Bill and Geezer are probably the greatest rhythm section ever.

Anybody who doesn't yet know, look up the Black Sabbath live show in Paris, 1970. Bill Ward was an animal on the drums, and a HUGE part of Sabbath's success. The man is way underrated. And like people have said, without Ward, it's not Sabbath.

Black Sabbath is just not the same without Bill. His drumming on the first 4 albums is second to none.

Bill's a sweetheart of a man.

All hail Bill Ward. Thank you Mr. Ward for your fantastic, and imaginative drumming. You make all my days better.

The front cover of Black Sabbath is one of the most unforgettable images in rock n roll history. I love it to this day and I've been looking at it for 35 years.

One of the best improvisational, heavy beat, style switching, Tom beating, drummer ever!

It's awesome that Bill's philosophy in life is very similar black sabbath's lyrics. They were truly on the same wavelength and had the same vision for what they wanted out of the band and out of life.

If you want to see a Black Sabbath reunion, go watch the last supper DVD. That was a reunion. There is no reunion without Bill.

Bill has lost a lot of weight since then. He's interesting to talk to and very intelligent.

The OG hard hitter. After seeing him live, he drove to want to bash a drum kit, and that is exactly what I did. Thanks Bill, for sending me down the hard road and not the light one

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISTER BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILL WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just remember, LOVE is life, and HATE is living death. Treat your life for what it's worth, and live for every breath!!!!!

any member of sabbath I could prob listen to them talk for hours.

I love the opening to War Pigs. One of my favourite Bill Ward parts is Rat Salad. Friends of mine went to see Black Sabbath the other day on The End but for me no Bill Ward, no Black Sabbath. I was lucky enough to see Black Sabbath in 2001 and 1998 with Bill Ward and absolutely fantastic especially 2001. I saw them in 2005 and for me too not the same. Bill Ward the last in that great era of versatile drummers who could swing like Bonham and Paice. A very underrated drummer and from this drummer's perspective irreplaceable. My friends were back stage and Sabbath were amazingly nice but such a shame no Bill Ward. Anyone who doubts his prowess get a copy of the Paris 1970 concert and wow he is fantastic.

A True Legend! If you haven’t heard Bill Wards Album “All Along the Way” listen to it! Masterpiece!🤘🏻🔥✨

"we were all heathens, thank God" xD Bill rules

I am totally blown away as to how nice all four of these band members are. Having listened to their music since the beginning, I never paid attention to them speak other than Ozzy. My gosh, I never, ever would have guessed how nice these people really are. Until recently, I never heard them speak! Wild.

“It’s All Right” from Technical Ecstasy “ .....Bill’s vocals

fantastic artist and drummer, and such a sweet guy

Great interview, seems like a genuine bloke.

Why Ward wasn't asked to the tour is beyond me.

“ I believe in life n love “. Words to live by

Sam: One of the best thing about interviewing legendary metal musicias is I get to dig to the root of a lot of metal rumours I remember from my youth, and one of the biggest rumours I can remember was how there ended up being an upside down cross on the inside of the first Black Sabbath record..... here is Bill on that cover. Can you tell me the story on how the cover came together? Bill: Emm...well unfor... I dont know the story about the cover

No Bill - no Sabbath!

Never got into Black Sabbath until my late 20's. But as a kid under 10 I remember being in an older cousins room and he was playing Black Sabbath and talking about them. He made it a POINT to make me listen to them. Things are so different these days with all the access to every little bit of information you want to find about your favorite bands and singers. But I can tell you back then (late 70's) that DARK.....MYSTERIOUS.......HEAVY....INTIMDATING......SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK vibe that I felt from just hearing the music....Ozzy's voice....and absorbing what little information I could gather from looking at a vinyl album cover was something I have not felt since that day. It would be nearly another 20 years before I really got into Ozzy & Black Sabbath in mid 90's. That vibe and energy was still kinda there from what I had remembered but very different. Now that ANOTHER 20 years has passed the music still stands but that dark VIBE of the original members is really totally gone. Ozzy is just an old fuddy-duddy.....Iommi is much more understood and likeable.....Bill Ward is a little complicated and kinda drama......and Geez is just....well Geez....connected to the cosmos. Thank GOD I had that one brief moment with Black Sabbath as a kid. It's the ONE thing I can use to verify that YES.....Ozzy used to be a scary guy. Everything about what I was hearing and whoever it was making them sounds with the guitars and drums was scary as hell. As a kid I didn't think of the music in terms of an actual person behind the music.....the sound was just it's own identity. I didn't know any of their names back then or what they even looked like....but what came out of those speakers and the look of the album cover was DIFFERENT and TERRIFYING compared to all the stuff I was listening to on the radio. I swear I'm starting to believe there is actually something that connects Black Sabbath to the End of Times. They were put here for that purpose. It's as if they're the countdown timer to our DOOM. They started it 49 years ago and now that they're finished it's like the timer just ran out like it did in Independence Day......"Time's Up." There is that brief moment between when the clock hits 00:00 and when the destruction actually begins..............HERE IT COMES.

