Tony Iommi
Birth name: Frank Anthony Iommi
DOB: 2/19/1948
Where: Birmingham, England
Height: 6'2''
Spouse
-Maria Sjoholm: 1999-present
Trademark
-Black leather jacket
-Large silver cross necklace
-Black mustache
-Plays his Gibson guitar left handed
-His droning riffs
-His midnight blue sunglasses
-Black clothes
-His long, jet black hair
-His long guitar solos
Trivia
-While in grade school, used to bully the man he would later become band mates with, Ozzy Osbourne
-At age 17, while working in a sheet metal factory in 1966, he accidentally cut off the tips of his ring and middle finger of his right hand. He now plays with plastic guitar picks
-The only original member of Black Sabbath to stay throughout the lineup changes
-Was a brief member of Jethro Tull. He appears in the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus in 1996
-In the mid 1980s, was engaged to Lita Ford
-His birthday, Feb. 19, is the anniversary of the death of AC/DC front man Bon Scott
-Is good friends with Gene Simmons of Kiss
-Close friends with Brian May of Queen
-Was born to Italian immigrants
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