Tony Iommi talks about his early days as a musician, cutting off his fingers in an industrial accident and his road to forming Black Sabbath.

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A cartoon Tony Iommi loses his fingers. Before becoming a rock legend, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi worked in a sheet metal plant, where he lost the tips of two of his fingers in an accident.

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