozzy.

I made this artwork in 2011 celebrating Iommi's forthcoming autobiography book entitled 'Iron man : My Life with Black Sabbath & Beyond'. The artwork simply presents Iommi's through different eras and decades with Sabbath , he is shown in the early days with his famous Gibson 'Monkey' SG , while the later years shown with his Jaydee 'Old Boy' custom guitar. If a high quality resolution of this artwork needed to any 'Home of Metal' project I will be more than pleased to send it over.

Not many people can say theyve shared a stage with Tony at a live event !

A signed photograph of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi

Dennis Wheatley novel

Me, Tony, Brum Town Hall, Top night!

I created this artwork for Geezer Butler and had it printed out on a custom shirt as a special gift for my all time bass hero in Christmas 2011 , obviously everyone knows how Geezer tends to be one of Aston Villa's biggest cheering fans , I jokingly had Geezer quoted " If it wasn't for Tony , Bill and Ozzy , I would have named Black Sabbath the Aston Villians !" I added his Ampeg bass amp along with one of his new custom Yamaha bass guitars that I saw him use on Heaven & Hell's Ronnie James Dio tribute show at London's High Voltage festival on 24/07/2011. If a high quality resolution of this artwork needed to any 'Home of Metal' project I will be more than pleased to send it over.

I made this artwork for Geezer as his Christmas gift in 2010 , it was posted on his official website for a brief time along with one of his personal pictures cheering Aston Villa after The Carling cup final in 2010 and which Aston Villa lost to Manchester United 0-1. It jokingly has Geezer saying 'If It wasn't for booze, women and Black Sabbath, I would have been a player in Aston Villa.' !

This is a drawing that I made as a tribute for Tony, he one of my heros \m/

Ozzy Osbourne musical jack in the box (2001)

Ozzy Osbourne action figure, 1999

I made this modified Heaven & Hell artwork specifically to be presented to the band as gifts during backstage at London's wembley arena on 10/11/2007 , I was solely taken after their show to Iommi's & Geezer's private bus to present them these framed artworks while Ronnie James Dio was later so overwhelmed with the sarcastic artwork backstage that I was told he kept telling everyone about it for a whole week after ! Ronnie couldn't help himself laughing at Iommi's smoking angel.

Rare photograph of Black Sabbath during recording of their self-titled album at Regent Sound Studio (1969)