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Black Sabbath's 11th release 1986's: SEVENTH STAR
...This album's full title is "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi" because at the end of the ill-fated BORN AGAIN tour, the band called it quits.
...Iommi decided to go it alone with a solo career, after all,that
was working out great for both Ozzy and Dio, why not for Tony?
Then LIVE AID happened... the original line-up of Ozzy,Iommi,
Geezer, and Bill Ward accepted an invitation to perform to the largest
television audience in history. They played a short set of classics and
seemed happy to do it...all smiles.
But there was no full scale reunion despite the rumours...and Iommi's
solo project was back on.
He hired a band including Eric Singer on drums, Dave Spitz on bass,
long term Iommi employee:Keyboard player Geoff Nichols and the suprising
choice in yet another Ritchie Blackmore cast off: former Trapeze and
Deep Purple singer/bassist Glenn Hughes.
It was after they had recorded SEVENTH STAR that record company
management coerced Iommi into using the Black Sabbath name.
...SEVENTH STAR released to luke warm critical reception, and
slow sales. The long time fans mostly hated it.
It didn't sound like their beloved Sabbath. The production was too
slick ...too 80's commercial-rock sounding, and who was this soul-singer?
If taken as a Tony Iommi solo record and not Black Sabbath. Then it
is actually pretty good!
The first song "In for the Kill" is a fast rocker in the Iommi tradition,it's a strong opener but only 2 songs later is another fast one with nearly
the same drum beat and tempo "Turn to Stone".
In between these is the single-ready, radio-friendly, "No Stranger to Love"
that ran as an MTV video alongside hair-metal bands... not a bad song
really concidering it was designed with sales in mind.
The title track "Seventh Star"'s hypnotic droning mid-tempo guitar riff
acompanied by a sterling vocal from Hughes is one of the highlights followed
by "Danger Zone" a convincing rock tune with another good showing
by both Iommi and Hughes.
But the twin peaks on this disc are the bluesy "Heart Like a Wheel",
and the suite "Angry Heart/In Memory..." which features an excellent
guitar solo by Iommi and very soulful-emotive singing by the underrated
Glenn Hughes.
... Where this project falls apart is in Iommi's taking this band on the road as Black Sabbath.
Glenn Hughes and Tony Iommi were both deeply involved in cocaine
addictions... and Hughes's singing style was not at all suited to
Black Sabbath's songbook... in addition to that Glenn got into a drunken
fist fight with one of the touring crew members only days before
the tour was set to launch.
The fight resulted in broken bones in Hughes's face killing
the voice that drink and drugs had already made weak.
Iommi fired Hughes after a mere handful of gigs.
Replacing him with magificent unknown singing talent Ray Gillen to
finish out the tour and to record the next Sabbath album.
Ray Gillen left before the project was complete, jumping ship
to form a new band, Badlands,with former Ozzy ax-man Jake E Lee,
and died of Aids a few short years later.
...2011 saw the release of Deluxe Editions of both SEVENTH STAR and
the following Black Sabbath release ETERNAL IDOL.
Each contains bonus material featuring Ray Gillen's time in Sabbath
with a concert recording, and studio demo's.
...Tony Iommi kept the Sabbath name alive with an ever evolving
roster of musicians for years after with mixed results.
Leaving SEVENTH STAR as another failed chapter in the
history of Black Sabbath, but taken on it's own terms an
enjoyable 80's style rock album.
-Kevin Baird
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