Iron Man

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Written by: Black Sabbath
Produced by: Roger Bain
Released: Feb. '71 on Warner
Charts: 10 weeks
Top spot: No. 52

When an industrial accident left guitarist Tony Iommi without the tips of two of his fingers, it seemed like death for Black Sabbath. But he fashioned replacements out of pieces of a bottle and developed a playing style that would yield the riff that would define heavy metal forever.

Appears on: Paranoid (Warner Bros.)

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