Black Sabbath

Band members

Cozy Powell played drums in Black Sabbath first from October 1988 to October or November 1990. Originally he was meant to be only a recording member of the band, but in February 1989 Black Sabbath announced that he's a full member of the band.

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History of Black Sabbath before Ronnie James Dio

- Polka Tulk/Earth, Autumn 1967-January 1969
  - Ozzy Osbourne (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geezer Butler (bass) /
    Bill Ward (drums)

- Black Sabbath, January 1969-May 1979
  - Ozzy Osbourne (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geezer Butler (bass) /
    Bill Ward (drums) / Rick Wakeman (keyboards) / Don Airey (keyboards) /
    Jeff Woodruffe (keyboards) / Dave Walker (vocals)
  - Ozzy Osbourne left the band for a couple of months in October, 1977 and
    was replaced by Dave Walker. Walker appeared live with the band only once
    in January 1978 on BBC Midlands TV broadcast in UK and was fired from the
    band immediately afterwards. Ozzy Osbourne returned back to the band in
    the same month.
  - Recorded albums
    - Black Sabbath (February 13th, 1970, various re-releases, including
      December 1973 and January 1976. Reached #8 on UK charts and #23 on US
      charts)
    - Paranoid (September 18th, 1970, various re-releases, including December
      1973 and January 1976. Reached #1 on UK charts, #2 in German charts
      and #12 on US charts)
    - Master Of Reality (July 1971, various re-releases, including December
      1973 and January 1976. Reached #5 on UK and German charts and #8 on
      US charts)
    - Volume 4 (September 1972, various re-releases, including December 1973
      and January 1976. Reached #8 on UK charts and #13 on US charts)
    - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (December 1973, various re-releases, including
      June 1980. Reached #4 on UK charts, #49 on German charts and #11 on US
      charts)
    - Sabotage (July 1975, various re-releases, including June 1980. Reached
      #7 on UK charts and #28 on US charts)
    - Technical Ecstasy (October 1976, re-released in June 1980. Reached #13
      on UK charts)
    - Never Say Die (October 1978, reached #13 on UK charts)

History of Black Sabbath after Ronnie James Dio left the band

- Black Sabbath, January 1983-January 1984
  - Ian Gillan (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) /  Geezer Butler (bass) /
    Bill Ward (drums) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)
  - Recorded album
    - Born Again (August 1983, reached #4 on UK charts and #39 on US charts)

- Black Sabbath, January 1984-March 1984
  - Ian Gillan (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geezer Butler (bass) / Bev
    Bevan (drums) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)

- Black Sabbath, March 1984-?
  - Dave Donato (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geezer Butler (bass) / Bev
    Bevan (drums) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)

- Black Sabbath, July 13th, 1985
  - Ozzy Osbourne (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geezer Butler (bass) /
    Bill Ward (drums)
  - The band rejoined in the original line-up for Live Aid show and disbanded
    again after that

- Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi, September 1985-March 1986
  - Glenn Hughes (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)
    / Dave Spitz (bass) / Eric Singer (drums)
  - Tony Iommi wanted this to become his solo effort, but the record company
    wanted it to be called Black Sabbath. Eventually they agreed that the
    project will have name Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi.
  - Recorded album
    - Seventh Star (February 1986, reached #27 on UK charts)

- Black Sabbath, March 1986-October 1986
  - Ray Gillen (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Dave Spitz (bass) / Eric Singer (drums)

- Black Sabbath, October 1986-August 1987
  - Ray Gillen (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Bob Daisley (bass) / Eric Singer (drums)
  - The band tried to release an album, but after the recordings of it they
    decided to discard the recorded tapes and fired Ray Gillen. The tapes
    started to circulate later among the Black Sabbath fans as The Eternal
    Idol demos.

- Black Sabbath, August 1987-January 1988
  - Tony Martin (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Bob Daisley (bass) / Eric Singer (drums)
  - The band used the tapes recorded with Ray Gillen, and the new singer Tony
    Martin sung on them.
  - Released album
    - The Eternal Idol (November 1987, reached #66 on UK charts)

- Black Sabbath, February 1988-March 1988
  - Tony Martin (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Jo Burt (bass) / Terry Chimes (drums)
  - Toured in UK for The Eternal Idol

- Black Sabbath, October 1988-May 1989
  - Tony Martin (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Laurence Cottle (bass) / Cozy Powell (drums)
  - Released album
    - Headless Cross (April 24th, 1989. Reached #31 on UK charts and appeared
      in top-20 in Germany)

Black Sabbath, June 1989-October 1990
  - Tony Martin (vocals) / Tony Iommi (guitars) / Geoff Nicholls (keyboards) /
    Neil Murray (bass) / Cozy Powell (drums)
  - Released album
    - TYR (August 20th, 1990. Reached #24 on UK charts and #12 in Germany)

- Black Sabbath, late 1994-
  - Cozy Powell (drums) / Tony Iommi (guitars)
  - Cozy Powell was invited back to Black Sabbath after Bobby Rondinelli
    left the band with Geezer Butler

He COZY rejoined Black Sabbath in 1994 after Black Sabbath's drummer Bobby
Rondinelli had left the band with Geezer Butler.