Year: 2011
Author: Tony Iommi with T.J. Lammers
Genre: Autobiography
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 978-0-306-82054-0
English language
Format:MOBI
Number of pages: 303
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Iron Man chronicles the story of both pioneering guitarist Tony Iommi and legendary band Black Sabbath, dubbed “The Beatles of heavy metal” by Rolling Stone. Iron Man reveals the man behind the icon yet still captures Iommi’s humor, intelligence, and warmth. He speaks honestly and unflinchingly about his rough-and-tumble childhood, the accident that almost ended his career, his failed marriages, personal tragedies, battles with addiction, band mates, famous friends, newfound daughter, and the ups and downs of his life as an artist.
Everything associated with hard rock happened to Black Sabbath first: the drugs, the debauchery, the drinking, the dungeons, the pressure, the pain, the conquests, the company men, the contracts, the combustible drummer, the critics, the comebacks, the singers, the Stonehenge set, the music, the money, the madness, the metal.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The birth of a Cub
Chapter 2 - It’s the Italian thing
Chapter 3 - The shop on Park Lane
Chapter 4 - The school of hard knocks
Chapter 5 - Out of The Shadows, into the limelight
Chapter 6 - Why don’t you just give me the finger?
Chapter 7 - A career hanging off an extra thin string
Chapter 8 - Meeting Bill Ward and The Rest
Chapter 9 - Job-hopping into nowhere
Chapter 10 - How three angels saved heavy metal
Chapter 11 - Things go horribly south up north
Chapter 12 - Down to Earth
Chapter 13 - A flirt with Tull in a Rock ’n’ Roll Circus
Chapter 14 - The early birds catch the first songs
Chapter 15 - Earth to Black Sabbath
Chapter 16 - Black Sabbath records Black Sabbath
Chapter 17 - Now under new management
Chapter 18 - Getting Paranoid
Chapter 19 - Sabbath, Zeppelin and Purple
Chapter 20 - This is America?
Chapter 21 - Happy birthday witches to you
Chapter 22 - Ozzy’s shockers
Chapter 23 - An Antipodean murder mystery
Chapter 24 - Flying fish
Chapter 25 - Number 3, Master of Reality
Chapter 26 - No, really, it’s too much . . .
Chapter 27 - White lines and white suits
Chapter 28 - Air Elvis
Chapter 29 - Going Snowblind
Chapter 30 - This is your captain freaking . . .
Chapter 31 - A rather white wedding
Chapter 32 - Going to the big house
Chapter 33 - One against nature
Chapter 34 - The well runs dry
Chapter 35 - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Chapter 36 - The California Jam
Chapter 37 - Where did all the money go?
Chapter 38 - Everything’s being Sabotaged!
Chapter 39 - Bruiser in a boozer
Chapter 40 - Me on Ecstasy
Chapter 41 - Ecstasy on tour
Chapter 42 - We Never Say Die
Chapter 43 - Ozzy goes
Chapter 44 - Susan’s Scottish sect
Chapter 45 - Dio does but Don don’t
Chapter 46 - Bill goes to shits
Chapter 47 - Heaven and Hell
Chapter 48 - Ignition
Chapter 49 - Vinny says Aloha
Chapter 50 - Getting Black and Blue
Chapter 51 - Melinda
Chapter 52 - Friends forever
Chapter 53 - The Mob Rules
Chapter 54 - The Mob tours
Chapter 55 - A Munster in the mix
Chapter 56 - To The Manor Born Again
Chapter 57 - Size matters
Chapter 58 - Last man standing
Chapter 59 - The mysterious case of the lofty lodgers
Chapter 60 - Lovely Lita
Chapter 61 - Together again, for a day
Chapter 62 - Twinkle twinkle Seventh Star
Chapter 63 - Glenn falls, but there is a Ray of hope
Chapter 64 - The quest for The Eternal Idol
Chapter 65 - Taxman!
Chapter 66 - Headless but happy
Chapter 67 - Oh no, not caviar again!
Chapter 68 - TYR and tired
Chapter 69 - It’s Heaven and Hell again
Chapter 70 - Bound and shackled
Chapter 71 - In harmony with Cross Purposes
Chapter 72 - The one that should’ve been Forbidden
Chapter 73 - Flying solo with Glenn Hughes
Chapter 74 - Living apart together
Chapter 75 - The love of my life
Chapter 76 - Reunion
Chapter 77 - Cozy’s crash
Chapter 78 - Bill, Vinny, and Bill and Vinny
Chapter 79 - Belching after a Weenie Roast
Chapter 80 - Iommi, the album
Chapter 81 - An audience with the Queen
Chapter 82 - Hats off to Rob Halford
Chapter 83 - Fused with Glenn again
Chapter 84 - Entering the Halls of Fame
Chapter 85 - This is for peace
Chapter 86 - Heaven and Hell, tour and band
Chapter 87 - The Devil You Know
Chapter 88 - Farewell to a dear friend
Chapter 89 - Not a right-hand man
Chapter 90 - A good place
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright Page
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