I can't think of a drummer any better than Bill Ward .

James dean was the actor he was trying to recall in “rebel without a cause”.great 50’s films these guys grew up watching, 1st proper real heavy Rock/metal band.

Very Important Interview Great Job! And Thank you for sharing!

And underrated master.

guys just at absolute LEGEND!! makes me proud to be British

Awesome interview!

"we were all heathens, thank god" was that deliberate?

What a nice, handsome and modest man Bill is! He is one of the people I would like to get to know personally.

I've watched quite a few of these type interviews over the last weeks (lockdown etc ! ) . I find them fascinating. It is notable how articulate , interesting and likeable many of these "old" rockers are to listen to. This is a good example.

What an interview, Bill is one of my favorites !

such a great guy, gives credence to his side of the whole fallout of him and the rest of sabbath

I listened to interview about 20 yrs ago of Tony stating that “there is a 5th member of Black Sabbath, a dark figure, not seen but felt, He is always in the studio and even helps write the songs”

I Love Bill Ward!

life and love...amazing words from an even more amazing person. truly inspiring bit. \m/

Lester Bangs famously referred to Sabbath as something akin to Rock N Roll's first catholic band. I absolutely agree. Not to say that they were themselves Catholic. But you hear, like Bill referred to, the guilt, coming out in the music. I never took their darkness to be satanic but rather reflection of the darker aspects of the bible or growing up in a Christian dominated environment. Not to mention that the eponymous song itself sounded closer to catholic mass music than anything I had heard previously. I think Lester was absolutely correct.

Awesome. Much life and love to the might Bill Ward. Hail Black Sabbath. Thank you, Sam.

Great guy, utterly respected by the fans. Give him some of that Ozzy Cash, he deserves it!

7:22 "We're all heathens, thank God." I laughed out loud when he said that.

Bill is a Legend on the Drum Kit.

I think he means James Dean not Marlon Brando Bill Ward is an animal on drums

One of Hard Rocks greatest Drummer"s

there's there's only one Black Sabbath and that is Ozzy Tony Geezer and Bill this is Black Sabbath.

Somewhere in Nordiclandia there is a kid who started a black metal band, in full corpsepaint, who just saw this interview. At the end, he looks at the floor, dejected... closeup on his hand opening and his satanic pendants falling into the rubbish bin.

Best band ever. This is metal, recorder and finished 2/1969....unbeleivabley scary and hard for the time. Just absolute greatness.

group of nice lads from Aston Villa, cheers, mate!

most excellent, thank you

Remarkable how the original lineup are still alive, especially Ozzy. Dude's done enough coke to floor herd of elephants.

Bill ward is awesome, especially talking about the dark notes and all that , wonderful

I always wondered about the liner notes of Bill's first solo album (love that record) where he thanks the "Father" for things. It's been probably 25 years since I had a copy of it so I can't remember exactly what it says, but the wording always struck me as him acknowledging a belief in a dark guiding force, whatever you want to call it.

-"We were all heathens, thank God." Love you Bill!!

Ive been playing drums for 30 yrs now, Bill Ward was the drummer I wanted to play like,I Still play in his style to this day (thankfully I was able to see him play with the rest of Sabbath in 1999) .............Erik Vonderlieth

Epic dude, I'm missing him on this tour..

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album cover is more "Satanic" than the debut... lol

- Did you grow up in a religious household ? - No ... Not at all ... THANKS GOD

Thanks for all the great music Bill! Your drumming is second to none!

The Master and my living hero Sir Bill Ward 🥁

Super nice and very smart, didn't know that.

I first heard Black Sabbath when my brother brought home the Paranoid album in late 1970, I was 8 years old. It scared the crap out of me, I'd never heard anything like it. I remember saying to myself 'I need to do THAT.' Black Sabbath changed my life, it really did. I already had a love for the drums with heroes like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich but after hearing Bill Ward's work with Black Sabbath I embarked on a musical journey that I still love to this day with no regrets. Thank You, Bill, for sharing your thoughts, your music and inspiration. Deepest Regards, Alex G. 😎

Bill has an amazing singing voice!

I love this man! Awesome drummer, fantastic singer and a great person.

I would dearly love to meet Bill Ward. As much a part of the orignal sound as any of the others if not more.

Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality" was one of the most lyrically profound records in Metal history. It was also an accurate and excellent bit of theological poetry, especially the title track. The record company demanded that they become a "Satanic band." Tony responded by wearing a cross at every show. Odd. Why were they so insistent on Satanism? I have news for the world: Real satanists don't scream to a crowd about how great Satan is. They are inherently devious liars. They would never say what Venom or King Diamond says. Geezer's lyrics were intensely spiritual and anti-demonic.

