Frank Skinner has shared what Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath’s connections to Birmingham have meant to him. caught up with Frank after the press conference to share what the Sabbath legacy and Tony’s enduring work in music means to him. There aren't that many band - I mean, Oasis Manchester, Beatles Liverpool - but there aren’t many bands that have got their cities so intrinsically tied onto them as Sabbath has. There aren't many people [like Tony] who are so universally lauded as the beginning of it all. “And it is a very Birmingham thing.