Biography: Black Sabbath (2010), documentary with finnish subtitles.

[Music] they were just four poor lads from birmingham who changed the face of rock and roll there wasn't anything like it before then black sabbath was like wow [Music] i mean as you walk on stage in this little club and you riveted to that guy on stage they were that devil worshiping band and ozzy and company are still down playing that to this day we've discovered this stuff back then called cocaine i mean literally a fruit bowl piled up high with cocaine great drugs great thing great everything everything was excess i crossed over a line where there was no coming back they were in a den of vipers they couldn't get out [Music] black sabbath hit the charts in 1970 with a new brand of heavy rock swirling with occult imagery but their dark content led to something they never expected some feared them as satanists and we never ever said that we were into satan or anything like that it wasn't what the band was about at all not at all i had no idea people actually practiced that kind of stuff so i thought it was just a goof you know well back then the imagery was the only thing that you had to connect that artist so nobody knew that these guys didn't worship the devil and were just you know dark satan lovers that first impression would prove difficult to shake when we went on tour it was it was very strange because people were very frightened of us they wouldn't come backstage or anything they were frightened to meet us you know the band had somehow managed to offend people holding completely opposite views devil worshipers were disappointed that black sabbath wasn't the real thing and people of traditional faith took to the streets in protest weird people that were actually very very dangerous they wanted to make sure that we didn't live another day march 1st 1971 two weeks into their second u.s tour halfway through a memphis show the anger boiled over one guy got on stage one to the big dagger and he was going to assassinate tony and he got past security and everything and i never even seen him tony sort of turned round and walked off stage as this guy was running after him i just did this scuffle behind me and they got him to the floor and he was some religious chap we got to the dressing room there was this big inverted cross in blood on the dressing room door that this guy had slashed his wrist and sprayed all his blood all over the door we had several attacks or potential attacks on us it became something of a normal thing you know black magic no way they were just really good guys and all they wanted to do was work and play music that's all they wanted it had all started so innocently for black sabbath there were four boys from birmingham england with a big dream and if ever a city could produce the godfathers of heavy metal it was this grim working-class town which still bore the scars of german bombings years after world war ii well ozzie and tony had gone to school with each other i never used to hang around with these guys at school i was in a different level so i live in class ozzie was more of a bit of a nuisance in the way it was like fighting all the time they're always fighting but there was a reason for his manic behavior i was incredibly dyslexic i still am being very very dyslexic i don't suffer from attention deficit disorder so those and i didn't realize what that was in them days all four came from working-class families ozzie's circumstances were the most extreme my mother and my father and the six of us lived in a two-bedroom house it's a whole different culture where they were raised i mean no money we never had a car we never went on holiday that's all we knew so we didn't know anything different you know and we talked in america about having no money and i had it hard and i lived in a trailer but your trailer had a toilet and a bathroom in and you had clean clothes to put on i know that aussie didn't the landscape was a violent landscape we had the irish republican army bombing us all the time buildings would blow up you know that was part of being in birmingham that whole area of the midlands is a very working-class area you know what i mean people are hard there's a lot of attitude and a lot of the great heavy darker music has come from that place in england i don't think they call it the black country for no reason i mean a lot of england is tough when people make fun of oh the british is like really don't do that in britain because some guy will come over there and tear your head off if life in birmingham was bleak prospects for a decent future were even bleaker if they could get a job it was a very difficult job and it was you know they were dangerous jobs and that was if you could get one we all sort of knew that we weren't cut out for a nine to five job or work in a factory or in an office but there was one way out i mean a lot of young people started bands in england because it was that or go on the dole which is unemployment it was literally a make or break for life it was what else am i gonna do as young teens all four took that chance and gave music a shot bill and tony were the first in i met bill through um an advert in a shop they asked what sort of equipment i got didn't matter how i played just more you got you know at 17 tony played with a band who landed a tour he quit his day job but on his very last day fate stepped in to change his life forever as i'm pushing the the metal through into this machine it just came down like that on my finger bang and i pulled my arm back and as i pulled it back i pulled the ends off the fingers i went to a couple of different doctors and they said you know your guitar playing has ended sort of thing and i was absolutely devastated so i thought i wonder if i make some tips some kind of something on my finger after experimenting with several different materials he found that a simple plastic dish soap bottle did the trick and he made his own tips of his fingers out of washing