Bolton has previously dismissed the story as "a rumour" Michael Bolton once auditioned to be in Black Sabbath, according to the band’s Tony Iommi.
The guitarist was speaking to GibsonTV last month in a lengthy interview which covered his life and career in Black Sabbath, who bowed out for good in 2017.
Iommi recalled in the interview how Black Sabbath went about finding a new vocalist following the departure of the late Ronnie James Dio in November 1982. “I phoned David Coverdale up, and he said, ‘Oh, I just got this band together, Whitesnake.
Why didn’t you phone me before?'” Iommi said (46:00 in the below interview). “I said: ‘Because [Dio] hadn’t left before; it’s happened now.'” “It just went on a bit, and we couldn’t decide.” Black
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