Archives for October 2003

Black Sabbath: Never Say Die Book

I have received my copy of the Garry Sharpe Young Book on Sabbath’s turbulent history between 1979-1997. It’s nothing short of phenomenal. I was hoping this period of the band (including the hyper confusing year of 1987) would be covered well, and it is. This book lived up to all my expectations of it. No […]

Changes is Changed

The old Black Sabbath chestnut, “Changes” from the Volume 4 album has been covered by none other than Ozzy’s daughter Kelly. He first solo album was released a year ago or so under the name “Shut Up!”. It’s now been re-released under the name “Changes”. It’s mostly the same album, but with some extra tracks […]

Lost Song Surfaces

I’ve had a gob of emails about this, but I try not to post wild rumours until I can verify that things like this are real. As far as I can tell, it’s real, so here goes… According to this month’s edition of Record Collector magazine, a two-track BLACK SABBATH acetate 45 rpm record was […]

Never Say Die Book

I have a few notices about the Garry Sharpe-Young book, “Black Sabbath: Never Say Die 1979-1997”. First off, I haven’t gotten a copy yet, when I do, expect I’ll have a big review of it online. From what I’ve read of it already, it looks phenomenal. There is already a chapter online over at the […]

Black Box is delayed

This past week I was out of town on vacation, and this email came in during that time. It’s from the record label that is putting out the Black Box set. Here’s what they had to say.. NOTE: DUE TO PRODUCTION DELAYS, BLACK BOX: THE ORIGINAL BLACK SABBATH (1970-1978) PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 4, […]