up bottles because he couldn't hold down heavier strings he figured out a way to use the lightest possible strings and put them at a different length from the fretboard and in doing that he created a completely original style that didn't sound like anybody reducing string tension also lowered the pitch this gave his guitar a deeper darker sound after almost a year-long recuperation tony felt ready to play again he and his friend bill looked for new bandmates and we were looking for a singer and we saw this sign saying aussie zigg requires gig i thought well i can't remember ozzy osbourne nobody knows ozzy zig needs kind of rhymed you know and i said i know an aussie but it can't be him because he he can't sing as far as i knew and lo and behold he must have done something because tony army and bill wood to turn up to our house and giza butler did as well ozzy and tony put aside their old schoolyard antagonisms for a larger goal if they could make it in music they might be able to escape birmingham's factories but they'd soon find out that band life wasn't all fun and games by the summer of 1968 the four young men who would become black sabbath had formed a band but they were not called black sabbath yet after trying several names they settled on earth tony naomi bill ward geezer butler and singer ozzy osbourne began their musical journey playing rock classics like so many other bands we all played a little bit of chuck berry a little bit of 12 bar blues body only stuff i think so their jam sessions produced the bluesy numbers local club owners wanted but the gigs they managed to get didn't pay very well we used to do gigs basically just for the petrol money really to put in the van and we might have a few pence left over to buy fish and chips or chips you know buying ozzy's first pair of shoes yeah he didn't even know shoes man i remember one time we found a 10p piece which is like 25 cents and we could get french fries for each other or a packet of cigarettes so we went for the back of the cigarettes and that was it earlier we just done it because we love doing it i can remember nights when we hadn't eaten that when we were actually sick we all had colds and we'd drag ourselves onto the stage and we would go on and we would play like there wasn't even a problem in the world and i just watched this and i thought my god what a band they played several times at a local club owned by jim simpson simpson who also managed bands liked what he heard and added earth to his roster of blues and jazz groups he booked them in clubs throughout europe i played every gig i could get them in the early years that's what bands did you know you learnt your craft by performing on the road and these gigs made you work i mean we had to play like eight shows a day we used to play like from two in the morning till two in the morning or i mean i'm like going there without no voice i've been singing all day they came back exhausted fingers bleeding and unable to speak and in the end it's just like okay you're on we could have done it in our sleep we were doing it in our sleep their year of musical boot camp was paying off but there was one problem they still had to deal with i think we were called earth for about a year and then this one gig we got we turned up there and um pulled the van up and there's this guy outside with a bow tie on his suit oh god there's all these older people and they all had dresses and suits and ties and everything on i thought bladdy and what's going on here because we were really scruffy we just thought this is a weird crowd for us he said i really like your um single i know thanks i mean we hadn't done a record at that point we hadn't done anything i'm excited playing all this a lot of blues stuff and the guy came up and said what are you doing why aren't you playing your regular stuff moving what do you mean regular stuff and it so happened that there was another band called earth oh no he said well you know you're gonna have to play now because you're the only band here so we went on and we died at death i mean we played probably two songs and i threw up there we had to get off while the four struggled to come up with the perfect name they also continued to experiment with a different musical approach slower darker songs that went against the flower power sound of the peace and love generation and their lyrics began reflecting tony's interest in horror films and geezers passion for occult novels what i remember happening was we used to rehearse across the road from a movie theater i believe it was tiny says isn't it strange that people go to to movies and pay money to be scared why don't we start writing scary music [Music] that made the the template for where we were going because as soon as we done that song that was it you know we knew exactly where we were going it was almost the final piece of the jigsaw we knew we were going somewhere musically it was going the right direction we hadn't got a name then one day giza cheekily poked his face around my dining room door and said i got it my brother's saying uh the film black sabbath i think it was in 1966 or something and i just love the gnome [Music] so now all the pieces were in place a distinct sound original songs and a provocative name black sabbath manager jim simpson borrowed 500 pounds so the band could record a demo tape well actually the recording was a day and then they mixed it the next day and we got the gear and set up recorded these songs in 12 hours for us to go in the studio was just like doing a show simpson visited several labels hoping to score a record deal i actually went around 14 major recoveries i got 14 straight notes they weren't familiar with that but nobody was familiar with our music really go to the billboard top 40 and see what was passing for radio in that time see the environment that black sabbath had to deal with and then to hear sabbath it was like whoa what is that well you've got to put yourself back in this period