BLACK SABBATH OZZY Germany Paris London Live Double CD 1970 VERY Rare SALE For Sale

BLACK SABBATH with OZZY

DISC ONE

1. BLACK SABBATH 9.24

2. WAR PIGS (WALPURGIS) 8.14

3. FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS 6.54

4. BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP 5.05

5. BLACK SABBATH 6.51

6. PARANOID 2.42

7. IRON MAN 5.51

8. BLUE SUEDE SHOES 2.03

Tracks 1-4 John Peel's Sunday Show,

26th April, 1970

Tracks 5-8 The Beat Club, Bremen, Germany, 25th May, 1970

DISC TWO

1. PARANOID 3.08

2. HAND OF DOOM 8.03

3. IRON MAN 6.27

4. BLACK SABBATH 8.36

5. N.I.B 5.50

6. BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP 5.23

7. WAR PIGS 7.58

8. FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS 6.44

Olympia Theatre, Paris, 19th December, 1970

Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals

Tony lommi - Guitar

Geezer Butler - Bass Guitar

Bill Ward - Drums

The band's first show as Black Sabbath took place on 30 August 1969, in Workington, England. They were signed to Philips Records in November 1969, and released their first single, "Evil Woman" (a cover of a song by the band Crow), recorded at Trident Studios, through Philips subsidiary Fontana Records in January

1970. Later releases were handled by Philips' newly formed progressive rock label, Vertigo Records.

Black Sabbath's first major exposure came when the band appeared on John Peel's Top Gear radio show in 1969, performing "Black Sabbath", "N.I.B.", "Behind the Wall of Sleep", and "Sleeping Village" to a national audience in Great Britain shortly before recording of their first album commenced. Although the "Evil Woman" single failed to chart, the band were afforded two days of studio time in November to record their debut album with producer Rodger Bain. lommi 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." Black Sabbath was released on Friday the 13th, February 1970, and reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart. Following its U.S. and Canadian release in May 1970 by Warner Bros. Records, the album reached number 23 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for over a year. The album was given negative reviews by many critics. Lester Bangs dismissed it in a Rolling Stone review as "discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like velocitised speedfreaks all over each other's musical perimeters, yet never quite finding synch".

It sold in substantial numbers despite being panned, giving the band their first mainstream exposure. It has since been certified platinum in both U.S. by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and in the UK by British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and is now generally accepted as the first heavy metal album.

The band returned to the studio in June 1970, just four months after Black Sabbath was released. The new album was initially set to be named War Pigs after the song "War Pigs",

" which was critical of the Vietnam

War; however, Warner changed the title of the album to Paranoid. The album's lead-off single, "Paranoid", was written in the studio at the last minute. Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the [Paranoid] guitar lick and that was it. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom." The single was released in September 1970 and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, remaining Black Sabbath's only top ten hit. The album followed in the UK in October 1970, where, pushed by the success of the "Paranoid" single, it made number one in the charts.

The U.S. release was held off until January 1971, as the Black Sabbath album was still on the charts at the time of Paranoid's UK release. Black Sabbath subsequently toured the United States for the first time and played their first U.S. show at a club called Ungano's at 210 West 70th Street in New York City. The album reached No. 12 in the U.S. in March 1971, and would go on to sell four million copies in the U.S., with virtually no radio airplay. Like Black Sabbath, the album was panned by rock critics of the era, but modern-day reviewers such as AllMusic's Steve Huey cite Paranoid as "one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time", which "defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history". The album was ranked at No. 131 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Paranoid's chart success allowed the band to tour the U.S. for the first time in October 1970, which spawned the release of the album's second single "Iron Man".

'. Although the single failed to reach the

top 40, Iron Man" remains one of Black Sabbath's most popular songs, as well as the band's highest charting U.S. single until 1998's "Psycho Man".

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