Two guitar legends walk into a studio… No this isn’t the start to a joke — it actually happened. Thanks to the Sky Arts documentary series Greatest Guitar Riffs, Queen’s Brian May and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi came together to perform the Sabbath classic “Paranoid.”
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In the video shared via Guitar World, the pair of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers discuss the first time they met in the early 70s, with Iommi exclaiming that they’ve been “best friends ever since.”
May then asks Iommi where all his great riffs come from, to which the Sabbath legend responds, “I think it’s within. Normally, we’d jam around and play something, and Ozzy (as in Osbourne) would go, ‘What the f***’s that?’ But it just feels right.”
The two icons then get into a discussion about the track, with Iommi sharing the story about how the song was a last-minute addition to Sabbath’s second album, which as we know actually ended up titled Paranoid.
Eventually Iommi starts to play the classic “Paranoid” riff, leading May to add, “I’m gonna commit sacrilege by joining in.” The Queen guitarist then shreds an impressive solo over the classic metal riff, sarcastically noting, “It’s a good riff! It will go far!”
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