“What I always attempted to do with my science-fiction plots was to make these relevant to the modern world at the time,” Butler continues. He still has a human brain, and wants to do the right thing, but eventually his own frustrations at the way humanity treats him drives this creature to taking extreme action. I was fascinated by what might happen to a man who’s suddenly transformed into a metal being. “A lot of the stuff I was writing about was inspired by those sorts of stories. “Remember, this was the era of the space race,” he says. Performing 'Iron Man' live for the very last time.Order the full, uninterrupted concert film, live album and the very last in-studio jam session from the ban. “I was heavily into science fiction at the time,” Butler recalls of almost 50 years ago. Ultimately the would-be hero becomes the villain. Angry and bitter, he eventually causes the devastation he’d warned everyone about. Unable to talk, he still tries to warn people about the impending end of the world, but is only mocked for his troubles. Going back to his own time, he encounters a rogue magnetic field, which turns him into a mute, steel creature. But, over the years, Iron Man has grown and grown. We never thought of ourselves as a singles band anyway. I think it worked best at the time in the context of the album, Ward says. Although it reached No.52 in America (nine places higher than Paranoid), in the UK it make no impact at all. It’s about a man who goes into the future and witnesses the apocalypse. Sabbath released Iron Man as a single in 1971. The meaning of the storyline – a self-fulfilment prophecy, mixed up with time travel – is actually quite complex. That got me thinking about a lump of metal, and then putting it all into a science-fiction context.
“I can’t exactly recall what Ozzy said, but it was something like: ‘Why don’t we do a song called Iron Man, or maybe Iron Bloke’. It also talks about the story Butler imagined to go with the song: So whenever someone’s said to me over the years: ‘Oh, didn’t you write this about the superhero?’, I’d just say: ‘Sorry, never heard of him.’” For me it was all about the Beano and the Dandy. “I knew about Batman and Superman, but that’s about it. “My parents never let me read American comics when I was growing up,” he says. The song was also used in Monster Jam for the Iron Man truck's theme.According to this article, bassist Geezer Butler wrote the lyrics, he said he had never heard of the comic book character at the time:Īlthough Marvel had established that superhero in 1963, Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, who wrote the lyrics for the iconic song, had never even heard of him in 1970.
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Despite the title, the song has no connection to the Marvel Comics character of the same name, although it was used in the end credits of the 2008 movie Iron Man, and the trailer for the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2 the superhero also wears a Black Sabbath T-Shirt during the events of The Avengers. Osbourne sang behind a metal fan to get the sound effect in its first line, 'I am Iron Man!'. The title became "Iron Man", with Geezer Butler writing the lyrics around the title. Upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne remarked that it sounded "like a big iron bloke walking about". This causes Iron Man to become furious, and drives his revenge on mankind, causing the apocalypse seen in his vision. His attempts to communicate are ignored and mocked. Sabbath released Iron Man as a single in 1971. He is rendered mute, unable verbally to warn people of his vision of impending destruction. In the process of returning to the present, he is turned into steel by a magnetic storm. The lyrics tell the story of a man who time travels into the future and sees the apocalypse. In the process of returning to the present, he is turned into steel by a magnetic storm. 'Iron Man' is a song written and performed by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on their 1970 album Paranoid. "Iron Man" is a song written and performed by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on their 1970 album Paranoid.
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