Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it.

On August 19th 2005 without telling anyone Maria and Tony were wed at the Sunset Marquis hotel with only one witness present. " The differences are the finish headstock use of a stoptail bridge and use of rail humbuckers as opposed to the 18-pole humbuckers on his two other versions. Ford said in a 1989 Kerrang! interview "there's a certain amount of bad blood between Tony Iommi and I.

In 2000 he released his first solo album Iommi followed by 2005's Fused which featured his former bandmate Glenn Hughes. In 2011 he publiTony Iommid an autobiographic work titled Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath. After releasing Fused he joined Heaven & Hell which disbanded after Ronnie James Dio's death in 2010.