Metal Anarchy

As previously reported, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne recently reunited to perform at the closing ceremony for this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Now, during a recent interview with BirminghamLive, Iommi offered an explanation for Geezer Butler’s absence from the event:

“I don’t think he wanted to come over as he hadn’t been well with Covid. He’d been on holiday to Kenya and to Italy and had had an accident on a boat, cracking or breaking a rib about three weeks ago, so he was not quite in fine fettle to come over to play. It’s a shame because we’d talked for a long time about the possibility of playing at the Commonwealth Games.”