Fact #117187

Tony Iommi : The first time I tried coke was backstage LA Forum in 1971. I happened to say to one of the guys in the crew, ‘You know, I really feel tired tonight.’ He said, ‘Why don’t you have a line?’ Of course I’d been around it for a while, but I would never take it. He said, ‘Go on, it’ll really perk you up. And so I did. I only had a little bit. One line. But for me, it felt great.

Source : interview by Paul Elliott for Classic Rock, 2014)