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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Budgie, Squawk, Master of Reality, Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Rocka Rolla, We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll, Greatest Hits 1970-1978. Excerpt: Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is the debut eponymous studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath . Released on 13 February 1970 in the United Kingdom, and later on 1 June 1970 in the United States, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and has been recognised as one of the main albums to be credited with the development of the heavy metal genre. Recording In August 1969 the band, who were then known as Earth, decided to change their name to Black Sabbath, because there was another band also known as Earth, and also as homage to a 1963 classic Mario Bava terror film starring Boris Karloff . Around the same time they recorded and distributed a demo version of their eponymous song. In December 1969 they recorded and released their debut single, "Evil Woman ". In January 1970, the band recorded and mixed the remaining seven songs that would appear on their debut album. According to guitarist Tony Iommi , "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland." Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff." Music and lyrics Musically and lyrically the album was considered quite "dark" for the time. The first song on the album is based almost entirely on a tritone interval played at slow tempo on the electric guitar. The song's lyrics concern a "figure in black" whi...
Albums Produced by Rodger Bain; Budgie, Squawk, Master of Reality, Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Rocka Rolla, We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll
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