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Black Sabbath, ‘Master of Reality’ (1971)

Misspent youth...and pocket money (just kiddin', every penny was well spent)

South African only acetate for a compilation record that was never released. Gallo records are the vertigo records arm in South Africa

Vertigo records acetate – promo only mix of a proposed single release that never happened .

Vertigo 6350 050, August 1971, the "box" edition with poster.

Three hundred plus Sab vinyl albums (with a few 12 inch singles...)

Django Reinhardt LP (1956). Django is credited with developing a new style of jazz guitar following injury to his hand.

Black Sabbath is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released on 13 February 1970 in the United Kingdom, and later on 1 June 1970 in the United States, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and has .
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Collected as a young metalhead growing up in Brum in the ’80s right through to an ageing metalhead growing old in Nottingham.

'Never Say Die' 7"

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Ronnie, Tony and Geezer several times and collected their autographs on my original vinyl copy of Heaven and Hell. I never met Bill but a friend’s uncle is Paul Clark who was Sabbath’s road manager in the early 80s .
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3 track 7” in-house acetate sampler got paranoid album

Paranoid coloured vinyl -Lebanon

Live in Bremen, November 25, 1987

Evil Woman seven inch single (1970)

Paranoid pre production 17” acetate records

A side - 'Hard Road' B side - 'Symptom of the Universe' on purple vinyl

Check out the spelling on the HEADLESS CROSS picture disc album. 'Devil And Daugther' ! I would like to know if anyone has a copy with the correct spelling (Daughter). Now, that would be rare!

Swiss only record club record , usually a uk vinyl pressing , there are bootlegs also , but they have different matrix no’s and the back of sleeve has pen marks by a couple of tracks , which shown the copy they used to bootleg had .
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