Park Lane, Aston
Pages from Birmingham Central Library archives.
Pages from Birmingham Central Library archives.
Strange Conflict – Dennis Wheatley (1965). Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath was influenced by Wheatley's works.
Midland Beat Feb 1964
To the Devil a Daughter - Dennis Wheatley (1968)
An actual membership card, not a scan.
Keith Law is a gigging musician and song writer now based in the west country. In the mid – late 60s he was Birmingham based. Around this time he came into contact with Robert Plant and the Band of Joy. In this oral history clip .
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As part of the Metal on Film programme 1-4th September 2011 the Italian cut of the film that Black Sabbath take their name from was screened.
Mothers t shirt
Taste poster from Mothers Vibration Society
The Electric Guitar Amplifier Handbook by Jack Darr (1966)
Mothers Posters (1969-1970) - a selection of 5 posters.
Mothers membership card (1968)
This Jacket is certainly one of the coolest historical Black Sabbath items ever ! The jacket was bought by Tony Iommi in 1969 and wore it out through Sabbath's early tours adding stickers and patches along the way.The Jacket was donated by Tony Iommi to Hard Rock and is currently in display at Hard Rock in Berlin,Germany.
Recording of Tony and Bill's 1968 pre Sabbath band.
One of two records called BRUM BEAT released in 1964.
This is a photo of Earth or Black Sabbath on stage.
The Rare Breed advert
Melody Maker (1969) - The Blues still dominated the front pages up until the late 60's.
Dennis Wheatley novel
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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Rhythm & Blues All Stars LP (1966)
Brownie & Sonny LP (1965).
Dont Know if this will interest you,Iwas in a band called Titus Oates, bluesy band doing the circuit in Brum in the late sixties, we used to do the same gigs as Black Sabath. Lots of people remember us and the best gig we did was the Alhambra back of new st, other members were Dave Fear on Drums Ron Braid Vocals John Hankin on bass and me on guitar Met Robert Plant etc