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𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: 𝐎𝐳𝐳𝐲'𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐈𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢'𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲, 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬, 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝.𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫: 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 (𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬) 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲!

A crawling music band 'Earth' miraculously managed to survive before the release of their debut album. Their last hope, were parents of band's guitarist, Tony Iommi. As John 'Ozzy' Osbourne recalls:
"Tony's parents were our lifeline. They would give us sandwiches from shop, canned beans, sometimes a pack of Player's Nᴏ. 6 (Britain's best selling cigarette brand for most of the 70s) even money for fuel. The thing is they weren't rich at all, they had a shop in Aston, not Harrods of Knightsbridge! (Harrods of Knightsbridge is an exclusive department stores' in London) I was really fond of Sylvia, Tony's mum. She was a wonderful woman and Tony's dad was great too. He bought and repaired old junks so we could always be travelling in some sort of Van."

Long haired lads didn't even think about intoxicating drinks, because they simply couldn't afford them. The real parties started when their popularity grew a few years later, and of course the profits flowed into the band's account in the form of cash.

So, you can see band's life quality wasn't it. As if that wasn't enough, previously mentioned Tony Iommi joined already well-known Jethro Tull band. Ozzy (vocals, mouth harmonica), William 'Bill' Ward (drums) and Terence 'Geezer' Butler (bass) were genuinely sad, not jealous or angry. They even congratulated their friend.

This happened two months after band were offered a partnership with Big Bear Records - founded in October 1968 by Jim Simpson, man who turned Earth from an obscure Aston blues band into a well-known group.

However, Tony quickly gave up his involvement with Jethro Tull, returning to his friends."I learned quite a lot from [Anderson], I have to admit," - Iommi said. "I learned that you have to work at it. You have to rehearse. When I went back and got [Earth] back together, I made sure everyone got up early in the morning and did rehearsals. I went around and picked them up. I was the only one at the time who could drive. I had to drive the damn van and pick them up at a quarter to nine every morning; which was, believe me, an early time for us in those days. I told them, 'This is how we have to do it, because this is how Jethro Tull did it'."

Afterwards, the band's name had changed, causing much controversy and fear within the audience. 'Black Sabbath' was the title of a badly-made 1963 horror film by Boris Karloff - after which Butler's song was titled, this then evolved into the band's name. 

Also following Butler's song, which is about the devil, Lucifer falling in love with a pure girl, wanting to change for the better, "The Wizard", "N.I.B", "Warning", and other  songs were in the self-titled album (also written by Geezer).
As Ozzy said:
"Geezer was also getting fed up, because he was tired of me asking him for lyrics all the time. I can see how that must have got on his tits after a while, but the guy was a genius. When we were at Morgan Studios, I remember calling him when he was taking a day off at his country house. I said 'C'mon, Geezer, I need some words for "Spiral Architect". He grumbled a bit, told me to call him in an hour, and he put the phone down. When I spoke to him again, he said, 'Have you got a pen? Good. Write this down: "..."

I said, 'Geezer, are you reading this out of a book or something?'
I couldn't believe it. The bloke had written a masterpiece in the time it took me to read one sentence. I told him, 'Keep that up and we'll have the whole bloody album done by five o'clock.'"

It all sounds very charming, doesn't it? It's not like every young band gets the chance for such a promotion. These four chaps from Birmingham were pretty lucky, breaking out of a dirty and sewage-laden past full of unknown. Nobody fully trusted in boys' abilities, thinking they would never make it out of murky Aston.The boys really went for the bet with luck, to get them out of the web of melancholy. How lucky the boys were to find themselves caught up in this delusional paradise.

When actually, a sense of self assuredness is leading them into a tomb.

BLACK SABBATH.... But what if something goes wrong...? Like... Not how everyone would expect it to be?
That something, something worse than anyone would think.

Something that will drive some person to the brink of despondency.

Something that will make him want to go missing, and die.
A flower of pure despair will blossom in his heart, and thorny stems will tighten on his lungs.
He will weep, but no tear will see the daylight.
Crystalline droplets of tears will therefore run down his throat vindictively.
And let the paranoia stifle him.