Tony Iommi On Sabbath’s 1985 Live Aid Reunion: “It Was A Bit Surreal, To Be Honest…”

As part of a new SiriusXM Volume series celebrating the 35th anniversary of Live Aid, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been looking back at the heavy metal titans’ iconic original line-up reunion at the Philadelphia leg in 1985. The guitarist joined forces once more with Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward for the first time since 1978, running through Children Of The Grave, Iron Man and Paranoid in front of thousands of fans at the John F. Kennedy Stadium on July 13. Read this: The 50 best albums from 1990 “It was great,” Tony recalls on Live Aid Look Back: 35 Years Later. “It was great being with the guys again. It was a bit surreal, to be honest, because, basically, I had been in the studio working. It was an unusual thing for me to come...

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