He usually aimed for the head or the face.

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

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This influential foreign born mostly retired A+ musician who is considered a virtuoso on his particular instrument has long had a problem with violence towards women.

His physical abuse of both romantic partners and groupies is well known and documented in at least one ex’s book. But it wasn’t just women he was sleeping with.

Over the years it escalated to a point where the musician would punch random autograph seekers or any woman who approached him.

He usually aimed for the head or the face.

On the farewell tour of this “dark” band which was his claim to fame, after a couple of lawsuits, the musician had assigned to him a handler who kept him away from female fans.

Tony Iommi – Black Sabbath

Lita Ford

LITA FORD Doesn’t Regret Including TONY IOMMI Abuse Accusations In Her Book

Lita Ford says that she has no regrets about detailing what she has described in her memoir as an abusive relationship with Tony Iommi.

The female rocker opened up about her tumultuous romance with the BLACK SABBATH guitarist in “Living Like A Runaway: A Memoir”, in which she accuses Iommi of attacking her on at least two occasions as he battled severe drug addiction.

During an appearance on the “Trunk Nation” show on SiriusXM channel Volume, Lita said that she was “not sorry” she wrote about Iommi’s allegedly physically abusive behavior toward her “because it hurt me just as much as it hurt people to read about it. They were obviously into the book when they read it,” she said. “I was the one that got the butt end of the stick on that.

“I still think he’s an amazing guitar player; it doesn’t take that away from me,” she continued. “He’s my idol. I still idolize his music; it doesn’t take that away.”

Asked by Trunk is she has heard from Iommi or anybody in his camp since her book was published nearly two years ago, Lita said: “No. And we actually reached out to him to try to let him know what we were gonna do and say, and the book is coming out. He just said, ‘Well, we were all on drugs then.’ He more so than anybody. If you read the book, you’ll see what we were doing. And I’m not innocent — I was doing drugs too, but not in the mass quantities that… He was almost on Elvis Presley level, which was insane — just mass quantities. [He had] doctors and people you could just pick up the phone and say, ‘Can I have an injection of this? ‘Can I have a jarful of these?’ Not a bottle, but a jar. Just crazy stuff — stuff I’m sure he’s cleaned up now and he’s not that person anymore.”

According to Lita, she became “destructive” when she found out what kind of person Tony was. “I wanted to hurt myself. And what I did was — and I don’t know if this is considered hurting yourself — I started drinking, because he never allowed me to drink. Although he would do mass quantities of drugs, he would never allow me to have a drink.”

Ford said that the drugs “were there” for her to take “if I wanted them. [Tony] never really forced them on me.” But Iommi inexplicably did not want her to ever consume any alcohol. “It was very bizarre,” she said. “He just really did not want me… Even on airplanes. When you’re sitting on a plane, you like to have a glass of wine or a Bloody Mary or just something to take the edge off, because you’re 30 thousand feet in the air for five hours, or 10 hours, flying overseas, but I couldn’t. So when we split, we went our separate ways, I went on a drinking binge, just to say, ‘You won’t let me do it. I’m gonna go do it now since you’re not around. I’m gonna hurt myself.’ And I ended up getting this tattoo of this dragon on my shoulder. I don’t know. It was a hurt-me kind of thing; I wanted to hurt myself. Because I was devastated when I found out what kind of person he was; I was absolutely devastated. And I think’s shattering to a lot of fans that read the book. They feel the same way I did. But I was in those shoes, and when they read about that, they’re, like, shocked.”

Asked if she was comfortable with Iommi’s supposed explanation for the violence as his claim that everyone was “on drugs” back in those days, Lita said: “Part of it, yeah. I think part of it. I think it’s something that is in his family, or was in his family. I don’t believe his mother and father are still alive, and I think his father might have contributed to that. And then the drugs on top of it just makes you violent, makes you out of your mind. Especially… Depends on what you take or what you’re doing, but a combination of a certain type of drug will make you violent.” – Source