From Loudersound.
Black Sabbath‘s Geezer Butler will publish his autobiography Into The Void – From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond in June.
Sabbath’s bassist, co-founder and chief lyricist announced that he working on a memoir in 2021, telling Cleveland.com, “when my parents died, I always wished I’d asked them a lot more things than I knew about… So, I started writing a memoir for my grandkids to read, and that’s been fun going through stuff – old times and growing up in Birmingham and all that.”
The book has now been given a publication date, June 8, by publishers HarperCollins. Announcing the title, HarperCollins say: “With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time. From the very beginning, Geezer Butler was at the heart of their success. He named the group, provided the bass behind their distinctive sound and wrote the lyrics that resonated so powerfully with fans around the world.
At long last, Geezer is ready to tell his side of the Sabbath story, from early days as a scrappy blues quartet through to the many lineup changes, the record-breaking tours and the international hell-raising with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward.
Featuring Geezer’s candid reflections on his working-class childhood in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant and his fascination with horror, religion and the occult, Into the Void reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend, while holding nothing back.
Like Geezer’s bass lines and the story of Black Sabbath themselves, Into the Void is original, dramatic and one hell of a ride.”
Into the Void will be the third memoir written by a member of Black Sabbath’s classic line-up: original line-up. Ozzy Osbourne’s I Am Ozzy was published in 2009, and Tony Iommi’s Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath was published in 2011.
Into The Void is now available to pre-order.
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- Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Japanese - 7" vinyl - £50.00, $65.00, €59.50 (New Item) (arrived 02-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid (Scarce 1980 Japanese issue wide centred 7" vinyl single, also including Snow Blind and released on the 10th anniversary to coincide with the Japan tour of that year. Complete with original double-sided insert that has aprinted 'Obi Effect' front and lyrics in Japanese & English on the reverse. The sleeve displays only a little light wear and the vinyl looks barely played SP06-5)
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid - UK - 12" vinyl - £20.00, $26.00, €23.80 (New Item) (arrived 01-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid (Limited Edition 1986 UK 4-track 12" EP in Castle's Archive4 series, also including Iron Man, Black Sabbath plus a live version of War Pigs. The delicate picture sleeve shows a faint spot of ring wear & the vinyl appears barely played. Limited to 5000 copies only TOF101)
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 180gm - Italian - vinyl LP - £50.00, $65.00, €59.50 (New Item) (arrived 01-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid (2003 Italian limited edition 8-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL, originally released in 1970. Housed in a glossy gatefold jacket inside a clear PVC sleeve with a red sticker on front and Earmark logo embossed on back along with a black thick card inner sleeve with a transparent die-cut plastic sleeve inside. Both sleeve and vinyl presented in 'Excellent'condition) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $65.00, €59.50 (New Item) (arrived 01-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (UK Limited Edition re-issue 180g vinyl 7-track LP of the superb debut that paved the way for Heavy Metal! including the doom laden title track and infamous N.I.B, housed in a limited edition classic re-issue with sanctuary logo sticker, gatefold picture sleeve with the much documented upside down cross image inside with picture record labels, stunning heavyweight vinyl copy of a landmark album! CHMLP116) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Black Sabbath - Attention! Black Sabbath Volume One - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $32.50, €29.75 (New Item) (arrived 01-Nov-2024 18:00)on November 4, 2024 at 4:58 pm
BLACK SABBATH Attention! Black Sabbath Volume One (1974 UK 8-track vinyl LP compilation, including Paranoid and N.I.B. Unique red bordered picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little wear with some ringwear, and the vinyl shows just light signs of play WWA100)
Is it possible to get a copy (cd or lp) of Black Sabbath Beggars Banquet 1971 on Zodiac (316) ? Just wondering.