Episodio 40: Black Sabbath no stranger to love year 1986 English Version .

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00:00:52 - In another chapter of Classic Rocks All Time, we have Black Sabbath or the group of Tony

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00:01:11 - Finding Classic Rocks All Time the most incredible stories and anecdotes.

00:01:17 - Bruce Dickinson want to see us and you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it it's it's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy let me well it's felt differently everything is called old guzmatron.

00:01:47 - Rob Halford.

00:01:48 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important to try and...

00:01:59 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley.

00:02:01 - But piano was inconceivable I mean you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:02:09 - I think I was very driven period.

was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

00:02:41 - A record Tony Ionmi it's called, No Stranger To Love.

00:02:55 - Without the original members of him and separated the group, Tony Ionmi wanted to record a solo album.

00:03:01 - What was originally going to be like this, was finally published under the name Black

00:03:06 - Sabbath with the title featuring Tony Imi.

00:03:12 - The group that accompanies Tony is quite compact, Eric Sanger with the usual punch and class of him, Dave Spitz on bass and as almost always the keys are put by Jeff Nichols, a regular in the band.

00:03:25 - But the guest of choice was Glenn Q's who influenced the album with his incredible voice in his rock and blues ensemble.

00:03:36 - The album was recorded in 1987, under the Warner Brothers label, and under the influence of the directors of this company The album included the name Black Sabbath.

00:03:47 - When completed, Tony's seventh star was a much more polished and melodic record than most sabbaticals.

00:03:55 - Black Sabbath's 12th studio album Seventh Star, which came out on January 28, 1986, was never supposed to be a Sabbath record.

bassist Geyser Butler left the band in 1984, following the Born Again tour.

00:04:12 - Guitarist Tony IMA decided to write a solo album and then once the dust was cleared, he put Black Sabbath back together.

00:04:21 - In fact, IMA intentionally wrote songs that didn't sound like Black Sabbath, to expand his horizons.

00:04:29 - Overall 7th star is a basic hard rock record, with one foot firmly planted in Blues Rock and the other sliding between the rainbow and foreigner styles of heavy hard rock.

00:04:44 - Ime persevered and contacted Butler to try to get him to play on the record.

00:04:50 - His wife and manager Gloria agreed that it would be a good move, then the next thing

00:04:55 - Ime knew was that Geyser had signed Ozzy Osbourne to play in his solo group, leaving

00:05:00 - I Am Me, as the only original member of Sabbath to play on 7th Star.

00:05:05 - No Stranger to Love, was the first single from the album, promoted with a dark video, on MTV with a great acceptance by the public, who was not a fan or who had not heard Black Sabbath.

00:05:17 - It showed I Am Me with Denise Crosby, better known as Tasha Yar in Star Trek The Next Generation.

00:05:24 - As a film actor, I Am Me faced a woman betrayed, out of love, performing a performance that today must be ashamed and must want to forget. A sleepy soft rock track in the same vein of a powerful white snake ballad, but again, it's Hughes who makes the difference between this recording and the many hundreds of a rock albums that they tainted in the mid-1980s.

00:05:47 - But Hugh sings with fire and passion, a great voice and deep lyrics.

00:06:03 - Seventh Star peaked on the Billboard album chart at number 78 and fell rapidly.

00:06:09 - But looking back, Seventh Star can be appreciated on its own merits.

a good solo album and fairly labelled a black Sabbath LP in a period report.

00:06:19 - Well, basically I went with Don Arden, I went with him to Warner Brothers and we spoke with

00:06:31 - Warner Brothers and various people from Phonogram and stuff about the project and they were excited about it and it was a day I'm lost into my costume a president of

00:06:45 - Warren Brothers Sun who suggested that we should still carry on as Black Sabbath and use this album as a Black Sabbath album. Yeah that's right we did go in knowing that really thought well we knew Glenn's reputation as far as not being very reliable so we thought well let's give him a try and really see if he can cut it, and he seemed like he really wanted to do it, and he could cut it.

00:07:12 - Of course, as soon as we'd done the album, fine, we had a few problems.

00:07:16 - Yeah, he sings very well on the record. We should say that.

00:07:18 - And he is an excellent vocalist, but as soon as he got to touring situation, he just couldn't handle it at all.

00:07:25 - He took him out on the road in America, and what exactly happened?

00:07:27 - Yeah. Well, we took him out into the first week of the tour, first 10 days or whatever it was.

00:07:31 - Glenn was just in bits. He was vocals. He just couldn't sing. In fact, Jeff Nichols had a takeover on vocals while Glenn was standing there really.

00:07:42 - He just couldn't get any words out at all and we sent him to different doctors and we had doctors come into the shows.

00:07:51 - We sent him to psychiatrists. You name it, we sent him there.

and basically it seemed like he'd got such a fright, he was so frightened.

00:08:00 - I don't think he'd been on stage in that scale since Deep Purple, since 19...

00:08:05 - No, he hasn't really toured since those days, I don't think so seriously.

00:08:08 - So that was probably the last time he went on stage, in the big, big stage.

00:08:14 - But Glenn is also known to have problems with things like drinking drugs, like bill Ward.

00:08:18 - Those sort of things affect his performance, do you think, on the road?

00:08:21 - I think so, yes.

00:08:23 - Was it possible to keep him away from drinking drugs?

00:08:25 - No, I don't think he could keep anybody away from anything if they really wanted to do it.

00:08:29 - We put a 24-hour bodyguard with him to watch him 24 hours.

00:08:32 - And this guy slept in the next room, got into joining rooms.

00:08:38 - We put things on his door, so if he'd come out of his door, we'd know he's gone out, just to make sure he's okay, you know?

00:08:43 - Because he did have a habit of just disappearing and, you know, he'd come back.

