BIG NEWS! It appears the multi-track master tapes for Born Again have been found!! #KeepItWarmRat
If you’ve been following me for any time you’ll remember that when Universal was doing the Deluxe Edition series of CD’s between 2009-2011, they were doing them in order (from Sabbath 1970 through Eternal Idol). However, Born Again was skipped, and done last. The reason for this was because the multi track master tapes were lost. Those were needed in order to do a remix of the album, which everyone in the band wanted to do. In the end, they did a simple remaster of that album vs a full on remix, because the tapes were gone.
Over the years they’ve tried to find them, but apparently this has been done! In this interview with Tony Iommi about the Sabotage Deluxe Edition, he mentions this amongst other things…
I’m also thinking of remixing the album “Born Again”, the one with Ian Gillan, now that we have found the original tapes.
That is AMAZING news. The tapes have been thought lost for nearly 40 years now. It would be seriously spectacular if they could put together a Super Deluxe box for the summer of 2023 for the album’s 40th anniversary. Of course we all want it done tomorrow, but Tony has plenty of other things on his plate.
As much as I love the original mix of Born Again, I would love to hear what they’d do with this.
