![]() ![]() “Tony said, ‘Isn’t it weird – people pay money to see horror films and get scared. “We rehearsed across the road from a movie theatre which used to show horror films,” recalled Ozzy. ![]() Growing from blues roots, Black Sabbath forged a sound around Iommi’s blackened riffs, Osbourne’s post-Lennon wail, and the tightly-locked interplay of Ward and Butler, the bassist penning lyrics that drew on reality as much as on his initial interest in spirituality and the band’s developing fright-night aesthetic. “I tried beads and a kaftan but they looked shit on me,” remarked Osbourne several decades after the band’s inception in Aston, Birmingham, in 1968. If the prevalent mood of the mid-’60s was one of peace, love and optimism no one told the four-piece of frontman Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. No band sounded the death knell of hippy-dom as gloriously as Black Sabbath. ![]()
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