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*New Release*
released on 8/7/2022
DEEP BLACK
by BLACK SABBATH
Compact Disc
ICON088
Label: ICONOGRAPHY
STUNNING 1983 SHOW WITH IAN GILLAN ON VOCALS
Following a three-year stint as Black Sabbath’s vocalist following the departure of Ozzy Osbourne in 1979, Ronnie James Dio left
Sabbath himself in 1982 to form his own band, and took drummer Vinny Appice with him.
The remaining original members, Tommy Iommi and Geezer Butler, began auditioning singers for the band's next release. Deep
Purple and Whitesnake's David Coverdale, Samson's Nicky Moore and Lone Star's John Sloman were all considered and Iommi
states in his autobiography that Michael Bolton auditioned. The band settled on former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan to replace Dio in
December 1982. The project was initially not to be called Black Sabbath, but pressure from the record label forced the group to retain
the name. The band entered The Manor Studios in Oxfordshire in June 1983 with a returned and newly sober Bill Ward on drums.
Born Again was released in August 1983, and reached number four in the UK, and number 39 in the U.S., becoming the highest
charting Black Sabbath album in the United Kingdom since Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973.
Unable to tour because of the pressures of the road, Ward quit the band. He was replaced by former Electric Light Orchestra drummer
Bev Bevan for the Born Again '83–'84 world tour, which began in Europe with Diamond Head, and later in the U.S. with Quiet Riot and
Night Ranger.
Among the finest shows on the tour, the band’s performance at The Centrum in Worcester, MA, on 4th November 1983 remains a firm
favourite among fans and collector’s, recorded as it was for FM radio broadcast and transmitted live across the U.S.
Previously unreleased, this dynamic show is now available on this new CD for the first time.
1 Supertzar 2:20
2 Children Of The Grave 5:06
3 Hot Line 5:01
4 War Pigs 7:30
5 Iron Man 8:59
6 Zero The Hero 7:46
7 Heaven & Hell 8:42
8 Guitar Solo 8:42
9 Digital Bitch 3:52
10 Black Sabbath 7:53
11 Smoke On The Water 5:18
12 Paranoid 3:51
