https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/tv/news/bill-ward-stay-home-dad-1003819.html Age 72 years old. The 49-year-old actor bowed out of the long-running soap last week after his alter ego James Barton suffered a seizure and tragically died in hospital but, although his departure came out of the blue, he's decided to put his future work on a back-burner while he looks after his sons so his wife can return to her screen work for a bit.Speaking to Inside Soap magazine, Bill said: "My other half is an actor as well and while I've been doing 'Emmerdale' she hasn't been able to work. "However, the handsome star - who first joined the soap in 2013 - certainly isn't short of work following his shocking exit as he's been cast as evil Ebenezer in 'Aladdin'. The lyrics were by bassist Geezer Butler, and … Bill Ward; Producer(s) Patrick Meehan; Black Sabbath "Changes" is a song by Black Sabbath. “I tried to kill myself,” he recalled in a soft, but unhesitant, voice. Date of passing. Receive email updates when there are changes to this story. We rarely talk about music. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. “If a record company picks it up, it’s just icing on the cake. While he hopes to re-emerge as a recording artist, Ward has no desire to tour again.Ward said that he still has moments of regret at being out of the rock limelight but that he doesn’t feel driven to regain the stardom and the star’s fortune he squandered in his drinking days. In his sweater, workout pants and high-topped basketball sneakers, he seems more like a still-robust retired ballplayer than a former inhabitant of the rock ‘n’ roll burnout ward.As he speaks, pausing to sip tea or to draw on the latest in a continuous sequence of Marlboro Lights, Ward seems a different person from the bearded, wild man who powered Black Sabbath. I’d written songs before, but never completed them. “We just speak like old friends. “It was worth it just to play with the players and get the experience” as the project’s writer, arranger and producer, he said. By 1974, with Black Sabbath on its way toward career album sales totaling more than 30 million, Ward was ensconced in a fine, 19th-Century home overlooking an English village.“It was like the one you have in your dreams, the house on the hill,” Ward said, looking back in a recent interview.Ward said that when the band he likes to call “the Sabs” was at its peak in the ‘70s, his share of the four-way split from arena shows might come to $10,000, $30,000, even $40,000 a night.But 5 years ago, he had found his personal hell: a Skid Row existence in the alleys of Huntington Beach. Bill Ward started banging things at the age of three, using a set of cardboard boxes before graduating to a cheap drum kit four years later. Birthday May May 5, 1948 . It was just pure rock.”But if the music was pure and simple in its aggression, the marketing of Black Sabbath was an example of crafty image-making that Ward said became tiresome. View guestbook. I know what it’s like to try to kill yourself, and it was nobody’s stuff except for my own failures. Birth Sign Taurus. I started to cry. The tales are based on bedtime stories he makes up for his sons, when he isn’t taking lessons from a veteran big-band jazz drummer in an effort to develop his techinque.Phone calls from his old friend Ozzy are an almost daily part of Ward’s routine.“Bill is a good excuse for me to talk to somebody sane who’s not involved in rock ‘n’ roll,” Osbourne said over the phone this week from Pensacola, Fla., where he was about to begin a U.S. concert tour with a band that includes another former member of Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler. Bill … “There was the fear of losing the image, and the financial gains and record sales that went with it,” he said. Bill said: "I was delighted with the story.
It takes time to learn how to do these things without drinking and without drugs and to go back to playing comfortably.“I felt very confused and anxious, and I just felt horrible inside. It’s not the be-all and end-all of my life. In the first independent venture of his career, he has written, sung and produced (and is now trying to find a record company to release) an autobiographical album called “Ward One: Along the Way.” It is a thoughtful, affecting portrayal of his struggles.Four of the 11 tracks feature guest lead vocals from Ozzy Osbourne or Jack Bruce, the singer and bassist of Cream.
Become the owner of this obituary to manage the guestbook, edit the notice, and more. The thought of a tour was terrifying for me.