{"id":787998,"date":"2026-10-01T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:52:09","slug":"black-sabbath-film-difficult-to-watch-says-tony-iommi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787998\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath film difficult to watch, says Tony Iommi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iommi, nicknamed the Godfather Of Heavy Metal, received a &#8220;very special&#8221; honour on Wednesday for services to music and charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The musician was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Princess Royal at Windsor Castle and said Ozzy &#8220;would have been pleased&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I mean, I&#8217;ve got a lot of awards over the years&#8230; but this is very special to me, because [it is] from our own country, from England, so yeah really great,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ozzy died of a reported heart attack while suffering from several health conditions including Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iommi said it had been &#8220;up and down&#8221; since his death, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;ve just kept busy, really&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iommi, nicknamed the Godfather Of Heavy Metal, received a &#8220;very special&#8221; honour on Wednesday for services to music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}