Iron Man (song)

1970

Iron Man is a song by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It is a single from the 1970 released studio album Paranoid. The song was written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, the text was written by Geezer Butler. In July 2000, the band for the song the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance received. The song belongs to the classics, which are an integral part of the live performances of the band.

Background

Despite the title, the name Iron Man does not refer to the fictional eponymous superhero. With the highly distorted words " I am Iron Man! " Derives Ozzy Osbourne a song. The song reflects a change in the themes of the songs and shows with his apocalyptic scenario the increased interest of the band to science fiction. The text is about a man who has invented a time machine and finds, after a journey that humanity is faced with the apocalypse. He is transformed by a magnetic field into a man of iron, the "Iron Man". After no one wants to listen to his warnings, he takes revenge by killing people. He tried initially to do good, but do evil.

The album cover shows the band logo in white letters against a black background and a red tinted image Ozzy Osbourne during a live appearance. The single was released in 1971, on the B - side was " Electric Funeral ". The album version is 5:56 minutes longer than the single version.

In the following period the song was released several times on best-of compilations and live albums. It has been covered by numerous artists, including NOFX, Marilyn Manson and The Cardigans. On it, parts of the music build in "Murder in the brothel " by the German Oi! Band Herbärds on.

The famous tag team Road Warriors used the song as entrance music, but only outside the WWE. Only the beginning was " Man I am Iron" by changed to " We Are Iron Men ".

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