“Imagine the questions we got asked after that? “What’s the have to do with Paranoid?” Well, nothing, really. “There’s a guy standing there with a shield and a sword, with the album title called Paranoid,” added Iommi. “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.” “The record cover is really horrible to begin with, but it was based on this idea of ‘War Pigs,’” Butler said. The band’s originally wanted to use the title Walpurgis, for the record, which Butler said is “kind of like Christmas for Satanists.” The label refused and a compromise was reached – or so everyone thought. Records had agreed to call the album War Pigs and were already working on the cover art. It was a strange suggestion since Black Sabbath and Warner Bros. “And then later the record company said, ‘Hey guys, this is the best song on the album. “We didn’t think anything of it because we thought it was just another song,” Butler said. “And then when the other guys came back I played it to them and they thought it was good, so we recorded that just as a filler.” Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" Music Video “I sat there during the lunch break and came up with the main riff for ‘Paranoid,’ Iommi said. So after tracking the other seven songs, Black Sabbath wrote the title track on the spot. One of the biggest suggestions was to write another song for the album that would serve as a single. He came up with a few suggestions here and there and we’d do it.” A lot of producers tried that, but dismally failed. It sounds easy, but it’s actually a really hard thing to do - to record a band live in the studio and get the whole feeling across. We just went in, set up and played live in the studio and they recorded us. “We didn’t know anything about studios or production or engineering. “We literally went in and played as if it was a live gig,” Butler said. It was quite the opposite.”Ĭompared to the single day Black Sabbath had to record their first album, six days seemed like a luxury.įortunately, they had played some of the songs on the road, so when the stepped into the studio they acted on instinct. We didn’t feel like rock stars or anything. That brought us closer together and made us more determined to be successful. And our friends used to laugh at the idea that we’d ever be successful at what we were doing. “Our families had no nope in us whatsoever of ever making anything of ourselves,” Butler said.
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