What do you get when a jazz drummer, a former abattoir worker, a guitarist without a full set of fingers and a trainee accountant walk into a bar? According to this exclusive extract from Steve Carr’s new book Every Record Tells A Story: A Vinyl Handbook, you get the birth of heavy metal, that's what

50 years after Black Sabbath unleashed their debut album, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler look back on the birth of the band that changed the world

Black Sabbath's classic Paranoid gets a vinyl makeover for its 50th anniversary, with two live albums and a rare mix

It is, of course, not uncommon for musicians to cover each other. It's perhaps a bit more unexpected when established indie musicians go and form a full-blown cover band. That is, however, what has happened with Black Sabbath Cover Band Rehearsal. As you might be able to tell from the name, it's not exactly your…

Sharon says Ozzy’s health is getting better every day and reveals the Black Sabbath icon is working once again with Andrew Watt on the follow-up to Ordinary Man