A tribute to heavy metal and hard rock fans
Off their 2nd LP Paranoid, released 18th September 1970. Paranoid is considered one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time and contains perhaps three of Black Sabbath’s most famous songs: War Pigs, Paranoid, and this track: Iron Man.
Off Ozzy Osbourne’s Ozzfest 10th Anniversary (2005) DVD.
This was around the same time as the incident with Iron Maiden.
Off the Never Say Die: Live in 1978 DVD, released in 2003.
Venue: Hammersmith Odeon.
A year later, due to “internal conflicts and an evident lack of commitment due to drugs,” Ozzy would be asked to leave the band. He would not permanently return until 1997.
It was released earlier in the same year. Off Paranoid. An anti-war song. The opening track on Paranoid, Black Sabbath’s best selling album.
Only available as a bootleg recording.
Black Sabbath was formed in 1968. Their first LP, Black Sabbath was released 13th February 1970. The followup album, Paranoid was released in the same year.
Probably their most well-known bootleg concert live video was recorded in Paris, France on 20th December 1970. DVD is available at ebay.com. There are 8 tracks, the first one being Paranoid. This is the video:
The original line-up of Black Sabbath temporarily reunited for one 3-song show for Live Aid 1985. They performed Children Of The Grave, Iron Man & Paranoid. They would finally reunite for good 12 years later.
Venue: JFK Stadium, Philadelphia
Attendance: est 90,000.
Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979. The original line-up of Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward finally reunited in 1997.
Date recorded: 4-5 December 1997 (that’s why the change in Ozzy’s shirt?)
Venue: Birmingham NEC
Note: Off Reunion, a 2 CD live album. This was the first Black Sabbath official live album featuring Ozzy.
Ozzy Osbourne performs as a solo artist but has original Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler. Completing the lineup: new guitarist Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo, John Sinclair.
Venue: Moscow’s largest stadium, Lenin Stadium.
Turnout: > 100,000.
About the festival: The event was the first rock concert to be held at the stadium. Other groups performing included Scorpions, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. It was a one-time gathering of high-profile hard rock acts who put on a concert for the people in Moscow to promote world peace and establish international cooperation in fighting the drug war in Russia. The fact that many of the performers were themselves drug users is another story.
“The concert exposed the Soviet Union to western culture, rock music, and united what was considered a very divisive world previously. The concert was also a pinnacle moment in glam metal and the peak in hard rock music’s popularity.”
Paranoid appeared on their second, and breakthrough album of the same name. Supposedly written in 15 minutes based on a guitar solo by Tony Iommi. It is one of Black Sabbath’s most well known songs. Paranoid was ranked No.1 in a Martin Popoff book “The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time”. He requested metal fans, musicians, and journalists to tell him their favourite heavy metal songs: received 18,000 individual votes.
This is apparently the original music video (confirmation needed):
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