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UK stoner favourites Orange Goblin to call it quits after 2025 tour: “Now is the right time for us to focus our attention on our families and other interests outside the band”
“I’m still amazed to this day that no one outside of Birmingham can understand a word I say!” Founding Black Sabbath members to be awarded with Freedom Of The City honour by Birmingham City Council