of time i mean and they were trying to sell love peace and bells and players some particular songs were maddening actually some of the songs from america where everything was totally cool and okay and you know even though the vietnam war was raging at that point instead of if you go to san francisco and then also when we come out with this heavy what exists that stands before me line it was such a different vibe for the time because we didn't see that we didn't see all the love and peace it was all violence there was a progressive label we were under the category of progressive music whatever that means i was just different music or something and jim cameron says don't want to do a deal with it and we were like what [Music] [Applause] in december 1969 after two years together black sabbath signed with vertigo records two months later the label released their demo tape as is on friday the 13th 1970 black sabbath self-titled debut was about to get a reception that nobody in their wildest dreams would have expected by 1970 after two years of playing clubs throughout europe black sabbath developed a unique sound while building a fan base with each appearance they had all the keys to the black sabbath mystique firmly in place macabre lyrics ominous sounding guitars and a devilishly compelling name their self-titled debut album was released on friday the 13th 1970. hyping the bands occult edge their record company had added an inverted cross to the album art we didn't see the record slave until the week it came out they didn't consult if they had consulted with us we wouldn't have had the inverted cross on the first album we liked the front cover but we didn't like the inverted cross especially me excited to take it home show me parents and that went absolutely mental but that hardly dampened the band's excitement he came when i was like i'm on the radio mom mom i'm on the radio within a month the album shot up to number eight on the uk album chart even their label was surprised it went so far so fast that first album i think is a really important musical document man tony aiomi is just one of the great metal architects obviously he didn't copy anybody's sound because i never heard a guitar like that before tony's guitar riffs the basic building blocks of melody lines hooked listeners as much as the lyrics they started the whole ref thing you know clean up with licks instead of just strumming a guitar it wasn't your typical songs with a chorus then there was ozzy osbourne with his anguished howl of a voice [Music] and rousing on stage personality aussies had so much charisma see you know i mean i was in walk on stage in this little club with two people in the dog there and you riveted to that guy on stage when he walks out everything about him is so genuine he's not a part-time rock and roller bill's hard-driving backbeats and geezers sledgehammer basslines were also integral to the black sabbath sound bill ward is an uncanny percussionist he plays behind the beat bill ward man it's like the drummer on the muppets i'm an orchestrational drummer i bring images to the music and geezer butler is one of the best if under mentioned bass players anywhere anytime kizer was a great bass player but i think even more of his contribution was his lyrics if it's a love song it's a downer love song the guy loses the girl songs about war you know of religion gone wrong i mean i put them up with a lot of bob dylan's protest songs at the [Music] time within a few months black sabbath went platinum eager to capitalize on this success the label had the band quickly record a follow-up album tentatively titled war picks but producer roger bain felt the album needed one more track roger bone said we need three or four minutes to finish the album jam something so like in not so many minutes later we've done the song tiny come with a riff [Music] i'd come up with a melody line cuz give me the riffs and bill would come with the drum preparation and it was just spell at the moment [Music] the song paranoid the record label scrapped the title war pigs they'd found the album's name the first black sabbath song that i heard was paranoid and i thought it was cool because it was dealing with this dark subject of losing your mind and losing control of your mind [Music] i still think it's almost powerful two and a half minute songs in the history of rock and roll it's unforgettable [Music] tony and his ribs would go they don't know why he can beat that there's no way under the sun he can beat that riff and sure enough next time we come on i need everyone bigger and better [Music] i mean you can't make a heavier song than that he's the king is the absolute rift king [Music] iron man was the ultimate anthem for disenfranchised youth around american all over the world he seeks revenge he he goes back to the people who shunned him and he wipes them out and that's every ninth grader in the subconscious of many young males around the world iron man became that kind of anthem you lived through that fantasy back in those days no one's writing a hard rock song with some get back in and there's a lot of people in the world who didn't get invited to the party and didn't date the cheerleader [Music] the album paranoid hit number one on the uk charts and number 12 in the states proving that black sabbath's heavy music resonated with rock fans but the rock press felt very differently critics i don't think ever got black sabbath especially in the first couple of albums they hated those records they took every opportunity they could to take a shot at them and take a stab at them one star reviews people just saying like burn this they they didn't like us the press didn't like us like for the good of music just get rid of this band i think i kind of stopped reading reviews because i knew how hard we'd worked so yeah it hurt me it is disappointing but you know it it's got to be like that you're going to have people who don't like it we had a lot of people that didn't like