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William Thomas Ward (born 5 May 1948) is an English drummer. He was a co-founder and the original drummer for the heavy metal band
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. Ward helped found Black Sabbath in 1969 alongside bandmates
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(lead singer),
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(guitarist) and
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(bass).


Biography


Early years and Black Sabbath

Bill started to play drums as a child, listening to the
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s of the 1940s; his early major influences were
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and
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. Later he was influenced by drummers such as
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,
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. In the mid-1960s Ward sang and played drums in a band called the Rest, before he and guitarist
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played together in a band called
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, and upon that band's dissolution joined vocalist
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and bassist
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, who had previously played together in a band called Rare Breed. The new band called themselves Earth, but were soon renamed Black Sabbath. Ward's drug and alcohol use increased throughout Black Sabbath's heyday. By the late 1970s he was drinking during gigs, something he had never done before. He also began experiencing
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s. Ward has said he cannot remember the recording of the 1980 album '' Heaven and Hell'' due to his alcohol abuse. According to Black Sabbath bandmate Iommi, Ward disappeared on 21 August 1980, without saying goodbye, other than a telephone call to then-Black Sabbath vocalist
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informing him "I'm off then, Ron." He then briefly played in a band called Max Havoc. He sat out one album (1981's '' Mob Rules'') before returning to Black Sabbath for 1983's ''
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'' album. Ward once again left for health reasons before the band toured in support of ''Born Again''. He again rejoined Black Sabbath in 1984 to record new material with David Donato but after several demo tapes, he once again left Sabbath.


Pranks

According to
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, he and the band would often set Ward's beard on fire and perform other harmful pranks on him. On one occasion, Ward even received third-degree burns. In an interview with ''
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'', Iommi described it as follows: Iommi claims that Ward almost died after a prank-gone-wrong during recording of '' Vol. 4'' in 1972. The band were renting a Bel Air mansion belonging to John DuPont of the
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chemical company. The band found several spray cans of gold DuPont paint in a room of the house; finding Ward naked and unconscious after a night of heavy drinking, they thought it would be funny to cover the drummer from head to toe in gold paint. Ward soon became violently ill and had a
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and an ambulance had to be called. The paint had blocked all of Ward's pores, which his bandmates were subsequently informed can be fatal.


Solo career

After a few years in hiatus, Ward decided to return to playing music in the late 1980s. In 1989 he went to work on a solo album, which featured a huge array of guest musicians, including former Black Sabbath bandmate Ozzy Osbourne and his guitarist,
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. Released in January 1990, '' Ward One: Along the Way'' showcased Ward's versatility in musical tastes and abilities; he even sang vocals on some of the songs. It would be seven years before he released his second solo album, '' When the Bough Breaks'', in 1997. In 2002 he released the song "Straws" as a single for charity. The song would reappear on his 2015 album '' Accountable Beasts''.


Later career

Before the full Black Sabbath reunion, Ward and the original Sabbath had reunited twice for short sets, first for
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in 1985 and then at a
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Ozzy Osbourne show on 15 November 1992. Sabbath, with
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singer Rob Halford replacing
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who had recently left the band, opened the show for Osbourne. The Ozzy Osbourne band (Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Mike Inez,
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and John Sinclair) then did a full set before Osbourne was reunited with Iommi, Butler and Ward for four numbers. Ward made a brief return to the band for a South American tour in 1994 with Tony Martin fronting, before finally rejoining the band for the two shows at the Birmingham NEC, England on 4 and 5 December 1997, which made up the ''Reunion'' album. When what was billed as the original line-up reunited for the
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tour in 1997, Mike Bordin played drums. Ward was forced to skip all but the last two Black Sabbath appearances in 1998 while he recovered from a
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suffered during the tour rehearsals that May. As the band rehearsed, Ward stopped and asked if he could lie down for a spell. He then asked for his assistant and informed the band that his arm had gone numb. Iommi and Butler then left for a short time, not knowing the severity of Ward's condition. Outside, they saw an ambulance pass but weren't aware what was happening. Upon returning to the rehearsal space a short time later, a frantic Osbourne informed them "Bill has had a heart attack! Bill has had a heart attack!" As was the case in 1980, he was replaced at short notice by
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, although this time it was always intended to be a temporary absence for Ward, health permitting. In 2000, Ward participated in a partial Black Sabbath reunion of sorts, joining Iommi and Osbourne to record the track "Who's Fooling Who" for Iommi's first
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. Since mid-2002, Ward has done a monthly internet-only radio show named ''Rock 50'' on radio station WPMD from
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in California. Ward plays a variety of metal, hard rock, and some classic rock.


