Black Sabbath ended their activities after the long world tour, The End – and Tony Iommi admits to having a greater share of responsibility in the decision to end the band's activities, as he stated in an interview with Planet Rock .
The guitarist explained that the reason is more related to the discomfort of touring. “It was basically my fault for ending [the band] because of touring. The problem is that, in a band of this size, you can’t just go and do shows for a week – you have to do an 18-month world tour,” he said (via Blabbermouth ).
“When you get to a year, you get tired. But you have to endure it for so long because you have a whole team to maintain, everyone has a job, so you can’t do a week of shows, have a month off and do another week, because you won’t get the team; they want a job,” he continued. “So, we did this for so long – one world tour after another. It was getting kind of tiring, even though we had our own plane and [were] in the best hotels – everything was perfect – it still gets tiring.”.
Following medical advice to slow down, Iommi spoke with his bandmates. “It wasn’t good for me to travel so much. I talked to the guys and said, ‘It’s probably time to wrap up now’ that extensive tour. So that’s what we actually did.”
Asked about the possibility of a band reunion, the guitarist left the question open. “You can never say never, right? We know that in this band we can’t say, ‘That will never happen again,’ because it’s happened every time we’ve said that,” he explained. “We never thought we’d get back with Ozzy Osbourne after the first few years. We never thought we’d have Ronnie James Dio again – and we did (…). You can never say it won’t happen.”
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