Call Upon The Author

Kev Farren adds his two cents to the debate on what gives an album ‘classic’ status with this compelling argument…

Let’s start this review with a confession… I was extremely happy to receive these CDs as I actually far prefer Ronnie James Dio to Ozzy Osbourne! I realise that to many this may seem blasphemy, but when I’m listening to an album, I want to hear a talented singer, not a showy front man and [...]

Black Sabbath, one of the most prominent and influential faces of the 70’s Rock topography were, by the decade’s end, a band in disarray. Once the masters of their own reality; the Birmingham four-piece were now battle weary veterans, wearing the deep scars of a near ten year album-tour-album cycle. Black Sabbath’s latest album, Never [...]

Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne – four names that resonate throughout Rock’s recorded history as clear and sublime as the haunting bell that tolls the opening to “Black Sabbath”, the band’s debut album from 1970.  Collectively, they formed Black Sabbath and forged the most haunting and hypnotic rock sound of all time. [...]