Rat Salad: Black Sabbath: The Classic Years 1969-1975

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ISBN-10:

1844139247

ISBN-13:

9781844139248

Author(s): Wilkinson, Paul
Released: Jul 04, 2006
Publisher: Pimlico
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages

Description:

A winning account of Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath in their early, glory years.

Black Sabbath is one of the most outrageous, yet long-lasting bands in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. This informative, idiosyncratic and beguiling book paints a vivid picture of their colourful early history — interwoven with all the most crucial news stories of the time: from Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and the Space program.

Where Rat Salad diverges from routes taken by most rock biographies, however, is in its detailed analysis of the band’s first six albums. These chapters — think Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head meets Spinal Tap — occupy about half the book and persuasively explain the appeal of the music, its compositional artistry and its frequently audacious inventiveness.

Original and passionate, Rat Salad embraces a remarkably diverse cast of characters — from Ozzy Osbourne himself and the other band members, through to Edith Sitwell, Breugel the Elder, John Milton and Doris Day. The author’s hand looms large in the piece. We see him both as a boy and man — from schoolboy ingénue to inveterate devotee — as he looks back at a life populated with love, sex, drugs and death played out against a backdrop of crucifixes and power chords.

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