it despite critical pants their third album 1971's master of reality was their biggest hit yet in less than two years they moved four million albums and singles a larger management firm lured the band away from jim simpson persuading them that he was simply out of his league guided by this new organization the band commanded up to two hundred thousand dollars for a major concert black sabbath was nothing short of a phenomenon one day we had absolutely nothing to next day we had like money we could buy cigarettes in the middle of the week we could buy a beer and then when we got to america it was like you know it was the epitome of what one would call sex drugs and rock and roll women over over in america in those days would just tell you what they wanted to do not in england you'd go kind of take you out you take it out buy a box of chocolate and all the rest of it and eventually pop the questions i'm a veggie you know but in america it was like the boys had arrived in playtown you know and we started to delve into uh narcotics we discovered this stuff back then called cocaine and we started to get large amounts of that sent round and boozed partner because we were rock stars you know we were on top of the world and uh we were coming in to make a fourth album we'd hired this big house in bel air crammed it with groupies and all the drugs you could ever wish to get up your nose the original title of the album what wasn't volume for it we're going to call it snow blind but the record covenant says no way if you look on this sleeve he's got we'd like to thank the great american coke cola company it was a great time to be in the music industry because it was great music great live performances great drugs great great everything everything was excess and it was fantastic i'm in the house one day and there's a big bowl of pass on the table we had a big bowl of cocaine i mean literally a fruit bowl and it was piled at high with cocaine like this on the middle of the table it's really really hot one day and pushes button on the wall thinking it's the air conditioner and it wasn't it was the alarm for the bel-air patrol and all these cop cars can scream i'm going we're busted man so i'm running to the bathroom i'm trying to get rid of it all i mean like we're all getting all the drugs off and slinging it down the toilet and trying to flush it all my heart was jumping out my chest and i thought we were busted you know they didn't search us or anything so we just like thrown away about 20 grams worth of cocaine whether or not the drugs were to blame in 1973 tony experienced writer's block for the first time while preparing the next album sabbath bloody sabbath for a change of scene they returned to the uk and set up in a neo-gothic castle we're rehearsed in the dungeons there one thing i do know we should goof around and try and frighten each other the room bill was in supposedly every now and again this figure comes through and jumps out the window so bill's in this room i got this um fishing line they actually had fishing line that went down through the window and dropped down into the courtyard so when i sat in my bed i was scraping the picture across so it looked like the picture was moving and i'm gonna go who's that what's that and and then the curtains that move you know just silly jokes really even though they lived really far away from this castle bill ended up commuting because he was so uncomfortable staying in this place where he thought there was a ghost before he left he slept with a dagger every night so bill what are you going to do with that well you never know you know they're like that dead bill you know the experience at the castle recharged the band's creative engine and critics took note of sabbath bloody sabbath's more complex sound for the first time the band got positive reviews but management struggles overshadowed the good news first former manager jim simpson sued the band for wrongful termination then they discovered their current managers engaged in questionable accounting practices they were prime examples of what went on in the music industry in the early 70s where it was very rare that the bands actually got any money i for one didn't join a band to become an accountant or a lawyer or understand i never under i still do this i don't understand contracts they were in a den of vipers they couldn't get out the lawyers the accountants the record companies everyone was a thief so the band got destroyed by people's greed at one 1974 california festival their fee was 250 000 yet each member received only a thousand dollars the group sued the managers brought their own counter suits and froze the band's assets black sabbath had to tour constantly just to pay legal fees the grueling relentless schedule would take a heavy toll and aussie didn't turn up for like six weeks [Music] by the mid-seventies black sabbath had several multi-platinum albums to their credit but all was not well with the band beset by lawsuits debt and management issues black sabbath had to tour relentlessly just to pay legal fees at that time we'd been fighting everybody we'd go on the road to pay the lawyers i mean the whole magic was getting polluted with legal ramblings you know other issues caused more friction i know that individual tastes were becoming from each member were becoming stronger and wanted attention they'd be in the studio and then one wouldn't like what the other one had done and they wouldn't like the other one done i always liked the rawness of the early sabbath stuff and then we sort of got into a thing where we just did tons of overdubs on this and that and it just became a clash of personalities really cerebral bloody cells in my opinion was the end of the black sabbath thing tony was wanting to move in a different direction and that was not necessarily ozzie's direction giza would say we've got to get hit songs we've got to do this we've got to change we weren't into what we were about anymore you know