Brief reunion with Black Sabbath

In October 2006, news leaked that Ward would be reuniting with
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,
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and
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for a tour though under the moniker Heaven & Hell. However, Ward later decided not to participate in the tour or continue participation in the band because of musical differences with "a couple of the other bandmembers" and a reported concern about extended touring. His spot in the band was filled by
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. On 11 November 2011, Iommi, Butler, Osbourne, and Ward announced that they were reuniting to record a new album with producer
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and to start touring in 2012. In February 2012, however, Ward left before work commenced on '' 13'', the first studio recording to include original band members Iommi, Osbourne and Butler since the live album ''
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'' (1998), which contained two new studio tracks. Ward said that he had failed to reach an agreement regarding his contract. However, he did later admit that his weight would have been an issue in a 2013 tour. Osbourne also suggested in an open letter that Ward's decision not to take part was down to his health. In April 2015, Ward criticised Osbourne on his Facebook fan page via a letter to his and the band's fans. This prompted a rebuttal from Osbourne on his Facebook page:
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drummer
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filled in for Ward for ''13''. Ward's surgery on his shoulder prevented him from playing drums again until May 2014, delaying his third studio album ''Accountable Beasts''. He had also expressed a desire to tour behind the album once it is released, provided that sales were acceptable. Ward reunited with Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler to accept the "Lifetime Achievement" award at the May 2015 Ivor Novello Awards. In 2016, Ward debuted with a new band called "Day of Errors", which played its first gig in June that year at Gaslamp in Long Beach, California and also features Joe Amodea on guitar/vocals and Kill Devil Hill singer Jason "Dewey" Bragg on vocals. Ward was due to play a string of dates with his new band in December 2017 but had to cancel these when he was hospitalised with heart problems in November. He once again reunited with Iommi and Butler in Los Angeles in May 2019, as Black Sabbath were awarded a
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. Though Sabbath did not perform,
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performed a set of their songs for the occasion. A short time later, Osbourne said in an interview that he wants to play one last show with the band's original line-up. Ward announced three weeks later on his Instagram that he loved all three of his former Black Sabbath bandmates very much and was open-minded to playing a final show with them. The last show Black Sabbath played was on 4 February 2017 in their native Birmingham, with
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on drums instead of Ward. He also says, "I would love to do a studio album with Sabbath, with all the original members. I'm just saying that I'm just floating that out there – I haven't talked to anybody about that or anything else."


Personal life

Ward has two sons, Nigel and Aron, and one daughter, Emily. According to his Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne, Ward has dramatically changed his lifestyle since Black Sabbath's 1970s and early 80s heyday. Iommi says he stopped smoking, gave up alcohol, became a vegan, and does not use drugs of any kind. Osbourne says that Ward has been sober for approximately 30 years. However, more recently Osbourne has criticised Ward's health, describing him in 2013 as "incredibly overweight" and suggesting that he would have been unable to drum for Black Sabbath had he stayed in the band following their 2011 reunion, given his physical condition, although Ward himself has insisted his health has not affected his ability to play the drums. Ward later admitted he underwent gastrointestinal surgery in 2013, and is still recovering. "Currently my health is not bad but it's certainly not good enough to play in any band, never mind Black Sabbath." By 2021, he admitted that he was no longer able to play his drum parts for Black Sabbath, but was open to recording another studio album with them. Ward stated in an interview he "lost a friend" in Osbourne after his statements about Ward's health in 2012, but maintained contact with Butler and Iommi. However, they appear to have reconciled since then, as Osbourne named Ward as one of the people that kept in touch with him during his health problems in 2019. In 2016, Ward expressed his distaste for religion saying that he grew up in a "heathen" family and did not believe in a "fire and brimstone god ..bloody rubbish!" He did however enjoy singing in Sunday church choirs growing up.


Influence

Drumming website Totaldrumsets has listed Ward among "The 100 Most Influential Drummers Ever!" and has defined him "the mastermind behind the unholy birth of heavy metal drumming". In 2016, he was ranked 42nd in
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's list ''100 Greatest Drummers of All Time''.


Equipment

Ward uses
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, Sabian cymbals,
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drumsticks, and
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.


Discography


with Black Sabbath

* ''
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'' (1970) * ''
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'' (1970) * ''
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'' (1971) * '' Vol. 4'' (1972) * ''
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'' (1973) * ''
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'' (1975) * '' Technical Ecstasy'' (1976) * ''
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'' (1978) *'' Heaven and Hell'' (1980) *'' Live at Last'' (1980) *''
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'' (1983) *''
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'' (1998) *''
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'' (2002)


with Ozzy Osbourne

* ''
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'' (1993)


with Tony Iommi

*'' Iommi'' (2000)


Solo

* '' Ward One: Along the Way'' (1990) *'' When the Bough Breaks'' (1997) *''Straws (single)'' (2002) *''The Dark Half Hour (web mix)'' (2004) *'' Accountable Beasts'' (2015)


with Bill Ward Band

* ''Arrows (song dedicated to the victims of the
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)'' (2019) * ''Once This Was A Road'' (2019) * ''Powder on the Moon'' (2020) * ''Bombers "The Remake" (a remake of "Bombers Can Open Bomb Bays"), featuring drummer Walter Earl'' (2020)


with Day of Errors

* ''Blaspheming at Creation'' (2017) - Day of Errors/Blaspheming at Creation * ''Dark'' (2019) * ''Ghost Train'' (2019)


with The Mezmerist

*''The Innocent, The Forsaken, The Guilty'' (''demo'') (1983)


Compilations

* We Sold Our Soul for Rock & Roll (1975) * ''
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'' (2000) * '' Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978'' (2002) * '' Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978'' (2004) * '' Greatest Hits 1970–1978'' (2006) * ''
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'' (2009) * '' Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath'' (2012) * ''The Ultimate Collection'' (2016) * ''The Ten Year War'' (2017)


Tribute

*'' Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath'' (1994)


References


External links

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February '09 Bill Ward Interview with Jarrod Dicker
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