![]() ![]() ![]() Equally significant was Ozzy’s contribution to the band’s melodic development, his irrepressible performances providing Sabbath with a larger-than-life frontman that fans could identify with.įor the first seven years of the band’s career, the four-piece formed what was a truly invincible alliance that revolutionised heavy music and spawned countless imitators – most of whom failed to grasp the soulful power in Sabbath’s music. While Tony served up a steady supply of riffs that drove the band’s creative process, Bill and Geezer forged a remarkable partnership that lay at the very heart of Sabbath’s music. The allegiances Bill formed with his bandmates – both as musicians and as friends – would help create Sabbath’s unique dynamic both on and offstage. Within five months that band had folded and the pair had recruited bass player Geezer Butler and singer Ozzy Osbourne to form a band they first christened the Polka Tulk Blues Band, then Earth and, eventually, Black Sabbath. Just before his 16th birthday, he fell into the orbit of his future bandmate Tony Iommi with whom he began playing in earnest a few years later, when he joined Mythology in February 1968. BLACK SABBATH 13 FULLBy the age of 11 he’d become serious about playing and he began to soak up music that included rock’n’roll, blues and – just as significantly – big band jazz.īorn in Aston, Birmingham, on May 5, 1948, Bill immersed himself in a local scene that was full of remarkable drummers and included the likes of his friend, John Bonham (soon to join Led Zeppelin), Clive Bunker (Jethro Tull) and Jim Capaldi (Traffic). Bill Ward started banging things at the age of three, using a set of cardboard boxes before graduating to a cheap drum kit four years later. ![]()
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