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 - Greatest Hits - Smooth Sleeve - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.80, €24.00 (New Item) (arrived 01-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
BLACK SABBATH Greatest Hits (1977 UK 10-track vinyl LP featuring a compilation of their classic hits including Paranoid, Changes and Sweet Leaf, smooth picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light storage wear, whilst the vinyl has just a few light surface scuffs NEL6009)
- Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - 2nd - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $161.25, €150.00 (New Item) (arrived 27-Mar-2025 17:00)on April 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (1970 UK second issue 7-track Stereo LP on the Vertigo label with a large 'swirl' logo at the top and Vertigo text below the artist name at the bottom, including the single Evil Woman. The classic Keef designed mattgatefold picture sleeve is printed with the corrected 'Copyright subsists in all Vertigo recordings…' inside and has the band member and production credits all in capital letters, complete with poly-lined swirl inner. A very respectable copyat an advantageous price VO6) See'More Info' for further details ... #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Black Sabbath - Sabotage - UK - picture disc LP - £50.00, $64.50, €60.00 (New Item) (arrived 13-Mar-2025 10:03)on April 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
BLACK SABBATH Sabotage (2003 issue UK strictly limited edition 8-track vinyl PICTURE DISC - originally released in 1975 and includes the rock anthem 'Symptom Of The Universe, housed in a clear PVC sleeve) ** limited to 750 copies worldwide **
- Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - 2nd + Inner - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £85.00, $109.65, €102.00 (New Item) (arrived 13-Mar-2025 10:55)on April 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
BLACK SABBATH Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973 UK second issue 8-track vinyl LP with silver label logo, complete with textured lyric inner, gatefold picture sleeve with the inside image going all the way to the outer edges without a border & the rear stating 'Manufactured and printed in England' with no reference to 'Howards Printers'. This issue is identicle to the first, but has 'Album concept and design: Pacific Eye & Ear...' credit in bold on the reverse of the sleeve WWA005) See'More Info' ...
- Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 - 1st - VG - German - vinyl LP - £35.00, $45.15, €42.00 (New Item) (arrived 13-Mar-2025 11:07)on April 2, 2025 at 2:34 pm
BLACK SABBATH Vol. 4 (Scarce 1972 German first press 10-track LP on the Vertigo large 'swirl' label, housed in the gatefold picture sleeve with 'Printed in Germany by H.O. Persiehl, Hamburg' inside right. The sleeve is Very Good with a thin vertical paper tear inside from where the booklet was removed in the past [not included], unobtrusive to the print & otherwise the cover shows a little shelf wear scuffing. The vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with barely any play)
Is it possible to get a copy (cd or lp) of Black Sabbath Beggars Banquet 1971 on Zodiac (316) ? Just wondering.