We might be slightly out on the date of these photos which are likely to have been taken for Metal Hammer.
Music article (from approximately 1974) in which Tony Iommi discusses his factory injury and how Django was his inspiration to continue to play music.
I have never knowingly seen a UK Vertigo copy of TECHNICAL ECSTASY or NEVER SAY DIE. Would love to know of if they exist, or if they don't!
Vertigo in house 4 track sampler for vol4 acetate
Front covers
Postcard from Australia
Acquired from Mark Parrish Ozzy Osbourne Ticket 'No Rest For The Wicked' Tour Support U.D.O NEC Birmingham 3/05/1989
Mob Rules 1982 tour t-shirt. Obtained from a Nottingham shop keeper in exchange for some Sabbath/Ozzy collectables. originaly brought at the 1982 Bingley Hall gig on the Mob Rules tour.
1973 – lots of hair and drinking at The Giffard (Arms), Wolverhampton
Didn’t know which existing category to use for this one!
Laney amp badges
I met Dio and Vinny at their London hotel during the last ever Heaven & Hell (band) UK dates when they signed my original copy of Mob Rules. That was the last time I saw Ronnie.
Photograph of Black Sabbath taken at Jim Simpson's house.
Cathy Myhill (pictured with her husband Pat) designed the poster for a Black Sabbath gig on 2nd March 1970 at Birmingham College of Art and Commerce (as it was then known), which they are holding. Pat booked the gig in his capacity as social secretary .
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Black Sabbath UK tour programme for the Mob Rules tour which ran from 31/12/81 thru til 15/1/82...