Biography
Inlack Sabbath - part of the "Hard-Rock's big three" (along with LED Zeppelin and Deep Purple), the favorite brainchild "Prince Darkness" Ozzy Osborne. On the patriarchs of the rock scene for almost half a century, followers of Hevi-metal were prayed. Despite the hourly entourage and color of the musicians themselves, the songs of the Black Sabbath will always sound young and life-affirmingly, such is their harmonic nature, RBC noted.Compound
British rock band BLACK SABBATH is formed by four friends from Birmingham. The future soloist John Michael Osborne studied in different classes, but in the same school with the "Heavy Metal Father" by Frank Anthony Ayommi (he, Tony Aymemi) and the bassist Terens Michael Joseph Butler, who was called Gizer for brevity. Drummer William (Bill) Thomas Ward played in the same group with Tony, Ozzy and Batler had his own team.
Guys first hung the names and genres of executable music. The new association was initially associated with the Women's Female Band's Women's Pooge, then the name was reduced to the first two words, and then changed at all on Earth. In order not to enter into a conflict with the same existing team, the group, by the time the song "Black Sabbath" has stopped on this phrase.
The "great and terrible" Osborne expelled from the group in the late 70s. According to the guitarist Tony Aiomami, the musicians "took the drugs, cocaine, in general, much, but Ozzy still continuously saw." Soloch's solo career was more than successful, but in an interview with Billboard Ozzy said he was ready to return to the Black Sabbath in the first call. And then the manager brought Ronnie James Dio in his place.
Later, Gizer returned and returned again. Ward, heavily worried about the death of his parents and constantly staying in alcohol fumes, in the 1980s was dismissed. His briefly replaced Winnie Eps. The drummer left the group 4 more times.
Jan Gillan and Tony Martin, Glenn Hughes and Brian Mei, Rob Halford and Biv Beiven visited the ranks of Black Sabbath. In 2011, the participants of the golden composition of Ozzy Osborne, Tony Ayami, Gizer Butler and Bill Ward announced the reunion of the group and began joint rehearsals.
Jeff Nichols, guitarist, keyboard player and songwriter who gave Black Sabbath 25 years of life, in January 2017 he died from lung cancer.
Music
According to the legend, the idea of afraid of otherworldly worlds, delusional visions and any evil came Iiomy. Tony found that if people like horror films, then you should try to sing "horror strokes". By the way, the battlers of the Batler of religion, philosophy and fiction, who found in verse.
The first single "Evil Woman" did not attract attention. The album published in a month called "Black Sabbath" immediately hit all sorts of charts. The group went with concerts in Europe. The material assembled on touring was enough to record the "Paranoid" record in the week.
Gradually began to develop the shocking unusual viewers of the image of the participants (which was worth the water tap as necklace on the neck of Osborne) and the recognizable Sabbatov style: even by the fulfillment of ballads, the musicians avoided love lyrics and expressing other elevated and gentle feelings.
The middle of the 70s is the peak period of the popularity of Black Sabbath. The group pleases the new disc every year, and the albums beat all the sales records. However, the race for recognition and commercial success affects the health of the performers: everything except Ozza falls on the hospital bed. Musicians first took a break.
In 1972, BLACK SABBATH VOL came out. 4 ", in support of which the group gave a series of concerts in America and Australia. The next "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath", finally, received positive feedback in the professional environment. No matter how surprisingly, before this, the opinion of the musical critics about the work of rockers was the exact opposite position of the fan community.
In May 1978, the Never Say Die Studiorial was released, the latter with the participation of Ozzy Osborne before the soloist was redeemed for a long time from the group. Calculation of participants continued until 1997. At this year, the group managed to record a couple of concerts, songs from which was based on the Reunion collection.
Despite all these careers and Cambakes of participants and their solo projects, on behalf of Black Sabbath released with a dozen albums, studio and concert. In 2006, the Group was introduced into the Rock and Roll Fame Hall, a year earlier - to the British Music Hall of Fame. The press appeared reports in which the question was raised about the revival of the team, but the musicians were refuted every time. At one time Tony even remained the only "original" participant of Black Sabbath.
