The Archive

Collected as a young metalhead growing up in Brum in the ’80s right through to an ageing metalhead growing old in Nottingham.

Black Sabbath ‘Vol.4’ record signed by Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler backstage after the bands show at Birmingham’s NIA on 22/12/2013

Black Sabbath ‘Vol.4’ record signed by Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler backstage after the bands show at Birmingham’s NIA on 22/12/2013

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath LP signed by Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi backstage after their first ever gig in the middle east in Abu Dhabi ,UAE on 29/5/2014

Live in Bremen, November 25, 1987

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

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

Ozzy first band recordings found from 1966

Not all the biographies mention that after Mythology disappeared in a puff of smoke sometime in the first half of 1968, Tony Iommi was involved in a band called Velvett Fogg. The band would eventually record an album with Tony’s cousin on guitar. Very .
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Recording of Tony and Bill's 1968 pre Sabbath band.

2 x 10” South African in-house promo acetate

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

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