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"Black Sabbath" is a song by the English heavy metal band of the same name, written in 1969 and released on their eponymous debut album in 1970. In the same year, the song appeared as an A-side on a four-track 12-inch single, with "The Wizard" also on the A-side and "Evil Woman" and "Sleeping Village" on the B-side, on the Philips Records label Vertigo.
On 11 November 1969 Black Sabbath recorded a 4-song session for John Peel's Top Gear radio show. [40] The four songs were "Black Sabbath", "N.I.B.", "Behind the Wall of Sleep" and "Sleeping Village". Broadcast on 29 November 1969, this gave them their first exposure to a UK wide audience. [20]
According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a 12-hour session on 16 October 1969. [8] [nb 1] [10] Iommi said: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it.
The song's title has long been a source of speculation, with some fans over the years interpreting the title as meaning "Nativity in Black" or "Name in Blood". In the early 1990s, Geezer Butler claimed that the title was a reference to drummer Bill Ward 's beard at that time, which his bandmates felt looked like a pen nib . [ 3 ]
The discography of Black Sabbath, an English heavy metal band, includes 19 studio albums, eight live albums, 13 compilation albums, nine video albums, three extended plays and 37 singles. The band was formed in 1968 by John "Ozzy" Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (lead guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums).
'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath ... and 15 minutes later I had a song," he said in a 2019 Guitar World ... knowing only a few chords," he said. The song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 for four ...
Seventh Star is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath.Released on 28 January 1986 in the United States and on 21 February 1986 in the United Kingdom, [3] it features founding guitarist Tony Iommi alongside musicians Geoff Nicholls, Eric Singer, and Dave Spitz, playing keyboards, drums, and bass, respectively, and Glenn Hughes, ex-Deep Purple and ex-Trapeze vocalist, as ...
The Mexican Rock Band Supernauta named the band after the Black Sabbath's song. Candlemass included a minute of this song in Black Sabbath Medley on their album Ancient Dreams. Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Sapattivuosi Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Supernautti'.