''Isn't the whole point of being in a band to get a shag, not make the chicks run away?' I complained to the others, afterwards.'ДЎ6. The audience freaked out the first time the band played the songВ live.В 'All the girls ran out of the venue screaming,' Ozzy wrote in his autobiography, I Am Ozzy. Video of Black Sabbath - " Black Sabbath" ДЎ5. When the band's manager insisted in 1969 that they change their name - because Earth was too generic - Butler suggested that they adopt the song's title as their own.В 'The song 'Black Sabbath' perfectly summed up the band both musically and personally at that time,' he explained to Rolling Stone. He was also a big fan of horror movies - as was Iommi - and he came up with the title 'Black Sabbath,' inspired by Mario Bava'sВ 1963В Boris Karloff anthology.ДЎ4. Butler was obsessed with the occult at the time and lived in an apartment he had painted black and decorated with inverted crosses.ДЎ3. 'It was a horrible presence that frightened the life out of me!' Butler recalled in the liner notes ofВ Sabbath's 1998 live album Reunion.ДЎ2. The song'sВ 'figure in black' was inspired by an actual shadowy figureВ thatВ bassist Geezer Butler claims to haveВ seenВ after waking up from a nightmare, an experience he relayed to Ozzy. The band recognized that they were on to something specialВ as soon as they wrote 'Black Sabbath.'В 'We knew instantly that 'Black Sabbath' was very different to what was around at the time,' Iommi said to Rolling Stone.ДЎ1. The song and Iommi's playing style in general was also shapedВ by an accident at aВ sheet-metalВ factory accident that severed offВ the tips of his middle fingers on his fretting handВ when the guitarist was 17.В IommiВ fashioned prostheticВ fingertips using plastic from a dish detergent bottle and detuned his strings to make them easier to play.ДЎ0. The riff was inspired by a movement in Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets titledВ 'Mars, the Bringer of War', whichВ Iommi reimagined.Д©. diabolus in musicaВ orВ 'devil inВ music' due to its evil, dissonantВ sound.ДЁ. The song is based almost entirely on theВ tritoneВ interval - a.k.a. We knew it totally represented each one of us.'Д§. Then Tony topped it all by coming up with the menacing riff at the end. 'Black Sabbath' was written in 'a couple of hours,' according to Butler.В 'Tony played the riff and we all just joined in,' he told Rolling Stone.В 'Ozzy spontaneously sang the lyrics. Earth's second original song was 'Black Sabbath.'Д¦. The four-pieceВ Earth mostly played covers, but their first original song was 'Wicked World,' which would serve asВ the B-side to Black Sabbath's debut singleВ 'Evil Woman' and appear on theВ U.S. Drummer Bill Ward eventually came up a new name for the band: Earth.Д¤. The Polka Tulk Blues Band was aВ six-piece featuring a bottleneck-slide-guitar player and a saxophone player.ДЈ. Black Sabbath were originally calledВ the Polka Tulk Blues Band afterВ the brand of talcum powder Ozzy Osbourne's mom preferred.Дў. Rolling Stone recently published an extensive, in-depth history of the record, but for thoseВ more inclined to digest their info in bite-sized chunks, here are 50 strikingВ facts about metal's momentousВ first shot.ДЎ. Just as the album still offers up secrets and surprises on repeat listens, so the history around it is still being uncovered. Dark, crushing, sinister and timeless, it's 40 minutes of groundbreakingВ perfection, as revelatory today as it was when it was released in the grimВ winter ofВ 1970 - from Ozzy Osbourne'sВ otherworldly yowl and Tony Iommi's immortal riffs toВ Geezer Butler's rumbling bass lines and occult-tinged lyrics, and Bill Ward's thundering drums. Ozzy Osbourne stated in 2019 - prior to many of his health issues - that he'd like to perform one last Black Sabbath gig with Bill Ward.It's heavy-metal ground zero: Black Sabbath's self-titled debut. IвЂ™m very open-minded about doing something like that.вЂќ I can lay track at my studio in Los Angeles. Which I can do safely, even with Covid around. вЂњI havenвЂ™t spoken to the guys about it, but I have talked to a couple of people in management about the possibility of making a recording. The way I play the drums, itвЂ™s becoming tougher as I get older. Nothing live necessarily, because IвЂ™m looking at what I can realistically do. He added: вЂњMy biggest contention has been вЂletвЂ™s make another albumвЂ™. вЂњAs far as IвЂ™m concerned, the bookвЂ™s never closed with Sabbath! IвЂ™m writing like a demon, IвЂ™m living life,вЂќ Bill said. After previously posting a video in 2019 stating heвЂ™s вЂњopenвЂќ to a Black Sabbath reunion, Bill told Metro heвЂ™s spoken to their representatives about potentially recording new music.

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