Black Sabbath - Born Again

Today (August 7th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of UK release of Born Again, the eleventh studio album from British heavy metal band Black Sabbath; it would be released in the US on October 4th of 1983. Although panned by critics, it charted at number 44 in New Zealand, number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 37 in Germany, number 14 in Norway, number 7 in Sweden, and number 4 in the UK.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Welcome to another edition of Seventies Saturday. Today (December 3rd) also marks the sixty-third birthday of singer John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne.

Before he was portrayed as a mumbling father on a MTV reality show, Osbourne was one of the founding members of the heavy metal rock band Black Sabbath in the late 1960’s. In 1970, they released their first studio album to much success. They followed it up later that year with Paranoid which went to number 1 on the UK album charts and number 12 on the US Billboard 200 charts. The album was ranked number 130 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.