We never used to get asked back to anywhere that we played, so I think we were probably really crap. We all used to go on with painted faces and do this stupid psychedelic show. “Rare Breed was just … we were a bit loony,” Butler says. After answering a music shop’s oddly worded ad – “Ozzy Zig Needs Gig” – the guitarist and drummer met two musicians from another local group, Rare Breed: Osbourne and then-guitarist Butler. tour and remembered thinking, “This will be fun for a few years, then it’s back to the fucking factory.” That might have been the case had Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward not slugged it out for a couple of years before the 1970 release of their self-titled debut.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Timeīlack Sabbath formed in 1968 in Birmingham, England, a city Iommi has since called “depressing,” after a short-lived jazzy, blues-rock band called Mythology broke up, making the guitarist and Ward free agents. In a previous Rolling Stone interview this year, the singer looked back on Sabbath’s U.S.
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And here we are, fucking nearly 50 years up the road, and we’re still relevant today.”Īs the group winds down the first leg of its farewell tour – dubbed “The End,” full stop – the band members haven’t lost sight of how they started. “It was, ‘I know a singer, I know a guitar player.’ We all came from a three-mile radius and got together and we had a go. “One of the greatest things I have in my heart is that Black Sabbath were not a band created by some business mogul in London, like a fucking ditz,” the pioneering heavy-metal group’s excitable frontman Ozzy Osbourne tells Rolling Stone emphatically.
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