Ozzy being fired in 79 was the best thing that happened to him and Black Sabbath. He went on to reach unheard of heights with his solo career and Sabbath were reborn with Dio, perfecting their act.
NO ONE, including Ozzy and Sabbath, ever accomplished anything even close to as amazing as Sabbath 1970-1979. Everyone made money but after Never Say Die!, the magic was clearly gone.
It took me years to like this song. But now I see why its perhaps one of the best Rock/Metal albums ever!!! A complete different approach than the previous Sabbath records with Ozzy.
I'm 72 yrs old now but this track from Sabbeth's Heaven and Hell album still sends shiver's down my spine. Vocalist was the fantastic Ronnie James Dio who replaced Ozzie In 1979 for a while. Dio sold over 47 million records before he died in 2010. Sadly missed.
this album is a fucking masterpiece, each track has a own identity with a deep meaning in the yrics merged with powerful guitar solos and a killer vocals i don't know how to explain i can only say thanks to these guys for released this
SDS 4Life hell yes!!! Until my last breath! Dio lives on in my library forever! Iommi master guitarist can’t be beat!!!! Love this LIVE with DIO and Geezer🤟🏼🎸🔥🖤❗️ Rock on my friends!
@@davesaenz3732 just cant believe it. Lets pretend his songs are bad ( I tottaly disagree). Jimi Hendrix besides creating all the guitar culture, couldnt be a human being. Unfortunately youtube doesnt let Jimi's shows been here, but if you have a good taste for music, like I believe you do, you already know that. In 3 years from "are you experienced" to "eletric ladyland", he left a legacy beyond any other guitarrist would live. I dont know if you are gonna be angry to me, but thats just my opinion. This week I fighted to someone here on youtube so hard because of the Beatles and I dont wanna do it again.
@@fabiodias8263 I had several albums from Jimmy Hendrix as a teen. But it was tony Iommi who really caught my attention. Just like he did for countless that followed. "We used to play every Black Sabbath song"- Eddie Van Halen. "Black Sabbath is a band that has influenced every metal band in the world, including us" -James Hatfield, Metallica. "If anyone says they were not influenced by Sabbath, they are liars" Motley Crew. From Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pantera, Megadeath, and many more, Black Sabbath was up there with the Beatles. I love Jimmy Hendrix, he has a place in rock history, but what Tony Iommi achieved in creating and paving the way for many more musicians is incredible. The Beatles created modern rock music, the same type that made Sabbath famous. Black Sabbath took that to a new level and heavy metal was official born. Jimmy was good and pushed guitar to another level. A great feat! But I'm looking at overall contributions to music on a grand scale. We may say if it wasn't for the Beatles we may not have Black Sabbath, no Sabbath, no Metallica. No Jimmy, no Jimmy page, but then no guitar no rock music. That is another argument of who made who? There are 40 tracks i like from Sabbath, 4 from Jimmy. You may like 25 from Jimmy and 10 from Iommi. That is personal taste and I respect that. I'm just pointing out how much of a contribution and influential Iommi has been. He's perhaps still very underrated. My favorite Hendrix songs not in any order: All along the watch tower, Hey Joe, Are you experience, and there's one i can't remember, but please give me 5 more so I can understand you better. I've tried listening and I can't get into much of his music. But this has happened with some Thrash metal music, I just don't get it. It all sounds the same. No melody to follow. Let me know what you think. Sometimes I prefer some country music over thrash metal. I encourage you to listen to Mana. They play in Spanish but their music is really up there with some of these greats. I mean amazing guitar work. Its very simple but very very effective. "Why play a thousand notes when you can do it with just a few" Angus Young, ACDC. Rock on 🎸. As a guitar player for 30 years, I've been studying many types of music and artists, but Iommi, Rhandy Rhoads, Van Halen are my top 3. What are your favorites? I like to step out of my comfort zone and start exploring new ways to improve my playing.
@@davesaenz3732 perfect, mate. Loved your answer. I agree and disagree, but respect a lot your opinion. Its sad that from the 4 jimi's songs you like, 2 are not his lyrics lol. Anyway, I love Spanish castle magic, bold as love, third stone from the sun, foxey lady, come on (let the good times roll), purple haze, crosstown traffic... There are lots of jimi's tunes that I love, I cant choose just 5, so probably tomorrow this list is going to change. But anyway, I got your point and I'm glad you are not just one more idiot that ofends people that disagree from their point of view. Edit: I just cant tell you my top 3 guitarists. Probably Jimi Hendrix, Tony iommi and David Gilmour, but it changes sometimes
Gather the wind Though the wind won't help you fly at all Your back's to the wall Chain the sun and it tears away And it breaks you as you run, you run, you run Behind the smile there's danger and a promise to be told You'll never get old Life's fantasy, to be locked away And still to think you're free, you're free, we're free So live for today Tomorrow never comes Die young, die young Can't you see the writing in the air Die young, gonna die young Someone stopped the fair Gather the wind Though the wind won't help you fly at all Your back's to the wall Chain the sun and it tears away And it breaks you as you run, you run, you run So live for today Tomorrow never comes Die young, young Die young, die young Die young, die young, young Die young, die young, die young, die young, die young!
This song is so powerful, amazing energy both dark and light at the same time. Incredible harmony, melody, drums, singing, you name it. An amazingly overlooked song from one of the bands who invented metal itself.
