Geezer Butler
Pull a thread

Three Members of Black Sabbath Said Yes to a Final Album. All Three Said Yes to the Same Man.
Andrew Watt phoned the original lineup one at a time and collected three conditional yeses, every one of them hanging off Bill Ward. Four weeks earlier, Tony Iommi had told a different version of the same story.
The chain of yeses
Andrew Watt, the producer who made Ozzy Osbourne’s last two solo records, was sent to do the phone work on a final Black Sabbath album. One member at a time, at Sharon and Ozzy’s request.