against this tumultuous backdrop they were expected to go on a whirlwind 10th anniversary tour the 1978 outing was especially challenging the schedule forced them to ping pong back and forth across europe and america playing over 100 dates in six months the band relied on drugs and alcohol to help get through the intense schedule at first i think that the drugs were good at the time when what we all did you know but later on i think it it caused more harm than good you know it was getting worse and of course the odd part and i keep seeing then when you start getting on some of that stuff i crossed over a line where there was no coming back what happened was alcohol and narcotics became more important than anything and that included black sabbath they were guys not treating themselves as well as they should have and ozzie was having some real problems just dealing just like getting to the stage at night i mean i've been kicking doors off hotel rooms to get them out of bed i mean physically kicking the door down and paying the damage because it was cheaper than missing a flight and cancelling the gig we found ozzie prone in a couple of hotels lined in the corridor with people who'd rather abandoned him because he never got up again it just went out of control totally out of control by this time they'd sold close to 20 million records worldwide but after eight albums and 10 years together black sabbath was coming apart at the seams a lot of it came on the never say die tour i think van halen was supporting us it was our first tour it was 1978. we were doing anything and everything we ever read about and then some and if you listen to the bootlegs of that tour all the songs are kind of done at 78 speed i mean it sounds like the tape's going too fast but they were coked and to make matters worse the band was clearly losing commercial traction sales of their last three albums failed to reach the levels of their previous five now the record label was putting its promotional muscle behind their opening act the rising young hard rock stars van halen for black sabbath the pressure was on we were kind of a double-edged sword to them i guess because we forced them to have to rise to the occasion so to speak to follow us warner brothers were losing interestingness as well they were putting all his money into van gaal and completely ignored us yeah and the record company didn't give us a good damn for us warner brothers had this party for us for nev when never said i was coming out when we got to the party nobody knew who we are they weren't going to let us in at first and we got in and they're playing bob marley because nobody likes sabbath the band's morale was at an all-time low and just when it seemed things could not possibly get worse they did it was november 1978 in nashville and ozzie was simply burnt out i'd been on a run for about three or four days you know i ended up sleeping and um 6 30 in the morning we got to this nashville place and the hotel he was so dinged out that we left the last city and he had the key of the last hotel in his hand so i put my hand out and pulled the kid and it was the wrong key and i go to the wrong floor and he's like half asleep walking around you know and as i'm going to these oh look at the number on this keyring it's got whatever it was and then my just coming out oh go in lie on the bed next minute i know i'm not woke up and i'm going wow that's a good cube so we were supposed to do sound check and nobody could find them finally around all the rooms come on boys get downstairs but then no i see i went out rooking out all around the bars couldn't find him anywhere so the police were looking for him because they thought somebody had kidnapped him i'm sorry we had to cancel the show you know my phone albert and talbot goes inside at me and i think where the hell are you i'm in my room what are you doing where are you we had to please the pep beyond everybody you know he was a slap i don't know at least 18 hours because he missed the whole day thousands of furious fans trashed the concert hall the other band members were exasperated having to cancel the show but relieved that no harm had come to ozzie and of course the next album after never say die was when it when it just all fell to pieces ozzy just wasn't into it anymore it was really bad on drugs and booze at the time when we finally went over to record the album ozzie didn't turn up for like six weeks and when he did turn up he just came into the house and he was out of his brains so i thought oh god my alcohol and drug abusers but we're all i wasn't the only one we were all doing it you know but i suppose i'd go hit the floor before everybody else we'd be jamming away and he just wasn't interested at all so you know it just had to happen you know we knew that something had to drastically change within the band it got to a point where the band was going to say well that's it let's just break up then or we'll get somebody else and carry on for more than a decade ozzy osbourne had been the front man for black sabbath but the others had decided enough was enough it wasn't my decision it was they all gazed on myself it was like the most unbelievable thing at first it was like because you know because of how we were towards each other and how we felt towards each other this is awful i mean it was an awful thing because we've been together a lot of years at that point so i volunteered to talk to us and let him know the truth about what was going on he was lying down at the time and looked square on at me he says you kidding that says no no kidding and then the rest is kind of private we were all upset i mean we were all crying and you know when it happened because none of us wanted it to happen it's just one of those things that had to happen i remember thinking that's it it's over you know i'm not thinking of donnie sculler it's a very sad part black sabbath was the best thing that ever happened to me until that point when a group of them