The Archive

Various formats and releases of the debut album. Different labels and countries etc.

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!

'Never Say Die' 7"

'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' on vinyl

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

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.

2 x 10” South African in-house promo acetate

Paranoid coloured vinyl -Lebanon

Vertigo in house 4 track sampler for vol4 acetate

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

Black Sabbath Vol.4 on vinyl

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

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

Paranoid pre production 17” acetate records

'Paranoid' single on vinyl

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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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.

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