The song Ian Gillan said is one of his favorites of all time

Born in Chiswick, Middlesex, England back in 1945, the vocalist Ian Gillan started his musical career in 1962, when he was still a teenager. But everything would go to the next level when he joined Deep Purple in 1969 and recorded with them albums like “Deep Purple in Rock” (1970), Fireball (1971) and “Machine Head” (1972).

He left and joined the group a few times over the decades but he has been a constant member since 1992. He had the chance to work with other musicians too and to see a lot of bands play. Once he revealed which were one of his favorite songs of all time.

The song Ian Gillan said is one of his favorites of all time

Gillan first left Deep Purple in 1973 and two years later started his solo career. But in 1983 he joined Black Sabbath, recording the album “Born Again” (1983) alongside the band’s original members Bill Ward (Drums), Geezer Butler (Bass) and Tony Iommi (Guitar).

‘Trashed” was one of the tracks of that album and curiously, Gillan said is one of his favorite songs of all time. The musician said that in an interview with Spain’s RockFM in 2022. He explained the reason why he hated the album, although he loves that song.

“I didn’t break it (the record); I threw it out of the window of my car (laughs). Look, I was disappointed, I didn’t have the mentality of all the guys in Black Sabbath. I loved it, I had a fantastic year. It was insane. But, when we finished the mixes – I still have a cassette of the monitor mixes, and it sounds fantastic. That’s the last thing I heard in the recording studio. When I heard the album, I went, ‘What is this?’ The bass rumble was a bit too much for me. There’s a famous line in a famous movie called ‘This is Spinal Tap’, that has two or three references to Black Sabbath in it.”

He continued:

“I don’t know where these might have come from (laughs), but one of them was, ‘This album is unplayable on American radio’, because of the bass end. And so it was. Unplayable. I was disappointed in the final production mix. I don’t know what happened between the studio and the factory. But something happened, so that was a disappointment. Having said that, I loved some of the songs on there. ‘Trashed’ is one of my favorite rock ‘n’ roll songs of all time. Even more so because it’s a completely true story (laughs),” Ian Gillan said.

Bill Ward, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler also didn’t like the final result of the album mixing. Iommi even said a few times he would like to remix the album the way it should have been made. Besides “Trashed”, that album also had praised songs like “Disturbing the Priest”, “Zero The Hero” and the title-track.

It was the only album Gillan recorded with Sabbath since he left the group in 1984 for the Deep Purple reunion. It was also Bill Ward’s final studio album with the Heavy Metal band.

Gillan believes Black Sabbath is more important than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin

Although Gillan is best known as the vocalist of Deep Purple, he said in an interview with The Sun that Black Sabbath is historically more important than his band and Led Zeppelin. The three bands are often called the “unholy” trinity of heavier music.

“Just like ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’, the ‘unholy trinity’ was created entirely by our good friends, the music journalists. We knew them, drank with them and they put into words what everyone was doing — something distinctive and identifiable.”

“To a certain extent, Sabbath were the most important. Because without them there would have been no Seattle (grunge scene) or Heavy Metal. What Tony was delivering in those early days was just awesome. It was so powerful.”

“The three bands did something that had never been done before. They were putting into action all the things that had been building up over the previous ten years,” Ian Gillan said.