BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID VERTIGO swirl 1st Press DE "Philips" credit
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BLACK SABBATH -
PARANOID
VERTIGO
VERTIGO 6360 011
DE 1970
1st Press with the "Philips" credit on the label
First press matrices 1Y and 2Y with the earliest stampers
To capitalise on the chart success of their debut album in the US, the band returned to the studio in June 1970, just four months after Black Sabbath was released. The new album was initially set to be titled War Pigs, which was critical of the Vietnam War; however, Warner changed the title of the album toParanoid when what would become the album's lead-off single, "Paranoid", was written in the studio at the last minute. As Bill Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the (Paranoid) guitar lick and that was it. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom."
The single was released in September 1970 and reached number four on the UK charts, remaining Black Sabbath's only top ten hit. The album followed in the UK in October 1970, where, pushed by the success of the "Paranoid" single, it made number one in the charts.
The US release was held until January 1971, as the Black Sabbath album was still on the charts at the time of Paranoid's UK release. The album reached No. 12 in the US in March 1971, and would go on to sell four million copies in the US,with virtually no radio airplay. Like Black Sabbath, the album was panned by rock critics of the era, but modern-day reviewers such as Allmusic's Steve Huey cite Paranoid as "one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time", which "defined the sound and style of heavy metal more than any other record in rock history". The album is currently ranked at No. 131 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Sleeve: VG+. A lovely gatefold sleeve nearly identical to the UK press apart from the cat. nr. to the back which has the D printed next to it. A couple of light edge creases and very light edge wear. The inside gatefold is EX and unmarked. The spine is still fully legible. NO writing and no damage. This will be a quality addition to most collections.
Labels: EX+.
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