Black Sabbath: Technical Knock-out
Steven Rosen, Sounds, 22 January 1977
TONY IOMMI walked into the Hollywood Holiday Inn dining room like some living zombie. One wondered, actually, why the Warner Bros. publicist had set up an interview at 10 am. With the hectic schedules most rock artists followed, it's likely that few of them ever rose before noon. And the Black Sabbath guitarist was living (or almost) proof that such an hour did not meet this approval.
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