• Tony Iommi & Glenn Hughes

2004 Credits

• Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar
• Glenn Hughes - Vocals, Bass
• Don Airey - Keyboards
• Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards
• Mike Exeter - Keyboards
• Jimmy Copley - Drums
• Drums re-recorded at Tone Hall Birmingham (Mar/Apr 2004)
• Mixed by Mike Exeter at Tome Hall and The Sound Loft, Birmingham (2004)
• Mastered by Dick Beetham at 360 Mastering, London
• Executive Producer: Ralph Baker
• Produced by Tony Iommi

Bootleg Credits

• Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar
• Glenn Hughes - Vocals, Bass
• Don Airey - Keyboards
• Dave Holland - Drums
• Originally recorded at Cabin Studios, Coventry & DEP Studios, Birmingham (Jul-Dec 1996)
• Engineered by Mike Exeter & Kit Woolven (at DEP) & Paul Samson at Cabin (1996)

Catalogue Numbers

• CD Sanctuary 06076-84724-2 US
• CD Mayan MYNCD030 UK

• * - "Shakin' My Wings" does not actually have Tony Iommi on it.  Glenn Hughes is on it, but Iommi isn't.
• "I'm Gone" was also released by Glenn Hughes under the title "Gone" on his 2000 album, "The Return of Crystal Karma".
• The "No Stranger to Love" remix is the audio version of the music video for the same track from the Seventh Star album, as it's different than the one that appears on the actual album.
• The main riff from the song "Don't you Tell Me" turned up in the song "Black Oblivion" from the 2001 album "Iommi".
• This album was originally recorded back in October & December of 1996, and was never officially released until 2004.  A bootleg version has been floating around collector's circles since 1999 and has been known as "Eighth Star".
• The image below is the cover from the bootlegged version of the album.

• Here's a quite by Jimmy Copley on his work doing the drums for this release:
  "I can't tell you how great it is to work with Tony and Glenn. I was blown away with the power and energy they produce. Tony's manager, Ralph, called me to say they needed to re-record the drums and as I was going off to Russia with M3 we only had a couple of days to do it. I went to Tony's studio on a Wednesday and it went so well we finished the whole thing by lunchtime on Friday. Which was just as well as I left for Russia on Saturday. I used Cozy's [Powell] old recording kit with a 26" Kick, a really big warm sound, and my old 67 Ludwig Snare (the old faithful)! It's great playing to completed tracks, hearing Glenn's vocals/bass and Tony's guitar coming back at you; you can't help but be inspired. So we just went track after track, just me and Mike Exeter (engineer) and Tony would come in and say 'Yeah' or 'Can you try this?' or 'Do you fancy a bit of pork pie?' We had so much Stilton and pork pie that I called it the Pork Pie Project. All in all great music, great people. What more could you want? By the way, a special thanks to Mike Clement (Tony's tech) and a true gent."

• Alexander Rack's "Eighth Star" bootleg info page can be reached here.