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This Night Changed My Life!!!

Tickets/press advert for Birmingham gig on 13th March 1970.

Black Sabbath photographs, concert ticket and flyer (1970)

Acquired from Simon & Jo Baugh Age 44/42 Sunday 4th January 1981 Black Sabbath - New Bingley Hall Stafford £4.50 "Went to Stafford Bingley Hall with friends and a teacher from school to see 'Sabbath' - a live show that was exactly what you expected."

Royal Albert Hall ticket stub 26th April 1971

Ticket for a Gig that was cancelled, just as Sabbath hit the big time

Acquired from Merv Williams Age: 44 Black Sabbath ticket stub - Odeon Theatre Birmingham 24/05/80 Rear Stalls £3.50

Ticket for Black Sabbath at Town Hall, Birmingham 24th January 1972

Philip Osborne describes the gig. Some sources state that the gigs took place on 12th/13th of the month following a PA blow out.

First time seeing Ozzy and Sabbath with Dio. This was shortly after Randys tragic death.

Acquired from Merv Williams Age: 44 Ozzy ticket stub Blizzard Of Oz Tour- Odeon Birmingham 28/09/80 £3.50

Ticket and photo from gig on 13th May 1970

Black Sabbath Hammersmith Odeon Ticket stub Sabotage Tour

Live at Odeon Theatre 1986, Birmingham supported by Ratt.

Acquired from Mark Parrish Ozzy Osbourne Ticket 'No Rest For The Wicked' Tour Support U.D.O NEC Birmingham 3/05/1989

Malcolm Carter Age 49 25/05/80 - Ticket for Black Sabbath at the Odeon Theatre in Birmingham

This was Black Sabbaths first concert in Georgia. It was also my first concert, I was never quite the same.  After this, it’s like I heard everything with new ears. I was transformed.

How did I come by this priceless rare ticket? I went to a record fair at Birmingham NEC back in 1994 and bought a first pressing of Black Sabbath's first album for £25. When I got it home to examine it this ticket was inside the sleeve. How lucky am I?