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I quickly did the lyrics, and Ozzy (Osbourne) was reading them as he was singing.” “Paranoid” is one of the essential songs in a Black Sabbath catalog that has racked up over 75 million ...

Bassist Geezer Butler already had a rough draft of lyrics and the ... destruction and insanity, Black Sabbath laid down a marker as the heaviest band on Earth. Paranoid is arguably the most ...

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath ... up any old lyrics on the spot. Then I’d take over," Butler says, continuing, "There was nothing Satanic about my lyrics on Paranoid; most ...

In the documentary Black Sabbath: Paranoid, guitarist Tony Iommi said ... Osbourne started writing his vocal melody with scratch lyrics. While Osbourne’s initial celestial lyrics helped inspire ...

You can’t be a heavy metal band in 2023 without paying Black Sabbath their dues. While their most-popular cuts—”Paranoid” and ... struggled to sing the lyrics while recording the ...

“Paranoid” ranks among Black Sabbath’s most famous songs ... I scribbled down the lyrics and we wrote and recorded it in about two or three hours.” According to Butler, Osbourne ...

The lyrics ask young people to demand ... which includes much of the "Black Sabbath" album and several songs from "Paranoid," including a still-evolving, killer version of "War Pigs." ...

Geezer Butler, the bassist who cofounded Black Sabbath and wrote the majority of the band’s lyrics on their classic ... stories behind “War Pigs,” “Paranoid,” “Iron Man,” and several ...

There’s an irresistible oomph to Birmingham Royal Ballet’s celebration of Black Sabbath. Saluting Birmingham ... them through whizzing spins for “Paranoid”. It can be overearnest ...

By Lars Brandle More than five decades after its release, Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” joins Spotify’s Billions Club – an elite collection of works that have accumulated more than one ...