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Historian tells of frustration after four book events were cancelled over fears of far right violence

‘It’s like we are back at the stage where the far right are strong enough and scary enough that it’s not possible to sit in a bookshop and give a talk about music and history,’ Joe Mulhall says

The Independent UK

Literary body defends award for father of Ta-Nehisi Coates after accusations of republishing antisemitic work

National Book Foundation said it ‘supports freedom of expression‘

The Independent UK

A year in numbers: The statistics that defined the 2024 road cycling season

Statistician Cillian Kelly lifts the lid on the key figures that shaped this season

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"I was left standing alone in the dark,trying to match up to these iconicsingers that had gone before": The chaotic tale of Black Sabbath's Tony Martin era

Dio was out, Gillan was gone, Geezer had given up, and Ozzy had declared war. Light came in the shape of Tony Martin, and the next chapter in Black Sabbath's story

Metal Hammer

"Tony Iommi should have dropped the name and called the band something else": Black Sabbath's least-loved album re-examined, four decades on

What happened when Tony Iommi brought two familiar faces back on board for Forbidden, an album produced by an extremely unexpected choice

Louder

"Anything that comes in the future, I always give it a thought." Tony Iommi suggests he'd be open to writing with Ozzy Osbourne in future and picks out the 'special' Black Sabbath riffs - including Eddie Van Halen's favourite

It's fair to say Tony Iommi knows a thing or two about brilliant riffs

Metal Hammer

“I picked him up and we drove by a music shop. I said, 'Do you want to pick a guitar up?' and we did – one of his Eddie Van Halen ones”: Tony Iommi on that time Eddie Van Halen helped co-write a Black Sabbath song – but didn’t get a credit

Van Halen joined the band for a rehearsal in Birmingham, England, and ended up contributing a solo to a track

Guitar World

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“You could have anyone from Dio to Pavarotti, and it will never be Sabbath. Don’t belittle that band, Tony, move on”: the furious open letter Ozzy Osbourne sent to Tony Iommi telling him to end Black Sabbath

In the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi looks back on the band’s late 80s ‘wilderness period’ – and a war of words with Ozzy Osbourne

Metal Hammer

Tony Iommi remembers co-writing a Black Sabbath song with Eddie Van Halen: “I said, ‘You’re playing that wrong’”

Van Halen’s record label stopped him from getting a Black Sabbath songwriting credit in 1994

Metal Hammer

Black Sabbath's Get A Grip: Watch the official upgraded video

Get A Grip comes from a new single released to celebrate the upcoming Tony Martin-era box set Anno Domini 1989-1995

Metal Hammer

The untold story of Black Sabbath's unlikely resurrection: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Jon Bon Jovi, Triumph, Bryan Adams, Praying Mantis, FM, New England, Al Jourgensen, Masters Of Reality, Chris Spedding, Cock Sparrer, Bad Nerves and more

Louder

“There’s the Ozzy thing and the Ronnie thing, and then there’s this”: Black Sabbath’s “lost era” didn’t have Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio – but it featured some of Tony Iommi’s best guitar playing

The Anno Domini 1989-1995 box set highlights the metal progenitor’s striking development as a soloist and master of crushing riffs

Guitar World

“He’d got it down to a tee. He wore one of my jackets, a wig, a mustache and I’m playing behind him”: Tony Iommi once dressed his guitar tech up as himself and sent him onstage as a prank on Sabbath singer Tony Martin

The real Tony Iommi played while hiding behind a stack, and the fake Iommi nearly got away with it

Guitar World

Talking Horses: Irish trainer Tony Martin banned for three months

Trainer will lose his licence from 15 May to 14 August after horse tested positive for lidocaine on raceday

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Black Sabbath announce details of long-awaited Tony Martin era box set and The Eternal Idol is nowhere to be seen

The new set will contain remastered versions of Headless Cross, Tyr and Cross Purposes, plus a new Tony Iommi mix of Forbidden

Guitar World

“I've been working in the studio, writing and doing plenty of stuff”: Tony Iommi reveals he is cooking up some “really good” new music for 2024

In his New Year message, the metal legend talks about everything from the Black Sabbath ballet to working in the studio and the status of the delayed Tony Martin-era Sabbath boxset

Chicago Sun-Times

Nonprofit donates $460,000 to widows, children of fallen firefighters: ‘We’re a family’

The EMWQ Retirees’, Widows’ and Children’s Assistance Fund was founded to provide financial assistance to the children and widows of active service members of the Chicago Fire Department who die.

The Independent UK

On This Day in 2014 – Sir Bradley Wiggins wins time-trial gold in Spain

Wiggins won by an emphatic margin of 26.23 seconds in Ponferrada.

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Cycling Weekly

UCI Road World Championships 2025: Results, medal table, route information and the riders who featured at the Rwanda Worlds

Road World Championships coverage from Cycling Weekly, with up to date race results, news and reports

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'Here Lies Geezer Butler': How a falling out between ex-Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler turned bitter, nasty and personal in the '90s

Geezer Butler recalls when Black Sabbath's stage show featured mock gravestones suggesting that both he and his wife Gloria were dead

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Where is Tony Martin now? The farmer from Channel 4's The Interrogation

The murder case still divides the nation 20 years on - but where is Tony Martin now?

Cycling Weekly

Are one-by drivetrains making a comeback to World Tour bike racing?

Despite dropped chain woes of the Giro d'Italia, Jumbo-Visma are bringing one-by drivetrains back to the Tour de France

Cycling News

Ex-pros Tony Martin and Marcel Kittel debut new kids' bike at Eurobike

The li:on kids bike aims to be the most visible on the market

Daily Record

Farmer who shot teen burglar dead with shotgun 'doesn’t regret anything' almost 23 years on

Tony Martin, 78, was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring his accomplice Brendon Fearon after they broke into his isolated farm in 1999.

Daily Mirror

Farmer Tony Martin 'doesn't regret anything' 23 years after shooting burglar dead

The pensioner, who was jailed for killing Fred Barras, 16, and seriously injuring Brendon Fearon when they broke into his isolated farm in 1999, may have to abandon his plan to appeal

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