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TONY IOMMI WRITES EUROVISION TRACK
The List, UK
March 6 2013
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has written a song for this year's
Eurovision Song Contest with Armenian entry The Dorians.
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has written a song for this year's
Eurovision Song Contest.
A piece by the 'Iron Man' rock guitarist has been selected for
Armenia's entry in Europe's annual singing contest, and will be
performed by The Dorians singer Gor Sujyan.
Tony posted the news on his website saying, "Well here's something
different, one of my demo ideas has been chosen as the Armenian entry
for the Eurovision Song Contest! It went on a short list and Saturday
night was voted as the winner. I did the music and the performing
band Dorians wrote the lyrics, it's called 'Lonely Planet'."
Tony became involved with the Eastern European country in 1988, where
he took part in Rock Aid Armenia to raise money for the country after
it was devastated by an earthquake.
The songwriter, along with Deep Purple's Ian Gillan recruited a group
of heavy-metal musicians to record a charity single version of 'Smoke
on the Water'. The line-up also included members of Iron Maiden, Pink
Floyd, Queen and Led Zeppelin, and the track was a hit in the UK,
reaching the top 40 singles chart.
Tony also formed another supergroup in 2011 to record another charity
single, this time raising money to set up a Music School in Gyumri,
Armenia.
Tony - who reformed the original line-up of Black Sabbath in 2011 -
also said he was looking forward to seeing the Dorians perform at
the concert in May.
He said: "They're a good band, the singer has a really good voice
and the lyrics they've written are in English. It now goes to the
semi-final on May 16th in Malmo, Sweden. Glad to be able to be involved
with Armenia again, the school is coming along fine, they've got the
furniture sorted and it will be opened late summer."
Black Sabbath's new album '13' will be released in June.
http://www.list.co.uk/article/49406-tony-iommi-writes-eurovision-track/
The List, UK
March 6 2013
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has written a song for this year's
Eurovision Song Contest with Armenian entry The Dorians.
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has written a song for this year's
Eurovision Song Contest.
A piece by the 'Iron Man' rock guitarist has been selected for
Armenia's entry in Europe's annual singing contest, and will be
performed by The Dorians singer Gor Sujyan.
Tony posted the news on his website saying, "Well here's something
different, one of my demo ideas has been chosen as the Armenian entry
for the Eurovision Song Contest! It went on a short list and Saturday
night was voted as the winner. I did the music and the performing
band Dorians wrote the lyrics, it's called 'Lonely Planet'."
Tony became involved with the Eastern European country in 1988, where
he took part in Rock Aid Armenia to raise money for the country after
it was devastated by an earthquake.
The songwriter, along with Deep Purple's Ian Gillan recruited a group
of heavy-metal musicians to record a charity single version of 'Smoke
on the Water'. The line-up also included members of Iron Maiden, Pink
Floyd, Queen and Led Zeppelin, and the track was a hit in the UK,
reaching the top 40 singles chart.
Tony also formed another supergroup in 2011 to record another charity
single, this time raising money to set up a Music School in Gyumri,
Armenia.
Tony - who reformed the original line-up of Black Sabbath in 2011 -
also said he was looking forward to seeing the Dorians perform at
the concert in May.
He said: "They're a good band, the singer has a really good voice
and the lyrics they've written are in English. It now goes to the
semi-final on May 16th in Malmo, Sweden. Glad to be able to be involved
with Armenia again, the school is coming along fine, they've got the
furniture sorted and it will be opened late summer."
Black Sabbath's new album '13' will be released in June.
http://www.list.co.uk/article/49406-tony-iommi-writes-eurovision-track/