Osbourne would later form a band with former Birchfield Road School classmate Tony Iommi,[4] after he auditioned for lead singer. During this time, psychedelic rock was enormously popular. To distinguish themselves from the norm, Iommi and his partners decided to play a heavy blues-inspired style of music laced with gloomy lyrics.[8] Names for the band included Polka Tulk and Earth. top online fax