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The band began in 1968 as a blues rock band on the cover circuit of Birmingham, England. Clawing their way up from the postwar bombed-out suburbs of Birmingham, the four members - guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, singer Ozzy Osbourne, and drummer Bill Ward - would define a new genre of music and make themselves world famous.
Joel McIver explores the complete history of Sabbath, from the precursor bands to the release of the holy trinity of heavy metal - Black Sabbath (the song) on Black Sabbath (the album) by Black Sabbath (the band) - to the present. With over 150 photos, a gatefold family tree tracing the development of the band, a complete discography, and a foreword by Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn, this is the must-have book for any Sabbath fan.
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BY ROBB FLYNN
It all started with a lyric.
Make a joke and I will sigh, and you will laugh and I will cry / Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. Id never heard anything so depressing and dark in music. Up until then, music was uplifting, for the most part. If it was dark, it was usually My baby left me, but this? Wow. I related to it in a way I cannot quite put into words.
It certainly didnt hurt that I was stoned out of my mind for the first time in my life. Having cut school with some buddies to smoke weed and listen to records, I wasnt prepared for the music my buddy Elvisyes, that was his real nameplayed. As I sat there staring at the inner gatefold of We Sold Our Souls for Rock n Roll, gazing at the empty-eyed girl lying in a coffin with a chrome cross lying across her breast, I didnt know what the hell to think of this Black Sabbath band, but it scared the shit out of meand I convinced myself that I would burn in hell for the rest of my life if I continued to listen to it.
Then my friend played Iron Manand that was it.
Turn it off! I blurted. This is freaking me out!
Black Sabbath scared me so much I didnt want to listen to it any more.
Three days later, we cut school again. Elvis raided his dads weed stash again, and we got high as kitesbut this time, I had to hear Black Sabbath again. In those three days I could not get that lyric out of my head, or the ridiculously catchy song that the lyric came from.
Robb Flynn of Machine Head plays at Lucky Strike Live on January 22, 2016, in Hollywood, California.
Dude, put on that Black Sabbath again, I said.
This time, I was mesmerized. Evil, sinister, otherworldly, and impossibly heavyI had never heard music like it. It blew me away, and from that point on I jumped headfirst down the rabbit hole.
I went about collecting every Sabbath album I could find. I searched out the rare US version with Evil Woman on it, and the semi-official bootleg Live at Last, where Ozzy fucked up most of the lyrics, but who cared! By the time I got to Master of Reality, that was it. They had me forever. Songs about evil women, weed, mushrooms, cocaine, Satan, war, wanting to see the Pope at the end of a ropeI couldnt get enough.
Much is made about the satanic aspect of Black Sabbath, and I loved that side of them, but for me I was always struck by the protest/fuck you side of the band. An antiwar song like War Pigs, written at the height of the Vietnam War, at a time when very serious repercussions could come to you for saying such things, was inspirational to me. Then there was Hand of Doom, with its warning about heroin use, the questioning of authority, of religion, of the status quo these guys became heroes to me. Hell, a teenage Robb Flynn even wrote them a letter imploring them to get back together and play my townand if they did, I would proudly display a sign asking them to play Sweet Leaf.
Ive been fortunate enough to tour with Black Sabbath twice, and they were the real deal. Terrifyingly heavy, beautiful, magical, Sabbath are and always will be the greatest band of all time.
ROBB FLYNN, MACHINE HEAD
2016
Black Sabbath , in any of its incarnations across its forty-seven-year career to date, is a force of nature. Inventing heavy metal and doom metal at a stroke, thrilling the wise with epic fantasy lyrics, and scaring the weak-witted with Satanic flirtations, Sabbath has done it all. That includes every high (commercial and substance-derived), low, and plateau imaginable, including periods of total unfashionability and others of godlike regard.
Im glad to say that as the careers of the current lineupwhich is to say singer Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, and bassist Geezer Butler (drummer Bill Ward is neither in nor out of the band as we speak)draw to a close, Sabbath has never been more popular. The bands final studio album, 13, was a global hit, and the immense farewell tour that concluded in 2016 was a true colossus. Telling this bands story has been a privilege for me.
Photographs of (from left) Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler from 1970.
Ive been talking to musicians for almost twenty years, and musos of the rock and metal persuasion tend to like Black Sabbaths music, so Ive had no shortage of material to draw on. Interviews personally conducted by me over the last few years include chats with Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill themselves, plus sometime Sabbath alumni Glenn Hughes, Ian Gillan, Ronnie James Dio, Bob Daisley, Dave Spitz, and Tony Martin. Sabbaths first manager, Jim Simpson, provided plenty of illuminating insights, too.
Other musical luminaries who shared their opinions about Sabbath with me include Ritchie Blackmore, Bobby Rondinelli, Leo Lyons (Ten Years After), Tom Araya and Kerry King (Slayer), John Lydon, Ian Lemmy Kilmister, King Diamond, Nikki Sixx (Mtley Cre), Bill Gould (Faith No More), Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Geddy Lee (Rush), Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society), Paul Allender (Cradle of Filth), the late Dimebag Darrell Abbott (Pantera/Damageplan), Ice-T, Joey Jordison and Mick Thomson (Slipknot), Bobby Ellsworth (Overkill), Jeff Becerra (Possessed), Conrad Lant and Jeff Dunn (Venom), John Bush (Armored Saint, Anthrax), Katon W. DePena (Hirax), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth), Phil Fasciana (Malevolent Creation), Sean Harris (Diamond Head), and Rob Halford (Judas Priest). Quite a stellar gathering, Im sure youll agree. These people give a truly widescreen perspective to the whole Sabbath storyand one that this most august of metal bands deserves.
This book accompanies Black Sabbaths farewell with a look back at a frankly insane career. Cheers to Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill: you really couldnt make this story up.
JOEL McIVER
Black Sabbath photographed in a giant shell in Long Beach in September, 1975.
19481969
J ohn Michael Osbourne, born on December 3, 1948, and raised in the home of his parents Jack and Lillian at 14 Lodge Road in Aston, a bombed-out suburb of Birmingham, England, should by rights have spent forty-five years working in a factory before dying in his sixties. That was the career path laid down by tradition for men of his era and demographic. Instead, Ozzyas we might as well refer to him from now onbecame one of the worlds most recognizable rock stars. What were the chances?
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