Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi is a featured guest on Rocket, the first single from British pop star Robbie Williams‘ upcoming album Britpop. The high-octane rock track features an instantly anthemic chorus, pounding drums and a signature guitar solo from the heavy metal pioneer. The song, which is written by Robbie, Karl Brazil, Tony Iommi and Tom Longworth, is available now, while the accompanying video will be released this Friday. In the video, Robbie can be seen wearing a punk-inspired outfit — red tartan trousers, heavy chain necklace and a leather biker jacket covered in graffiti — while he moves around several London landmarks accompanied by a flash mob, while other scenes were shot with Robbie and Iommi together in the latter’s hometown, Birmingham.
“This [song] is massive guitars, as you can imagine,” Willams said. “It’s adrenaline-filled and balls to the wall.”
Iommi, along with the rest of the original lineup of Black Sabbath — singer Ozzy Osbourne, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward — will play its final concert this summer. Dubbed Back To The Beginning, the charity show will be held at Villa Park in Birmingham, United Kingdom on July 5th. Support at the gig will come from Metallica, Slayer, Pantera and many more.
Listen to the song below. [Dana’s note: Once the official video is made available, I will add it to this post.]
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I heard this on the radio this afternoon here in England whilst at work.
The DJ wouldn’t tell us who it was, but as soon as the guitar started I just knew who it was playing:
“The Messiah”.
Enough said….
Eh, it’s ok, best part of the song is Iommi’s guitar of course.