Tony Iommi talks about his early days as a musician, cutting off his fingers in an industrial accident and his road to forming Black Sabbath.

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Before becoming a rock legend, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi worked in a sheet metal plant, where he lost the tips of two of his fingers in an accident. (It happened during his last day on ...

Iommi's memories of the incident are accompanied by the above animated clip, which is titled The Complete History of Heavy Metal: Fingers Bloody Fingers and seems to be the first in a planned ...

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6. It took until 2000 for Tony to put out a solo album. That year he released Iommi, followed by his second solo set in 2005, ...

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