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“I lost the tips of two fingers in an accident when I was 17. Doctors told me that I had no hope of playing guitar again. I refused to accept that”: The life and times of Tony Iommi, metal’s indestructible dark lord

If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different

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Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best

Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – from woeful worst to brilliant best

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“Eruption was my phone alarm for a while – we have a love-hate relationship because it woke me up every morning”: Sophie Lloyd names 10 guitarists who shaped her sound

The Machine Gun Kelly guitarist and Kiesel signature artist reveals what she learned from which players – and the techniques she’s still working on

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“I got to go backstage at the Whisky, and Joe Bonamassa knew who I was! I immediately took a picture and texted it to my dad”: Sophie Lloyd on the time she met Joe Bonamassa – her childhood guitar hero

Lloyd looks back on the time her dad would play Joe Bonamassa records while driving her to school

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"It's adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall": Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes have recorded a song with Robbie Williams

Former Take That star Robbie Williams has confirmed the unlikely collaboration

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"I was lying in bed at about three in the morning when an axe smashed through my door": Deep Purple’s 25 maddest moments

Life in Deep Purple has never been dull

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“John Wayne said: ‘My daughter would be so happy to get your autographs.’ So David Coverdale and I signed his cowboy boots”: Glenn Hughes’ wild tales of Ritchie Blackmore, David Bowie, Phil Lynott and The Duke

Bowie, Blackmore, Richard Burton and Linda Blair – Glenn Hughes has crossed paths with them all

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“I had a meltdown. Cocaine psychosis took over – it’s a form of paranoid schizophrenia”: How Deep Purple split from Ritchie Blackmore and made a funky masterpiece in Come Taste The Band

Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most under-rated album of their career

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“We were in LA getting ready for a gig and I said, ‘Where’s Glenn?’ He’d gone to Atlanta. He was a loon, just through doing so much coke and drinking”: How Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes rekindled their turbulent friendship to make Fused

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes reunited in 2005 to make the Fused album

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"Glenn Hughes might just have saved Iommi from terminal creative frustration": Tony Iommi unveils new skills on Fused and The DEP Sessions

The solo adventures of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, revisited

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“Joe and I had been hanging out, secretively making music, knowing that one day we'd do something. Four sessions later, we had an album”: How Glenn Hughes brought his low-end expertise into the spotlight with Joe Bonamassa and Black Country Communion

The ageless rock veteran with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath recorded his most bass-intensive disc alongside guitarist Joe Bonamassa

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Our tiny minds have just been blown by a man playing Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) on a whammy clavinet

Australian keyboardist Lachy "The Hendrix of the keyboard" Doley does things we've never seen done before

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"A case of what might have been": The Dead Daisies revert to meat-and-potatoes type on Light Em Up

After inspired work with Glenn Hughes on board, Dead Daisies album seven is a step backwards

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"It now pushes more air, flaps more trouser leg": The Orange AD200B bass amp comes back redesigned, revamped and reimagined

Geddy Lee and Glenn Hughes favourite gets a refresh, along with speaker cabs

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"There's magic in this band. There is real magic with these four members": Black Country Communion and the proud return of classic rock

Black Country Communion's new album V is the best one they’ve made so far. But will it be their last?

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Tony Iommi to re-release his two solo albums recorded with Glenn Hughes

The 1996 DEP Sessions and Fused will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in October

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"I was left standing alone in the dark,trying to match up to these iconicsingers that had gone before": The chaotic tale of Black Sabbath's Tony Martin era

Dio was out, Gillan was gone, Geezer had given up, and Ozzy had declared war. Light came in the shape of Tony Martin, and the next chapter in Black Sabbath's story

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“This will possibly be the last band that I’m in”: legendary ex-Deep Purple man Glenn Hughes says his current group could be his last

Black Country Communion’s Glenn Hughes admits that his days of playing in bands could be coming to an end

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"Even now, I have no idea how we got Vincent Price or Twiggy": The night Roger Glover assembled three Deep Purple singers and a cast of stars for a performance based on an old children’s poem

When Roger Glover was asked to soundtrack a film based on a poem by a 19th century botanist, little did he know that soon it would become a one-off live extravaganza

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“Do I get advantages that other collectors don’t? Absolutely! But I just got a 1959 Les Paul from a music store in Boston. Anybody could have walked in and bought it”: Joe Bonamassa on why he’s no ’Burst hog – and putting on his “British hat” with BCC

Joe Bonamassa checks in to tell us what it’s like to playing in rock supergroup Black Country Communion, why his rig is bigger for his solo shows, and channeling Andy Summers

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The new issue of Classic Rock is an AC/DC 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Also in this issue: Heart, Black Country Communion, Allman Brothers, Ian Hunter, Manic Street Preachers, ELP, Black Crowes, Anvil, Marcus King, Lindisfarne, Lemon Twigs, Mitch Ryder and more

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“Bowie drove me down to the audition to meet Tommy… I saw this guy with green and purple hair”: Glenn Hughes recalls meeting Tommy Bolin at his tense Deep Purple audition

Glenn Hughes might not be on the best of terms with Deep Purple, but he fondly remembers his friendship with guitarist Tommy Bolin

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"I will never speak to any of them again":Glenn Hughes slams Deep Purple for "hurtful" behaviour at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony

"I was the only sober man there. I don't care about those guys" - Glenn Hughes

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"Seven years on from their previous album, BCC still remember what they're good at": Black Country Communion stick to a winning formula on V

V is the fifth album from the retro-styled supergroup featuring Bonham, Bonamassa, Hughes and Sherinian

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“I played House of the Rising Sun in my fifth-grade talent show. Afterward Stevie Ray Vaughan walked up and said, ‘I play guitar, too’ and our friendship began”: Meet Rocky Athas, the guitarist who went to school with SRV and inspired Brian May to tap

The Texan player recalls how Queen witnessed his trick-filled live show, jamming with Double Trouble and filling Clapton’s shoes in John Mayall’s band

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