Two original members left, Tony Iommi and Butler grandmother, has launched a new singer auditions for the next version of the band. After a failed attempt by the likes of Whitesnake David Coverdale, Samson, Nicky Moore, John Sloman and Lone Star, the group settled on the former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan to replace Ronnie James Dio in December 1982. Although this project was not originally to be called Black Sabbath, the pressure of record companies have forced the group to keep the name. The group entered the Manor Studios in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, in June 1983 with Bill Ward and carried back to the battery. Born Again was greeted with mixed reviews from fans and critics. The album reached number four in the UK charts and number 39 in the United States. However, even a decade after his release from Eduardo Rivadavia Allmusic called the album "terrible," noting that "Gillan blues styles and funny song is completely at odds with leaders of doom and gloomy."
Although he performed on the album, drummer Bill Ward was unable to turn because of pressure from the street and left the group after the start of the album Born Again. "I fell apart with the idea of touring," Ward said later. "I was so scared behind the tower, I do not speak of fear, I'm afraid to drink the back instead and it was a big mistake." Ward was replaced by former Electric Light Bev Bevan Orchestradrummer Born Again in '83 - '84 world tour (often informally called "Sabbath death Feigh '83 - '84 'World Tour) that began in Europe with Diamond Head and the United States to Quiet Riot and Night Ranger. Band called Reading Festival 1983, by adding Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water" in their set list.
Born Again Tour supports the inclusion of a set of giant monument of Stonehenge. In a move that was later parodied in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the group made a mistake in ordering a set piece. As a grandmother Butler then explained:
We have Sharon Osbourne's father, Don Arden, managing us. He came up with the idea of the scenery to be Stonehenge. He wrote the dimensions and give it to our tour manager. He wrote in meters, but he intends to write it up. The people who gave the impression of fifty feet instead of fifteen feet. It is 45 meters and does not fit on the stage anywhere if we just leave it in the storage area. Cost much money to be made, but there is not a building on land that you can put it.
