If you're yet to add any Black Sabbath to your record collection, these must-have albums are still cheap thanks to Amazon's Black Friday record sale

This double album has all of the band’s most famous and influential songs, including Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Children Of The Grave, Sweet Leaf and of course the signature song Black Sabbath. In 1968, when the four members of Sabbath’s original line-up first got together as The Polka Tulk Blues Band, their music was as inspired by the stars of the British blues-rock boom such as Fleetwood Mac. It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.

Author: Paul Elliott

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