LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES SEPTEMBER 18, 2019-FORTY NINE YEARS AGO BLACK SABBATH RELEASED THEIR ICONIC ALBUM ’PARANOID.’
HERE IS SOME PARANOID TRIVIA:
– THE BAND RELEASED THIS ALBUM ONLY 7 MONTHS AFTER THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT HIT THE CHARTS
– SABBATH WANTED TO CALL THE ALBUM “WAR PIGS” BUT THEIR LABEL DIDN’T WANT TO PISS OFF VIETNAM WAR SUPPORTERS.
– WHILE THE BAND CHANGED THE NAME TO “PARANOID” THEY REFUSED TO CHANGE THE COVER ART, WHICH SHOWED A PIG WITH A SWORD
– ‘IRON MAN’ WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ‘IRON BLOKE.’ OZZY CAME UP WITH IRON BLOKE AFTER SAYING THE TRACK SOUNDED LIKE “A BIG IRON BLOKE WALKING AROUND.” THE BAND LATER CHANGED THE TITLE TO ‘IRON MAN.’
– GEEZER BUTLER ONCE SAID THAT ‘FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS’ WAS INSPIRED BY A BAD ENCOUNTER OZZY HAD WITH SKINHEADS! TONY IOMMI CLAIMED IT WAS DERIVED FROM AN INCIDENT WHERE GEEZER AND OZZY WERE SMOKING POT AND SAW FAIRIES IN BOOTS RUNNING AROUND A PARK.
– ‘WAR PIGS’ WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED ‘WALPURGIS’, THE STANIC VERSION OF CHRISTMAS. GEEZER SAID BECAUSE WAR WAS LIKE SATAN SINCE IT’S ONLY ABOUT EVIL.
– PARANOID IS SABBATH’S BEST SELLING ALBUM, HAVING SOLD MORE THAN 4 MILLION COPIES IN THE US.
HERE’S THE ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO FROM 1970 FOR ‘PARANOID’
AND HERE’S SABBATH PERFORMING ‘FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS’ CIRCA 1970
