Black Sabbath played their last show on February 4, 2017.
Just over a year after Black Sabbath played their last show on February 4, 2017, in their hometown (Birmingham, England), legendary guitarist Tony Iommi spoke about his desire to return to songwriting. "Regarding music, I definitely want to get back to composing. But currently I'm doing a lot of charity work ," he said in an interview with The Midlands Rocks.
“I’m working with Heartlands Hospital, which is part of the Heart of England Foundation Trust, and also with Wythall Animal Sanctuary, and both are very important to me. I just try to help when I can at the hospital; we’re trying to raise money now to buy beds for patients who are undergoing chemotherapy.”
In the conversation, the musician also explained how he felt when the tour was coming to an end. “I didn’t really care much until the last few shows, actually, because it seemed like we were doing it like always – that we would finish the tour and then after a few months we would start planning the next one. But that didn’t happen, you know. There were those moments when I suddenly realized that this would be the last time we would perform a certain song, and that got to me.”