BLACK SABBATH "THE ETERNAL IDOL" 1987 WARNER BROS.NM/EX- OOP RARE PROMO STAMPED

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ARTIST: BLACK SABBATH

TITLE- “THE ETERNAL IDOL”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS & BELOW:

A1

The Shining

A2

Ancient Warrior

A3

Hard Life To Love

A4

Glory Ride

B1

Born To Lose

B2

Nightmare

B3

Scarlet Pimpernel

B4

Lost Forever

B5

Eternal Idol

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.

• Copyright (c) – Intersong USA, Inc.

• Pressed By – Allied Record Company

• Mastered At – Sheffield Lab Matrix – 18753

Credits

• Art Direction, Design – Shoot That Tiger!

• Bass – Bob Daisley, Dave Spitz

• Drums – Eric Singer

• Executive Producer – Patrick Meehan

• Keyboards – Geoff Nicholls

• Lyrics By, Music By, Performer [The Player] – Tony Iommi

• Percussion – Bev Bevan

• Photography By – Cindy Palmano

• Producer [Air Studios, London] – Vic Coppersmith-Heaven

• Producer [Air Studios, Montserrat] – J. Glixman*

• Producer [Battery Studios, London], Mixed By – Chris Tsangarides

• Vocals – Tony Martin

Notes

The record is housed in a printed outer sleeve witha printed inner dust liner which includes full album lyrics.
Catalogue number "9 25548-1" is printer on the spine of the outer sleeve and on the liner. "1-25548" is printed on the face labels.
"Made in USA" is printed on the bottom of the liner.
"A digital recording" is printed on the rear sleeve.

Warner Bros Records Inc., A Warner Communications company [Warner 'big w' logo]. © 1987 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
? 1987 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7599-25548-1

• Matrix / Runout (Side A): 1-25548-A-SH3 QB-29592-SH3 18753

• Matrix / Runout ( Side B): 1-25548-B-SH2 QB-29592-SH2 18753-X

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 2): 1-25548-A-SH1 QB-29592-SH1 ?/8753 /-/

• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 2): 1-25548-B--SH2 QB-29593-SH2 ?18753-X /-/

• Matrix / Runout (Side A ETCHED Variant 3): 1-25548-A-SH1 QB-29592-SH1 ?18753 1-1

• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 3): 1-25548-B--SH2 QB-29593-SH2 ?18753-X 1-1

• Other: MADE IN USA
  

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1987

LABEL- WARNER BROS. RECORDS

CAT.#: 1-25548

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN NM/NM- CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS. LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO WRITING, MARKS, TEARS, CLEAN CORNERS. THERE'S SOME VERY VERY FAINT RING WEAR LEFT SIDE BACK JACKET. (SEE PHOTO).

MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. HAS A GOLD INK EMBOSSED PROMO STAMP (SEE PHOTO). COMES WITH INNER SLEEVE W/LYRICS IN EX.COND. (THERE'S A VERY SMALL 2” SEAM SPLIT ON ONE OF THE EDGES (FYI).

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST/RELEASE:

Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath (1970), Paranoid (1970), and Master of Reality (1971). The band had multiple line-up changes following Osbourne's departure in 1979, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history.

After previous iterations of the group called the Polka Tulk Blues Band and Earth, the band settled on the name Black Sabbath in 1969. They distinguished themselves through occult themes with horror-inspired lyrics and tuned-down guitars. Signing to Philips Records in November 1969, they released their first single, "Evil Woman" in January 1970. Their debut album, Black Sabbath, was released the following month. Though it received a negative critical response, the album was a commercial success, leading to a follow-up record, Paranoid, later in 1970. The band's popularity grew, and by 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, critics were starting to respond favourably.

Osbourne's regular use of drugs and alcohol led to his firing in 1979. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Following two albums with Dio, Black Sabbath endured many personnel changes in the 1980s and 1990s that included vocalists Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin, as well as several drummers and bassists. In 1991, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer (1992). The original line-up reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album Reunion. Black Sabbath's final studio album and nineteenth overall, 13 (2013), features all of the original members except Ward. During their farewell tour, the band played their final concert in their home city of Birmingham on 4 February 2017.

Black Sabbath were ranked by MTV as the "Greatest Metal Band" of all time, and placed second in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 on their "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". They have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. They have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance, and in 2019 the band were presented a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Eternal Idol is the thirteenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released on November 1, 1987(UK) and December 8, 1987(USA). It is the first Black Sabbath album to feature vocalist Tony Martin. It spent six weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at 168.It was also the last full album of new material by Black Sabbath to be released by Warner Bros. Records (in North America), and the final album through their original label Vertigo Records until the release of 13 in 2013.

Album information

The album cover features two models in bronze paint re-enacting Auguste Rodin's 1889 sculpture "The Eternal Idol". Due to the paint's toxicity, the models were hospitalized after the shoot. A photograph of the original sculpture was intended as the cover art, but permission could not be secured.

The sleeve credits Dave Spitz as bass player, but all bass parts were by Bob Daisley. Eric Singer played the drums; the percussion credit for Bev Bevan relates to a few cymbal overdubs on "Scarlet Pimpernel".

The album was originally to be recorded with Spitz and vocalist Ray Gillen. The former was replaced by bassist/lyricist Bob Daisley during initial sessions on Montserrat with producer Jeff Glixman. Gillen had struggled with recording the vocal parts according to Bob, Dave, and Geoff and management wasn't paying him. Gillen quit shortly after their return to England.He later joined the band Badlands.Nightmare was initially written for the third Nightmare on Elm Street movie.

Tony Martin was hired and reconstructed the vocals under the guidance of Chris Tsangarides at Battery Studios shortly before production ended.Most tracks were written by Tony Iommi and Bob Daisley (the vinyl version states that all songs were written by Iommi) although some lyrics were modified by Geoff Nicholls. Martin said he "only sang on, and had no part in writing" The Eternal Idol, but nonetheless "thought [it] was one of the better albums of the band."

Drummer Bevan and original Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler were hired for a 1987 tour in support of the album, which would have reunited three-quarters of the Born Again tour line-up (with Martin singing rather than Ian Gillan). However, Butler backed out on learning that Sabbath had booked dates in South Africa. Nicholls played bass for a few shows before Jo Burt was hired. Bevan was subsequently replaced by former Clash drummer Terry Chimes, who appears in the music video for "The Shining". ("The bass player in the 'Shining' video," recalled Martin, was some guy that we dragged off the street. I can't remember his name but he looked the part. He said that he was a guitarist. I remember he was always talking about how he was a Red Indian, thus all the turquoise he wore! We never saw him again.")

"I'd like to have seen some of the stuff off The Eternal Idol be a bit more credited," Iommi reflected to Sabbath fanzine Southern Cross, "because I think there's some good tracks on that album – 'Ancient Warrior'…"

A three-minute and fifteen second studio outtake titled "Some Kind of Woman", written by Tony Martin shortly after joining the band, appeared as a b-side of "The Shining" single. An early version of "Black Moon" – a song destined for Headless Cross – was released as a b-side of the "Eternal Idol" single.

The album was rereleased on 1 November 2010 in Europe as a two-disc expanded set. Bonus content includes the aforementioned b-sides "Some Kind of Woman" and "Black Moon" on disc 1. Disc 2 contains the session for the album recorded with Ray Gillen on vocal

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