Black Sabbath: In the 1970s

The 1970s saw the rise of rock and metal as a force in both record and ticket sales. Right there at the birth of this was Black Sabbath, whose first album came from nowhere to reach the top of the charts in Britain and around the world. The book covers the career of the original foursome - Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward – from early bands Polka Tulk and Earth and their original nine years as Black Sabbath, when the band recorded such iconic albums as Paranoid, Sabbat...