Birmingham Mail, UK
May 12 2013
Tony Iommi: I’ll be cheering on Armenia in Eurovision semis
12 May 2013 08:00
Black Sabbath star will be willing his song to make it through to song
contest finals
Black Sabbath guitar hero Tony Iommi will be glued to the telly on
Thursday – to see if his song makes it through to the final of the
Eurovision Song Contest.
The 65-year-old rock legend dusted off an old ballad titled Lonely
Planet when Armenian broadcasting bosses came knocking at the door of
his Lapworth home.
Thankful for all the charity work Tony has done in their country,
where he has spearheaded the rebuilding of a music school destroyed by
an earthquake, they wondered if he had any spare songs.
And this week Armenian rocker Gor Sujyan and his band Dorians will
belt out Lonely Planet in the semi-final of the contest. If it fends
off stiff competition, the song will make it through to Saturday’s
final.
`I was shocked when the riff I gave them to work with ended up being
the country’s official entry in the competition, chosen by public vote
from hundreds of songs,’ says Tony.
`It was just a little ballad thing I’d written four or five years
previously but never released.
`But on Thursday night it’ll be heard by millions of people when the
semi-final is broadcast. And if it survives, and makes it through to
the final, then that’ll great. Unexpected, but great.
From: A. Papazian
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