Duff McKagan Shares His Love for Black Sabbath

Duff McKagan shares his love for Black Sabbath

The Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan has been a huge fan of Black Sabbath, band originally formed in Birmingham, England in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. He grew up listening to them, learned to play their songs and also enjoyed the Ronnie James Dio era as he said during a Q&A session. Duff McKagan shares his love for Black Sabbath "When I was a little kid, FM radio started, and I had all these older siblings.…

Birmingham gets ready to celebrate Black Sabbath's final show with a long weekend of performances

The upcoming final Black Sabbath performance is a hugely momentous occasion, not only for Sabbath fans, not only for Birmingham, but mostly for the bands, musicians and audiences that, since the 1960s, have established Birmingham as THE UK HOME OF ROCK & ROLL! And that demands to be celebrated… Let’s welcome them home and reward Birmingham’s rock fans – the best in the UK – with an extravaganza of live music. With 25 performances, 22 of them fre…