set one aside you can imagine how that one felt and aussie was like now he was on his own he'd never been on his own he was broke on his own and scared after 11 years of hard rocking and hard living black sabbath had become one of the biggest names in rock but drugs endless touring management disputes and creative differences had finally taken their toll in 1979 tony aiomi geezer butler and bill ward decided that ozzy osbourne was no longer holding up his end they saw no other choice but to part ways with their lead singer even though he was wildly popular with fans it was tough because here we are bringing in a new singer we wanted somebody who would fit in and somebody that would nobody's going to go oh he sounds just like ozzy you know veteran rock manager don arden had been brought in to work with the group his daughter sharon was part of the management team they didn't want aussie and they had no singer so i said listen to ronnie dear he's you know he's got a great voice american-born singer ronnie james dio was a star in his own right having fronted another popular hard rock group rainbow so by bringing ronnie in it launches again and it's a challenging and it really made us work and they made an album called heaven and hell which to me is one of the most together rock albums i have ever heard technically he's a much better singer than ozzy he could do a lot more it was good he has that range that high voice for that genre music in my mind every record that dio did with sabbath to me they're necessary listening it was difficult for ronnie to have to go out in front of people and you know when we started touring because here he is taking over from aussie it was a difficult task you know really difficult and i thought ronnie done such a great job of doing it when ozzy osbourne left black sabbath i don't think anybody expected that the band would survive and even more so anybody who knew anything about ozzy osbourne probably had little reason to expect that he would ever continue on as a solo artist he was near death ozzy then the long period he sat in the hotel room and never came out he was afraid to go out the door because he he was just so emotionally beaten aussie just couldn't see he just lost everything in himself we all had problems that's why none of us could sort of help him because we all had our own problems at the time sharon arden saw ozzie's potential as a solo artist shannon came around one day and she said you know what you straighten yourself up and we want to manage you i thought what's going on what can i do we said to him if you you know pull yourself together come on let's get your confidence back and you can do it you can do it on your own and sharon completely saved his life after being holed up for three months sharon knew ozzy had to take baby steps at first i wanted him to take pride in himself and i think it starts from taking a shower every day to washing your hair to putting on some new clothes with ozzie feeling better about himself the search began for a backing band ozzy teamed up with guitar virtuoso randy rhodes and returned to creating over-the-top hard rock laced with his trademark dark imagery the result a string of platinum selling albums the chemistry of ozzy osbourne and randy rhodes is a great band right there those two guys together created some incredible music that actually held up to black sabbath which is really difficult to do i think the prince of darkness thing was something he played around with but the press ran with it and you see on the on the solo album's dive with madman and all that he's got the makeup going the werewolf thing you know bark at the moon with the fangs taped into you know glued into his mouth he's kind of going along with it he's a smart guy and he's been through a lot and uh he's an absolute character and the world needs characters and rock and roll needs characters i've been applauding him all the way because we've always stayed in touch we've never been away from each other so when he brought out his first record i mean i can remember where we were i was came up with blizz device and he was like here he's you know and he came in it's like yeah over the three years since they had parted company black sabbath and ozzie had each succeeded on their own then in 1982 old wounds reopened when both camps released live albums within days of each other there was a grim reason for ozzie's live effort his guitarist randy rhodes was killed in an airplane crash leaving ozzie in a difficult situation what happened with me was i'd done a live album with randy rhodes and then we were contractually obliged to deliver a live album and then randy got killed no one i don't want to put that live album around you know rose so soon after his death and it's just bad taste you know and i said well we got to do a live album so i said somebody said i made a suggestion to go and do sabbath stuff in an live album that's what i did yeah that was a bit disappointing for us to hear somebody else playing those songs you know with aussie it was a bit uh insane to me it wasn't pre-planned it wasn't a vicious stab in the back to them trying to ruin their record it hand on heart it wasn't i don't even play the old man i don't wanna it's just it's not me or my help it's me trying to cup sabbath or not that was the only thing i could do for the time you know i had no idea what they were doing they didn't have any idea what ours but it came out and then it was of course another stab in the back for all of the guys that started it all off again you know and sabbath's live album caused its own set of problems within the band ronnie james dio believed his vocals were not prominent enough in the mix in the end they could not resolve their differences and deal quit for the next album the band brought in former deep purple front man ian gillian ian was a great heavy rock singer came from the same background it seemed to work on paper and they like the album was good but it just wasn't