At the end of 2011, a truly good benefit has appeared for fans of Hevi-Metal. Black Sabbath gave a press conference at the Los Angeles club Whisky A GO Go, on the stage of which the musicians first spoke in 1970. The group announced reunion.
The session participants of the group, accompanying the legend of rock at concerts and the "Sabbatists" in the sons, were defeated by their performance and the ability to keep rhythm over several hours. The drummer Tommy Klaifetos noticed that "the secret of youth of these glorious people lies in the desire to give people creativity."
For May 2013, a concert was planned at the Moscow Olympic in the framework of a farewell world tour. But the speech did not take place due to the disease Tony, the diagnosed cancer of the lymphatic system was diagnosed. After remission, Ayomami, the musicians continued tour in support of the studio album called "13".
The plate has become a valuable subject of collection of music lovers only because it turned out to be the first in the last 35 years of existence tolack Sabbath. In an interview with Toronto Sun, Osborne was pleased with what was wrong, counting "Never Say Die!" Latest album:
"Now I will never speak" Never "and I'm not at all against a new disk when I am asked about the continuation of" 13 ". If we do not grow up the preparations for the recording of a new plate for a couple of hundred years, then I repeat - I am in business with you, guys, and not against the new Black Sabbath album. "This album, like concerts in support, was held without the participation of the Bill Ward drummer. Ozzy Osbourne stated that colleagues are overweight:
"The drummer must be in the form. He already had two heart attacks. I do not want to answer for his life. "A farewell concert in Russia was still held in the summer of 2016. According to the stories of those present, the audience was in heaven from happiness. The playlist was songs written in the first 20 years of the biography of Black Sabbath. Opened a speech by the composition of the group named, and in the final it was not less cult than the performers themselves, "Paranoid".
With the case of this song, the other Legend of Rock - the Megadeth group - tried to get "Grammy". Hit Glam Rockers from Mötley Crüe and the German Power Metal Group Mystic Prophecy, the founders of the genre of Gothic Metal Type O Negative and the English Three The Meteors.
For sale BLACK Sabbath presented an album with the eloquent name "The End". In the playlist, did not have previously published compositions, as well as concert records of songs from the albums "13" and "Vol.4".
So that the fans are aware of where the final concerts of The End Tour of their favorites will be held, the schedule of performances and additional information were published on the official website. There also laid out video and news about the group.
The final show was held in the native of Musicians Birmingham on Nec Arena. Black Sabbath has played 15 songs, including those who have become the classic "Children of the Grave", "Iron Man" and "War Pigs".
Black Sabbath now
The famous British New Musical Express Tabloid in March 2017 published a peculiar obituary with the image of a purple Logo "Black Sabbath 1968 - 2017", which has become an excess confirmation of the news about the final decay of the group.
However, there, the magazine led the words of Tony that he no longer wants to tour, but
"We can do something. We did not talk about it. We did not talk about anything, in fact, but I am sure that something can happen somewhere. "In 2017, BMG label released Box Set "The Ten Year War" with the songs of Black Sabbath, a book about a group and a flash drive in the form of a cross. In 2018, the company decided to repeat the experience and announced the exit in June of the vinyl box-set with rare signs of singles.
Clips
- "The Wizard"
- "Loner"
- "PARANOID"
- "BLACK SABBATH"
- "Ironman"
- "CROSS PURPOSES LIVE"
Discography
- 1970 - "BLACK SABBATH"
- 1970 - "BLACK SABBATH"
- 1971 - "Master of Reality"
- 1972 - "Black Sabbath Vol. 4"
- 1973 - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
- 1975 - "Sabotage"
- 1976 - "WE SOLD OUR SOUL FOR ROCK 'N' ROLL"
- 1976 - "TECHNICAL ECSTASY"
- 1978 - "Never Say Die!"
- 1980 - Heaven and Hell
- 1983 - "Born Again"
- 1987 - "The Eternal Idol"
- 1994 - "Cross Purposes"
- 1997 - "Reunion"
- 2002 - "Past Lives"
- 2013 - "13"
- 2016 - "The End"