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BraveWords has done an exclusive interview with Glenn Hughes, taken during his recent visit to Brazil. The interview will be published in parts over the coming days. In the first part, Glenn talks about his stint with Tony Iommi back in the 1980s:
BraveWords: After Sabbath parted ways with Dio, things became a blur when it came to singers. I did a Zoom with Tony Martin recently, and I jokingly asked, “Was there anybody in charge?” And he laughed at me and answered, “No, there was no one in charge.”
Hughes: “You know, Sharon and Don Arden when I was, you know, when Gillan was in the band, after Ray Gillen came in. And then Gillan went back to Purple, I guess. And then Tony calls me in the middle of the night, ‘Hey, um, I’m gonna do a solo album, and I’m inviting you and Ronnie and Rob Halford to do two or three songs each. Are you interested?’ I said, ‘Of course I’m interested. Your solo album. Of course I’ll sing on your solo album. So I went to the studio, Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, and the first song we wrote together was ‘No Stranger To Love’, you know? And then he said, ‘Can you come down tomorrow?’ I said, ‘Sure, I’ll come down.’ Then we wrote ‘Heart Like A Wheel’. And it went on for about four days and I’m going, ‘Well, am I singing the whole album?’ He said, ‘We would like you to sing on my solo album.’ So I did. And then the last song, Don Arden, Sharon’s father came in, ‘Well, we think we should call it Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath.’ Yeah. See, I wasn’t really singing about dark shit, you know. So I sang on Tony’s solo album, and it later became Sabbath.”
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I love The7thStar.
May 29th, 2025 at 07:39For me in this album GH releases a superb singing. Another album that I love for GH’s voice is FaceTheTruth by J.Norum Ciaooo
It is my favourite Iommi recording with Hughes by a long shot. Miles ahead of the later collaborations that they did. Uwe most likely will chime in with ‘it is the worst record I have ever heard’, something like that, each to their own. Cheers.
May 29th, 2025 at 08:08@2
May 29th, 2025 at 08:52Oh sure!!
I don’t appreciate the later albums. Abandoned to the dust.. ciaoo
Great album, great singing from Glenn and great playing from Tony. The Spitz/Singer rhythm section sounds quit basic, though.
May 29th, 2025 at 08:58Talking of Iommi slash Black Sabbath, the mysterious lady on their debut album cover has come out of the darkness. As rare as sightings are from her at least. Cheers.
https://www.loudersound.com/culture/louisa-livingstone-cat-rescue-black-sabbath
May 29th, 2025 at 09:07Seventh Star is a great album, showcasing sides of Iommi’s playing which were not heard before. Glenn’s singing also is spectacular. I’d love to hear more music of that vibe from the two. I’ve read about some outtakes from the sessions (and bootlegs with Jeff Fenholt singing some Seventh Star songs with different lyrics), like there has to be tons of unrealeased Sabbath material with different singers somewhere in the archives.
May 29th, 2025 at 12:33Fused and The Dep Sessions I enjoy too, but they sound completely different than Seventh Star, production and songwriting-wise. Fused is a great album in my books, whereas I find the songs on the Dep Sessions a little underwhelming.
You can tell what state of mind Glenn was in back then……..and still is 🤔.
May 29th, 2025 at 12:40MacGregor the Wretched Myth Buster @5:
Darn, and I always thought it was Her Exquisite Hotness Gamora/Zoe Saldańa …
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8e/82/8f/8e828f16e2b1ba37ed8689b320be8f34.gif
I’d go veggie with her real quick! Always been the guy for personal sacrifices.
May 29th, 2025 at 17:04…And the soloing on Heart Like a Wheel by the way is one of the finest examples of Tony Iommi’s jazz influences, which otherwise can only be heard that clear in some of the later 70s tunes (Symptom of the Universe, Air Dance) and some live jams (Wicked World)
May 29th, 2025 at 19:15https://youtu.be/y2uguUP4YSM?si=1fxtgW2d03vAxmzZ
May 29th, 2025 at 19:30❤️😭
Who let Max’ altkluge kids in? 😂
But Tillythebrat is right, das muss man ihm lassen.
Meanwhile, Herr MacGregor follows his chosen path of oversimplification attributing blatant misstatements such as “worst record ever” to me. Mind you, if the good Lord gave you only drumsticks as a means of expression, all you can do is bang on things.
https://youtu.be/P7Tcggo45TQ
Seventh Star is not a “worst” record. It is a well-produced album by a talented English guitarist with a handicapped fretting hand sung by a very good singer going out of his way to deny his roots. It is so inoffensive and conventional that in hindsight something like Nirvana’s Nevermind album had to happen.
Born Again was pushing the envelope – both sonically and in the way IG projected his dark and raving Demon Driver side onto Sabbath’s molten lava music. It is BOTH a brilliant Sabbath and a brilliant Ian Gillan album. In contrast, Seventh Star is tame, avoiding any boldness and an obvious attempt of Tony Iommi to audition for Bad Company, anything to get on US radio after Born Again. 😂
Glenn’s comment says it all:
“So I sang on Tony’s solo album, and it later became Sabbath.”
Indeed – and it sounds like it too. No sinister and desolate doom & gloom. Glenn doesn’t have a dark bone in his body. He’s had dark patches in his life and his Addiction album reflected that plus Trapeze dabbled with early Sabbath era sounds
https://youtu.be/d0uVYOWdvz0
but the guy couldn’t even sing the occult nonsense on the first Phenomena album without having nightmares about the Beelzebub, the ole pansy! 😂
Nothing “worst” with Seventh Star then, it is just hugely conventional.
“Mediocrity is everywhere. I absolve you.”
https://youtu.be/LCQjrW0ofRE
And yes, I think that later collaborations of Tony and Glenn were musically more daring. Seventh Star sounds like a Dio era Sabbath album with Glenn told what to sing – which is likely why you all like it so much! 😈 Me, I hold that the Sabs did their best work with Ozzy and Ian (Ozzy names Born Again as his favorite Sabbath album without him).
Talking of Dave Spitz, he’s a colleague of mine in more ways than one …
https://www.secondactstories.org/heavy-metal-lawyer-black-sabbath-bassist-dave-the-beast-spitz-esq/
https://youtu.be/kI6qK-ehAZ8
May 29th, 2025 at 21:27