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The guitar legend played his three-pickup Gibson Les Paul sat down, and brought the curtain down on his prolific live career at the last show of his farewell tour
In late 1982, Black Sabbath launch their Live Evil album. Released in part due to Tony Iommi's frustration with Ozzy Osbourne's Speak of the Devil – a live album consisting entirely of Sabbath songs that beat it to the stores by a couple of weeks – it features recordings taken from the band's Mob Rules tour.Side two, track two: it's the classic War Pigs, with Iommi's iconic two-chord riff backed by a rhythm section that swings in a way most rhythm sections simply don't. Out front, Ronnie James Dio tackles Ozzy's vocal part with his usual mix of drama and full-blooded commitment. Dio has been here before. Before Sabbath. Before Rainbow. Back in 1972, his then-band Elf feature War Pigs as part of their set. And there's a recording of them playing the song a full decade before the release of Live Evil.