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[[accordion title=Fun Facts About Black Sabbath]]
• Guitarist Tony Iommi insists that none of the band members had seen Boris Karloff's movie "Black Sabbath" at the time when they chose their band name.
• Crooner Michael Bolton was a potential candidate to become Black Sabbath's new lead singer when Ozzy Osbourne left the band in 1978.
• The iconic rock & roll devil horns hand gesture is credited to replacement singer Ronnie James Dio's grandmother, who used it against people she considered evil.
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