Tony Iommi attended a rehearsal of the Birmingham Royal Ballet , which is preparing the show Black Sabbath – The Ballet . And the guitarist and founder of Black Sabbath was full of praise:
"I loved it. It's so different, and it's something that many people didn't expect to see, including me."
Iommi commented that he had never been to a ballet performance in his life, "but to come here, and work with these people, and see it, is simply fantastic."
Black Sabbath – The Ballet will perform at the Hippodrome Theatre in Birmingham from September 20th to 30th. The show will feature 8 re-orchestrated Black Sabbath songs, all from the band's first 5 albums:
“Paranoid” ( Paranoid , 1970)
“Iron Man” (Paranoid, 1970)
“War Pigs” ( Paranoid , 1970)
“Black Sabbath” ( Black Sabbath , 1970)
“Solitude” ( Master Of Reality , 1971)
“Orchid” ( Master Of Reality , 1971)
“Laguna Sunrise” ( Vol. 4 , 1972)
“Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” ( Sabbath Bloody Sabbath , 1973)
"I never thought, not for a minute, that there would be people who would dance to 'War Pigs' and 'Iron Man'," concludes Tony Iommi, the Iron Man of Black Sabbath.
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