Tony said nothing but good things about Nicholls in his book, always a pro, always there for work and he did help drive Iommi to work harder and make music when he was down, they were very good friends.
Geoff Nicholls should be on stage, on the spot with the other guys, and not in the shadow, playing in the backstage or from a corner of the stage, because he was a true member of Black Sabbath. He was with Black Sabbath for 25 years, for fuck sake...
The whole album is a masterwork, but this song really illustrates the energy Dio brought to the band. The interplay between Dio's vocals and Tony's playing is still jaw-dropping 40+ years later.
I wish more metal bands these days wrote songs that had parts similar to the beautiful, dreamy sounding intro and interlude to this song! Combining parts like that with the heavy sections of the song seems to have become a lost art!
This song makes me cry because it's really an example of the poetic wizard Dio was. Long Live Rock N Roll Forever. May we never let the olde way of singing die. Swords high for Dio
If there was ever a good reason to have fired Ozzy from Black Sabbath this would be it. I think that some of their best music was written with Ronnie in the band.
A true masterpeice, with dio's SUPRA-UNIQUE singing, Tony's melodic shredding, Bill ward's AMAZING drumming, and Geezer's insane bass lines, this song is truly a fine work of art!
These are artists and not the shambles of creativity we have today. Rock on to the generations that saw this release and grew up with it. Rock on to younger people like me who enjoy this kind of music.
The 80s was wild man. There were no rules, no restrictions, no judgements. If people liked a song, it got played, didn't matter what genre it was or what tv program. We would see songs like this on Saturday mornings, afternoons and at night. It was an absolutely free decade and anything went
Yes Iommi is a very talented guitarist ! Becoming a great guitarist after having his fingers cut is just incredible ! And concerning Ronnie, Dio means God in italian, my native language, nothing more to say :) Keep on rockin' ! \m/
Ronnie James Dio had the most epic rock voice of all time. It warms my heart that he was a fantastic man and friend to many. It makes you love him even more.
I love OZZY with Sabbath, I grew up hearing them fanatically. I LOVE Dio with Sabbath after kicking Ozzy out. Anyone who does not hear the enormous power Dio has and how perfect he fitted on this album and others is someone who has no understanding of talent and the meaning of such a powerful voice Dio has/had. I got to see Sabbath live with Dio at the LA Forum but never saw them with original lineup, was to young. I did briefly meet the original Sabbath at an album signing event in Hollywood when Tower Records was still around, a real treat to shake Bill Wards hand, he got out of his chair and snapped me out from starring at all of them in aw and then I froze when I got to Tony, my guitar influence of all time. Tony sat next to Bill. Whoa.... it was him! IN person! Tony singed my CD then I continued starring in awe, Tony just kept smiling graciously. Bill got up and very politely stood up, stretched his hand for a hand shake and said "Hello there." I snapped out of it quickly. But, Sabbath made a huge mistake when they changed vocalist and later read it was all a bunch of Ozzy's wife's BS trying to make Dio bow to Ozzy and other business politics Dio did not care for. Sharron wanted Sabbath with Dio to open for Ozzy. Dio refused and don't blame him. The music industry is a business also and many people don't know that. Each member has an attorney and own manager, blah blah blah, some even are paid more than others... it becomes a bowl of shit then disputes start and then that ends the magic for who? THE FANS!
Haven't heard this song for years, just watching some reaction videos from vocal coaches listening to Ronnie …. I played this video to remember this great tune, forgot how it softened at 2:10 , now I'm teary eyed …
When I was listening to this song decades ago there was no internet to look up the lyrics. I understood most of the words but not all of them. I just realized that he's saying "chain the sun and it tears away to face you as you run." And it makes me love the song even more. Shit's deep. Although my fantasy is to be locked away and still to think I'm free.
Fantastic Ronnie, fantastic song beautiful album Heaven and Hell, is new stile of Black Sabbath song! I remember was 18 when I bought this record, living in southern Italy was the era of melodic music and those who listened to hard rock were partly emerging. There were no magazines, there was no network, only images from the albums and a lot of fantasy. The boys today are many more fortunate than us fifty years of today .... thanks for posting. Hello from Rome
Yeah bro but wasnt it better the mystic the fantasy imagination and the whole thing of the time metal ruled the world and music was a magic soundtrack of life
Thanks to the guys of Black Sabbath for letting an unknown singer of (elf) songwriter be a member of the team when they most needed it. Who would of guessed he would be the wizard, goblin, nome, see'er that would bring this band back from the grave. 🤘
Saw Ozzie and Black Sabbath in Fla back in the late 70s. Ozzie got everybody to jump up on their seats and go crazy. 50 years and that's still a great memory. What a Concert!!!
one of the greatest songs and bands of all time you cant go wrong with these guys there versatility and artistry is almost unmatched id say yea there tons of other great legendary bands out there like led zeppelin the who rolling stones the beatles queen alice n chains soundgarden and many more but even after ozzie there original lead singer got fired they still got another brilliant lead vocalist and still made great music this band has many masterpieces
Wow...Dio's vocals on this one works like a powerful force which pulls you out of demise and puts you on the path of prosperity...ironic but true ...R.I.P master elf...🤘🤘
