Odd this day

1 April 1988

Apr 1, 2025

It is this account’s considered opinion that April Fool jokes are rarely up to much, but it does have a fondness for this from KERRANG! in April 1988, which celebrates its 37th anniversary today.

ull-pgatc o erng!,Api 98: Never Say Dai! Last week the Heavy Metal world was shaken to its foundations by the news that Welsh crooner TOM JONES had joined forces with TONY IOMMI in BLACK SABBATH. On the surface, this would seem an unlikely collaboration. But the more we here at Kerrang! think about it, the more we reckon… dammit, this could work! Read on, as long-time friend of the band JOHNNIE SMITH brings you an exclusive behind-the-scenes preview of the Tom ’n’ Tone roadshow, and their plans

An interviewer once asked Tony Iommi about it, who said he’d had a laugh with Tom Jones about it — so the Independent (who should have known better) turned it into a ‘this could really happen’ story.

Screenshot of Independent: Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath and Tom Jones might team up for bizarre collaboration — Guitarist Tony Iommi is keen to make a 25-year-old joke happen [plus side-by-side photosof Ozzy Osboutrne looking suitably satanic, and Tom Jones wide-eyed]

It hasn’t happened, and it won’t.

Not that metal/light entertainment crossovers are necessarily a bad idea. There has only ever been one decent cover version of Delilah, after all…

Odd this day

1 April 1988

Written by Coates

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