black sabbath through the 1980s sabbath saw many personnel changes including the return of ronnie james dio at times guitarist tony naomi was the only original member but one historic music event would change that throughout the early 80s black sabbath and their former front man ozzy osbourne successfully charted their own courses through the music world more than five years had passed since their traumatic 1979 tour the last time that the original members of black sabbath had appeared on stage together and fans had no reason to believe that they'd reunite anytime soon but then in 1985 singer bob geldof began organizing a music event for famine relief geldof approached some of the biggest names in rock to reunite including led zeppelin and crosby stills and nash also on his list black sabbath the offer they couldn't refuse live aid one of the largest scale live television broadcasts of all time we haven't seen each other for quite a while so i got to philadelphia to start rehearsals and it was great you know we were talking of old times we didn't we forgot to rehearse we were all talking then i was very pleased to see each other and everything and just reversed probably for about five minutes and not long at all it was as if they had never been apart forgotten were whatever issues that had separated them they were back in their old groove i didn't particularly like the time we went on which was 10 o'clock in the morning and i had a seriously bad hangover so i put dark glasses on you know to do this show i was completely out of shape i was horribly out of shape but i learned how to be on stage sober and we've done like three songs and that was it and we never saw each other then for ages [Music] everybody thought then that all the rumors were going to go around that we were going to get back together again of course we didn't there would be times over the years when one saab would turn up on another's tour or album by the mid-90s though they realized that the bond between all four was too strong to ignore i always say they've got an invisible thread that holds them all together this is my departure from black sabbath i've played those songs with great musicians and great lineups and whatever but there ain't nobody plays it like the four of us it's ozzie who gets the best out of wyoming it's giza that gets the best out of bill it's bill that gets the best out of geezer it was one of those things that i didn't have to look back and go what's he doing or what was he doing when we locked in it was like a machine there's obviously some sort of link between them all the time that was going on because they got back together and it was just like they'd never been apart you know recording on their own gave them the creative freedom they needed but playing together was one of their greatest joys over the years the band would occasionally reunite the original black sabbath even headlined several oz fests the music festival created by ozzie and sharon to showcase metal artists the most eagerly awaited reunion was the tour that brought the four original savs back to where it all began their hometown birmingham england in november 1997 18 000 fans from all over the world converged on the city to witness the historic event it was just fantastic to for me to be with them guys in our hometown birmingham at the national exhibition center was awesome it was magical it was an unbelievable feeling to be there when they open with war pigs and it's just like having a truck dropped on your [Applause] head it just seems to me that whatever goes on privately with them once they're on stage it all goes away i interviewed ozzie after the second night and i said andy said one of the best nights of my life [Music] i just had a blast it's one of the most wonderful things that's happened to me in the last 10 years i love them all i mean i'm not going to see a slugging i know because we've got our ups and downs over the earth it's so white you know that's what life's all about i love them all i absolutely love them guys after over 40 years and 50 million albums sold fans love for black sabbath has not diminished with the passing of time sabbath will have an unlimited shelf life the next generation the dad will go son it's your turn and the next kid will go oh yeah that's what i'm talking about when you think of reggae if you think of one artist it's bob marley he symbolizes reggae but he transcends it johnny cash is like that with country and black sabbath is like that with heavy metal i was that was funny that they they called le zaplum heavy metal yeah after stuff was acoustic they started heavy metal that's not up for debate everybody from nirvana and pearl jam to the red hot chili peppers everybody has had an influence from sabbath you would find punk rockers who are only into punk rock but they got time for seven rock and roll today wouldn't exist without them when you're in the middle of something you don't know and you don't know how big it really really is we had a big impact on the industry we had a major impact but it's only now though i appreciate that i mean they are responsible for something that has moved hundreds of millions of records not just their own but everyone else's you know their legacy which they leave is is in those albums it's there in the music and it's something that will never go away it stands the test of time every decade they say it's over it's over it'll never be over it's really weird we're going on stage and we're older and then you look out and it's like a picture of dorian gray or something's like the audience is still the same age and looks exactly the same as when we started in 1968 [Music] you

Channel: Toni Hakala

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Keywords: Black Sabbath, documentary, dokumentti, suomenkielinen tekstitys, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, heavy metal

Id: fmlY1DKAi6w

Length: 45min 7sec (2707 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021