The album's title track was written as an afterthought. Paranoid was recorded at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London, England. In an effort to capitalise on the recent UK chart success of their eponymous debut album, Black Sabbath returned to the studio with producer Rodger Bain in June 1970, just four months after the album was released. Paranoid was the band's only album to top the UK Albums Chart until the release of 13 in 2013. The album is often cited a key influence for the development of the heavy metal music genre as well as one of the earliest heavy metal albums. In a 2017 publication by Rolling Stone magazine, Paranoid was ranked number one on its list of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". The album contains several of the band's signature songs, including " Iron Man", " War Pigs" and the title track, which was the band's only Top 20 hit, reaching number 4 in the UK charts. Pictures loaded by Graham Young, Birmingham Mail.Paranoid is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in September 1970 through Vertigo Records in England and Warner Bros. The gallery is a partnership between fiends Dave Travis (left), ex rock photographer turned concert promoter and Mission Print founder Gerv Harvill. Havill & Travis at 14 Lonsdale Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9RA. He has run Big Bear Records in Edgbaston for 46 years (to 2014) and founded the 30-year-old Birmingham International Jazz Festival in 1984. Jim was the first manager of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. Also loaded: Jim Simpson at the private launch of Jim Simpson – A Photography Retrospective, an exhibition at Havill & Travis showcasing Jim’s extraordinary collection of photographs from of pop, rock and blues stars from the 1960s. Who is the worlds most famous Brummie? Without doubt, its Ozzy. Whatever, Black Sabbath are THE Birmingham Rock Band. Hendrix, yes, to a limited extent, but that only partly explains it. Their music developed naturally from then and its hard to indentify exactly what directly preceded it. It all started with Geezer Butler who contributed the bands name as well as many of the songs. Makes Led Zeppelin sound like a kindergarten house band. Quite how the Sabs changed from being a perfectly good blues band into the musical phenomenon that we all know and love is shrouded in mystery. In fact, their early publicity claimed, ∻lack Sabbath, the Heaviest Band Around. Strangely, Heavy Metal was not a term used in those days, though Sabbath certainly prided themselves on being heavier than any of their so-called rivals. Jim Simpson says: “If any one band can claim to be the originators of Heavy Metal, then that band is Black Sabbath. One hundred prints have been made at £495 each. The first ever picture taken of Black Sabbath taken in 1968 of Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, on a bank of grass close to Portland Road, Edgbaston. Pictures loaded by Graham Young, Birmingham Mail. So let your spirit float to this one, kids. With the use of the occult and horror-inspired lyrics, and one-of-a-kind 1970s rock ‘n’ roll bohemian swag, we are definitely feeling a brotherhood with this unique quartet!
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