HEAVEN & HELL | ex Black Sabbath | Albums | 320

HEAVEN & HELL — the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar),
Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) —
were the featured guests on the April 29 edition of the nationally syndicated radio show
"Rockline" with host Bob Coburn. The program is now available for streaming at this location.

Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi have both said some less than kind things about working
with singer Ozzy Osbourne in a new interview with Decibel magazine. The pair recently
completed a new studio album as HEAVEN & HELL, the post-Ozzy version of SABBATH
featuring vocalist Ronnie James Dio, and Butler said that working with Dio was much easier
than Osbourne. He explained, "Ronnie's a songwriter in his own right — he's got tons of ideas.
Whereas Ozzy . . . in the old days, he'd come up with a vocal line and I'd write the lyrics.
Ronnie is 100 percent involved in both the musical side and the vocal side, and he writes his
own lyrics as well."

Butler added that Osbourne didn't take him seriously as a songwriter, saying, "If we were with
Ozzy and I came in with the killer riff of all time, Ozzy wouldn't even think of doing it because
I'm not the guitarist and that's the way he thinks . . . That's why it was so bloody hard to write
anything."

Butler said about HEAVEN & HELL's upcoming CD, "The Devil You Know", "If we'd written this
album with Ozzy, we'd still be working on the first track."

Iommi added that there was a sharp difference between the singers live as well, saying, "It was
great being with Ozzy on the road . . . but with Ronnie it's a lot different, because we go out
and we know exactly what we're gonna be doing. With Ozzy, we didn't really know. It was touch
and go sometimes on some of those early shows, whether he was gonna turn up, if he'd be
able to sing, if his voice was gone, or what. We'd have to cancel shows, which Geezer and myself
really hated. But with Ronnie, we've never canceled a show."

HEAVEN & HELL will tour South America and Europe this spring and summer, with North American
dates likely for the fall.

Notes:
All four members of Heaven & Hell are on this edition of Rockline to promote their latest release,
"The Devil You Know."

So as to not violate DIME policy all album tracks have been removed. Tracks 2, 4, 8, 10, 12 & 15
only contain introductory &/or closing remarks about the tracks.