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In house vertigo records acetate for Into the Void , edited for a 7” single which was never released

LIVE ALBUM RECORDED PARIS 1970

Gillan single from 1981. Gillan played with Black Sabbath for a year, replacing Ronnie James Dio as vocalist in 1983.

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

A side - 'Paranoid' B side - 'The Wizard'

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

Black Sabbath, ‘Master of Reality’ (1971)

Diamond Head ‘Lightning to the Nations’ LP (1980) - only 1000 copies released through Happy Face Records

“Turn Up the Night” is the first song of the Black Sabbath’s album Mob Rules. It reached number #37 and #24 in the UK/US charts, respectively. In a radio interview the band revealed that the four-beat hi-hat cymbal intro was simply a time-setter and was supposed .
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South African only acetate for a compilation record that was never released. Gallo records are the vertigo records arm in South Africa

3 track 7” in-house acetate sampler got paranoid album

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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ORIGINAL 1970 PARANOID LP

A side - 'Neon Knights' B side - 'Children of the Sea' (live) From the album 'Heaven and Hell', first album with Ronnie James Dio on vocals.

In house acetate promo for Warner Brother – USA acetate

This 7" lovingly sits alongside my collection of European picture sleeve 45s.

7” label sampler of vertigo acts inc black sabbath

Vertigo in house 4 track sampler for vol4 acetate

Only 100 pressed back in 1972. On the other side there is Status Quo with 'Roadhouse Blues'. I bought this at a record fair in Brighton in 1980, for £15.

'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' on vinyl

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.