Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi continues to fight the good fight following his cancer diagnosis in 2012.
He tells The Guardian newspaper: “I’m OK at the moment, dare I say it. It’s stage three lymphoma, so it could come back at any time. That’s one of the reasons why we’re stopping touring. It’s not the playing — it’s the long flights and arriving at a hotel at 4 a.m. That’s not good for me because it affects the blood cells. But I love playing with the band, and it’s sad to think this is the last tour.”
“It particularly hit me in Australia. I thought: ‘Blimey. This is it. We’re never going back.’ It’s very emotional. But it doesn’t mean we won’t play together any more, we’re just stopping touring. Well, I’m not doing any more. They [Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler] might be (laughs).”