00:08:47 - Would you say that Glenn Hughes has now cost you a lot of money because he's no longer in the band?

00:08:50 - I would say it's probably cost us about 300,000 or 400,000.

00:08:54 - Well, you've now got a new singer in the band, a guy called Ray Gillan, who's an American.

00:08:57 - Where did you find him from?

00:08:59 - America.

00:09:00 - From New York, as a matter of fact.

00:09:04 - When we were in rehearsal stages, just before we went on this tour, the bass player I got with the band Dave Spitz is from New York as well, and he heard this chap, Ray Gillan, in a club playing there, and he said he's really good.

00:09:19 - And so I had his phone number, and I asked Dave, I said, well, get him a tape of him so I can have a listen.

00:09:25 - And Ray wasn't too pleased, I'm giving us a tape.

00:09:28 - He said he'd sooner come along and sing to us personally.

00:09:31 - So that's as far as it went, so I said, no.

00:09:33 - And he got so on the road and we were doing the tour that when we realized Glenn couldn't do it anymore,

00:09:39 - I said to Dave, give us that phone number and I got the manager to call Ray and arrange to see him in New York when we were playing in New York to see him in a hotel there.

00:09:49 - So I met him at the hotel and everything seems to go, he seemed a nice chap and you know, he just seemed to know what he was talking about.

00:09:59 - And so I arranged for him the next two days to come along to the show.

00:10:03 - He came to the show on the evening in New York and he came to the next two dates with us.

00:10:11 - Glenn went separately in a car with his bodyguards.

00:10:13 - Was Glenn used to wear this guy and was hanging him out?

because we sent Glenn separately in a car with the bodyguard.

00:10:18 - And so the chap travelled on the bus with everybody else and got familiarised with the songs as we went on.

00:10:26 - And we got to rehearsals to the show and then had a sound check in the afternoon and tried him and tried a couple of numbers on the afternoon, he was good.

00:10:34 - I think everybody at the show must have been thinking, what's going on here, all the crews and all the, you know, the other band must have been thinking, what's happening, they're seeing it up there, yeah.

00:10:43 - Well, we'll be able to find out for ourselves

00:10:45 - That's what it is like fairly shortly because you're now poised to begin a European tour.

00:10:48 - That's right.

00:10:49 - Can you tell us which countries you're going to be visiting?

00:10:52 - Yeah, we'll be doing start-off in Belgium.

00:10:55 - And then we'll be doing Paris and Germany, Switzerland, or Sweden.

00:11:03 - Italy, two days in Italy and back to Germany.

00:11:07 - And then that's it. It's only about eight to ten days.

00:11:09 - What sort of a stage show are you going to be taking out with you at the moment?

trying to take out a very similar one to America but it's just trying to cut it down at the moment to fit in these halls. Is it true that you have a human sacrifice on stage? Not as far as I know unless there's any going to volunteer. I thought it might be the return of Glenn Hughes to the band or something. Well it could be if he turned up.

00:11:27 - No. You've got things like lasers, heavy stuff. We've got lasers and stuff. Yeah basically the set is on one side it's like an industrial setting with all chimneys and smoke coming out and stuff and you cross a bridge at the back by the drum riser and it comes to like a time machine affair where there's a spinning lasers and they go into a time tunnel and that's the idea of the audience presents the old stuff into the new stuff from the old to the new and using laser curtains and various I mean not too much effects really we don't want to overdo it with the smoke and bombs all that stuff you know we've done away with that now. So always it is his lights and lasers basically and just a bit of other little odds and ends. Okay well finally Tony you're the only original member of Black Sabbath stood in the band. Do you still think it's fair to keep the name going?

00:12:16 - Is it still the band that it was and that the fans would remember it as being?

00:12:21 - Well perhaps the newer fans might do now but I mean obviously people are going to always say that anyway. It's always going to be some you don't please mate but I've been in in the band ever since day one and I just believe there has to be a black

00:12:36 - Sabbath here. In my life it certainly does and the band at the moment are playing really excellent. In fact it reminds me of when we first started before when everybody's enthusiastic. So it's really good.

00:13:02 - Oh, this light, gone into a dream Cry for the light

00:13:31 - For the love that won't come

00:13:35 - You said that you'd never be real

00:13:44 - I gave you my heart

00:13:48 - You cried for myself

00:13:52 - An angel won't come

00:13:56 - This devil won't come

00:13:59 - Something is wrong, I just can't get away

00:14:08 - Living on the streets, I'm no stranger to love

00:14:15 - Why can't you see, I'm no stranger to love

00:14:23 - Living on the streets, I'm no stranger to love

00:14:29 - I'm a stranger in your arms

00:14:36 - I'm a stranger in your arms

00:14:46 - Maybe it's right, but I just can't understand

00:14:52 - The hand that I feel

00:14:56 - For my love's sake and hate

00:15:00 - No, I still live

00:15:03 - But I just can't walk away

00:15:08 - Living on the streets

00:15:10 - I'm no stranger to love

00:15:16 - Why can't you see

00:15:18 - I'm no stranger to love

00:15:23 - Living on the streets

00:15:25 - I'm no stranger to love

00:15:29 - I'm a stranger to love

00:15:36 - Oh yes, I'm a stranger to love

00:15:48 - Living on the street, I'm no stranger to her

00:16:15 - Why can't you see I'm no stranger to love?

00:16:23 - Building on the street, I'm no stranger to love

00:16:37 - Building on the street, I'm no stranger to love

00:16:46 - Why can't you see? I'm no stranger to love

00:16:54 - Building on the street, I'm no stranger to love

00:17:01 - Why can't you see, I'm no stranger to love

00:17:09 - Living on the street, I'm no stranger to love