My introduction to Black Sabbath
I bought Seventh Star in 1986, and I thought it was amazing.
At the time, I was just getting into metal, and really, I didn’t know jack about the history.
I knew that Ozzy was a thing, but I didn’t know he’d been Sabbath’s first singer.
I was also liking Dio’s second album, The Last in Line, but again, had no idea at the time that he’d been in Sabbath, either.
All I knew was the music, and if I liked it, I listened to it.
I also loved listening to Rainbow’s Finyl Vinyl.
And all of that added up in my mind to one thing: I really didn’t care who was in the band, just as long as they played music I liked, I was happy.
On that, I’ve never changed.
I didn’t really know much about Glenn Hughes, didn’t pay much heed to him being fired by Black Sabbath, and by the time that Eternal Idol came along, I’d also bought, listened to and loved the Dio era Sabbath albums.
By then, I knew the history with Ozzy, but it wasn’t until the 2000s that I bought the albums from that era.

It’s probably a very cock-eyed way to get into Black Sabbath, but that’s how I did it. And in all of their guises, all of their line-ups, I’ve loved all of their music.
With Ozzy, Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and then defined it.
After Ozzy, they refined it and took it to new heights, and influenced an entire legion of bands that came afterwards.
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