![]() Tony Iommi, of course, later lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers in a factory accident as a teenager an injury that inadvertently shaped the very sound of heavy metal music thanks to Iommi’s crushing riffs.ĭelving into the band’s history, a segment of 50 Years tells the story of Black Sabbath’s embryonic years. The sons of the hammer were once her chief inhabitants”.Ī very apt newspaper report on metalworkers losing fingers in Birmingham, as Tony Iommi did.Įqually farsighted, a newspaper report details a growing trend of workers in the industrialised city losing fingers in machinery. There’s also a prophetic quote from Birmingham’s first significant historian William Hutton from 1723 about how ‘heavy metal’ is very much entrenched in the city’s blood “Birmingham begun with the production of the anvil, and probably will end with them. ![]() Along the walls are photos of bombed terraced houses, pictures of families living on the breadline and video interviews with all four Sabbath members talking about how their working-class upbringing in Aston moulded them. Telling the story of the very city where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward were born within a few streets of each other, a fascinating darkened video room screens archive footage of post-World War II Birmingham. Unlike other rock exhibitions, visitors aren’t funnelled down a chronological room-by-room journey through the band’s history instead the square space allows you to roam freely between Sabbath’s own artefacts and those donated by the fans at your own whim. ![]() A quote from Henry Rollins on the legacy of SabbathĮntering the cavernous Gas Hall exhibition space, the first thing you’re confronted with is the band’s name in gargantuan ‘Master of Reality’ font in fetching glittery gold.
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