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“We finished the record and then the producer told us we needed one more song to finish up the album, so we just came up with ‘Paranoid’ on the spot. Tony Iommi just played this riff and we all went along with it. We didn’t think anything of it.”
But wait...there's more...the band's record company decided that, because they thought the track was the best song on the album, Paranoid should also be the title of the LP.
“We had originally wanted the record to be called War Pigs, and that’s what the record company was planning as well when they came up with the record cover, which is really horrible to begin with,” Geezer said. “The cover was bad enough when the album was going to be War Pigs, but when it was Paranoid it didn’t even make sense.”
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Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22 musicians have at one time been members of Black Sabbath....
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