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ORIGINAL 1972 VOL 4

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

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"

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.

“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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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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Paranoid coloured vinyl -Lebanon

7” label sampler of vertigo acts inc black sabbath

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

South African only acetate for a compilation record that was never released. Gallo records are the vertigo records arm in South Africa

Vertigo in house 4 track sampler for vol4 acetate

Paranoid pre production 17” acetate records

Hyper rare Chilean picture sleeve for Paranoid – only 100 made . Re released recently by Bnb for the ten years war boxset . also stock sleeve Chilean , which is unusually blue plastic . also it’s a mono mix !

In house acetate promo for Warner Brother – USA acetate

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

2 x 10” South African in-house promo acetate

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