It may sound slightly odd – Black Sabbath guitarist writes choral work for Birmingham Cathedral – but it should come as no great surprise that Tony Iommi has done just that.
There has always been a fine line between the devil's music and religious music – and sometimes no line at all.
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison... need one say much more?
Great musicians ploughing the fields of blues, country, soul, funk, rock and even heavy metal have all been inspired by the spiritual – if not the outright religious.
In fact, the "devil's players" come well equipped (with passion and feeling and a few "sins" to confess) to get religion. Yet conventionally religious types, on the other hand, don't usually have what it takes to rock...
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