“Inspired by Reinhardt, Iommi created two thimbles made of plastic and leather to cap off his missing fingers.”
“We didn’t have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the ‘Paranoid’ guitar lick and that was it. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom.”
“…the band’s visual interpretation of a ‘war pig’ was still featured on the cover; a distorted, eerie photograph of a bearded man with a sword and shield jumping out from behind a tree.”
“Too many sheep and not enough shepherds. Let’s all sit back and have a long hard think, then make something different! We can all do it, surely?”
“I’m just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.”
“He has explained in interviews that the Twin is in memory of his older brother, also named Richard James, who died at birth.”
“His father was a church organist, his mother a trader.”
“Juju Music was Island Records head Chris Blackwell’s attempt to make King Sunny into the new Bob Marley, after the reggae superstar’s death in 1981. He hired Martin Messonier, the Phil Spector of worldbeat, to produce, and bankrolled KSA’s first tour of the US.”
“Then I will now say my head should fight for me. That means my head should protect me. Because I use my head instead of calling my God. This is my god. God created my brain to control myself. So this is representative of my God. So you should protect me, you should fight for me. Because the vulture was helped by his head. The birds are being helped by their heads. Even the snakes are being like that. So I want it to fight for me as well.”
