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Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath , and was the band's guitarist, leader, primary composer, and sole continuous member for over five decades. He is considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal music and is responsible for inspiring numerous subgenres of metal, most notably doom metal. On his last day of work in a sheet metal factory, as a teenager, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an accident, an event which crucially impacted his playing style.

He briefly left Black Sabbath then known as Earth in to join Jethro Tull , but did not record any material with the band, and subsequently returned to Black Sabbath in In , he released his first solo album Iommi , followed by 's Fused , which featured his former bandmate Glenn Hughes. Born and raised in Handsworth , Birmingham, Iommi attended Birchfield Road School, where future bandmate Ozzy Osbourne was also a pupil one year behind him.

At about age 10, Iommi began working out and learned judo, karate, and later boxing as a means of protecting himself from the local gangs which congregated in his neighbourhood. After completing school, Iommi worked briefly as a plumber and later in a factory manufacturing rings. He stated that at one point he worked in a music store, but quit after being falsely accused of stealing.

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At the age of 17, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand his fret-board hand, since he is left-handed in an industrial accident on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory. It was just unbelievable. I sat in the hospital with my hand in this bag and I thought, that's it — I'm finished. But eventually I thought 'I'm not going to accept that.

There must be a way I can play'. As Iommi later wrote:.