Table of Contents
Introduction: The Sound of Heavy Metal xi
1 The birth of a Cub 1
2 It's the Italian thing 4
3 The shop on Park Lane 7
4 The school of hard knocks 10
5 Out of The Shadows, into the limelight 15
6 Why don't you just give me the finger? 20
7 A career hanging off an extra thin string 25
8 Meeting Bill Ward and The Rest 28
9 Job-hopping into nowhere 31
10 How three angels saved heavy metal 33
11 Things go horribly south up north 35
12 Down to Earth 40
13 A flirt with Tull in a Rock 'n' Roll Circus 48
14 The early birds catch the first songs 53
15 Earth to Black Sabbath 56
16 Black Sabbath records Black Sabbath 60
17 Now under new management 67
18 Getting Paranoid 71
19 Sabbath, Zeppelin and Purple 76
20 This is America? 79
21 Happy birthday witches to you 81
22 Ozzy's shockers 85
23 An Antipodean murder mystery 88
24 Flying fish 91
25 Number 3, Master of Reality 93
26 No, really, it's too much ... 97
27 White lines and white suits 102
28 Air Elvis 105
29 Going Snowblind 107
30 This is your captain freaking ... 114
31 A rather white wedding 116
32 Going to the big house 120
33 One against nature 124
34 The well runs dry 126
35 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 133
36 The California Jam 137
37 Where did all the money go? 141
38 Everything's being Sabotaged! 145
39 Bruiser in a boozer 149
40 Me on Ecstasy 155
41 Ecstasy on tour 159
42 We Never Say Die 163
43 Ozzy goes 171
44 Susan's Scottish sect 174
45 Dio does but Don don't 177
46 Bill goes to shits 181
47 Heaven and Hell 186
48 Ignition 193
49 Vinny says Aloha 195
50 Getting Black and Blue 199
51 Melinda 203
52 Friends forever 206
53 The Mob Rules 208
54 The Mob tours 214
55 A Munster in the mix 217
56 To The Manor Born Again 220
57 Size matters 227
58 Last man standing 235
59 The mysterious case of the lofty lodgers 238
60 Lovely Lita 242
61 Together again, for a day 244
62 Twinkle twinkle Seventh Star 246
63 Glenn falls, but there is a Ray of hope 251
64 The quest for the Eternal Idol 255
65 Taxman! 263
66 Headless but happy 268
67 Oh no, not caviar again! 273
68 TYR and tired 279
69 It's Heaven and Hell again 281
70 Bound and shackled 285
71 In harmony with Cross Purposes 291
72 The one that should've been Forbidden 296
73 Flying solo with Glenn Hughes 301
74 Living apart together 304
75 The love of my life 309
76 Reunion 313
77 Cozy's crash 318
78 Bill, Vinny, and Bill and Vinny 320
79 Belching after a Weenie Roast 325
80 Iommi, the album 328
81 An audience with the Queen 332
82 Hats off to Rob Halford 336
83 Fused with Glenn again 339
84 Entering the Halls of Fame 341
85 This is for peace 344
86 Heaven and Hell, tour and band 347
87 The Devil You Know 351
88 Farewell to a dear friend 356
89 Not a right-hand man 359
90 Good news and bad 365
91 Coming out the other side 377
92 Reflections 381
Acknowledgements 385
Index 387