The quote is actually from the movie The Wild One starring Marlon Brando. The Rebel Without A Cause movie was with James Dean.

"Goes great with a rainy day and a bowl of soup."

One of my favorites EVER!!! PERIOD.

Bill Ward must be on anyone's Top 5 drummers of all time in ANY genre. I don't think I can point to anyone who was more musical than Bill Ward. I totally boycotted Black Sabbath's final tour because of how they didn't offer Bill a better deal. That was cold and I also think that Tony Iommi has a tendency to default to playing the victim somewhat.

I figured this interview would touch more on the front cover and the songs more than the inside artwork.

eu sou do Brasil e vi esse rapaz num documentário incrível chamado Global Metal

I admire all your interviews. I want your job!

Bill ward had a "family" in Rockport TX, he would visit them every now and then. My buddy told me he would see him at karate class with his son when he was young.

1:11 "Rebel Without a Cause" 1955 was not with Marlon Brando but James Dean.

When asked about the inside of the first album cover with the inverted cross, quote; "None of us liked it". Unquote. It was probably suggested to be put their by someone outside of the band. Most likely suggested by some industry handler who wears a little hat.

Bill Ward in his prime was one of the finest drummer sin all of Rock and Metal, try seek out the drum solo form that early Paris gig in a club just astonishing technical ability! Bill is also a very humble and decent bloke for what I've seen.

I always found Bill Ward to be more insightful on life then the other 3 members of Black Sabbath. I don't know why. Lol

GRANDE BILL WARD........maestro de maestros.

I remember hearing an interview where Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden spoke about how phenomenal of a drummer he is. and he is he's an awesome drummer

You are an amazing interviewer how would you like to be a guest on my weekly Talk show that Aires on Facebook and KZfaq at the same time

Favorite drummer of all time

awesome interview...!! Bill should narrate national geographic or something...soothing voice!!..seems like a good hang!!

Always loved hearing Bill. always loved that cover as well, something special about it? can't remember the cross tho LOL!

Can you ask Bill how he came to be the singer on the Sabbath tune ' It's Alright' instead of Ozzy..???!!

I've watched a few Bill Ward interviews. He comes across as a likeable, well mannered and humble person. Great drummer too.

The Marlon Brando movie he mention is called “the wild one” that’s where that dialogue came from. It wasn’t from “rebel without a cause” I still listening to Black Sabbath today.

Bill beat the shit out the drums back in the day, It was a shame he could not tour with Sabbath, But to his credit they had to find a much younger drummer to play his part. Would be incredibly hard for someone who was not fit or has not played in a long time to pull it off, I think Bill knew he could not due his old work justice so he bowed out. One only has to watch old videos to see the energy and how savage he was in his youth to a drum set. Lars is able to beat the crap out of drums still because he never stopped

nothing inspired me more to pick up drum sticks when i was sixteen than black sabbaths first album..and it's always them dark notes that get you

I think Bill was better than Tony and Geezer in interviews. Although it may be because the other two were tired of being asked the same stupid questions a million times. But it is nice to hear him give his point of view.

1:42 Ozzy liked it. In his autobiography told that he was excited about all image on album, also the inverted cross, but also told, he never took it seriously all that satanic stuff

Icon , total icon.

Bill was the best, none can touch him

By Tony Iommi's own admission he said 'to be honest' him and the others were interested with the Occult. He said in an interview they used to know the head Druid in England in some sort of organization. Ozzy also half joked in an other interview I saw that 'they got around and put stuff in cauldrons like witches, but it didn't do anything!'. I'm surprised Tony was that honest about that, because if you listen to the lyrics of songs like the inverted meanings in 'After Forever' (The Son of Sam, who was a Occultist by his own admission, put those lyrics at murder scenes, and Ozzy said the band went 'to far' with what they wrote. The Occult band Tool also had the same theme in lyrics to 'Opiate') and titles of albums like 'Master of Reality' has Occult meanings normal people would not think of without knowing a little about it. Bill Ward is a friend of my mother and I've actually met him. I would never ask him about that though. I have only asked about the band Type O Negative, cause he mentioned that band on That Metal Show, and he said his favorite Type O record is 'Life is Killing Me'. He also mentioned he loved Godsmack when I told him about their cover of Sweet Leaf and that he would check out that song.

"We're all heathens, thank God". Epic.

" I believe in life. And love" totally misunderstood as a band, especially a song with a title like Children of the Grave : Show the world that love is still alive You must be brave Or you children of today are Children of the Grave

Banger !

Life and love. There you go. Long live Bill Ward

One of my favorite human beings