Coming at the very end of the late
60's, Black Sabbath were the polar opposite of a lot of the hippy flower
power movement: four rough-arsed blokes from Birmingham playing a very
distinctive brand of rock (not overtly blues or progressive) and taking
it overseas like the four horsemen of the apocalypse. In September 1970,
just two days after Paranoid was thrusted into UK record shops, Sabbath
arrived in Paris to deliver an unholy massacre of sludging riffs and
slamming drums. Performed at L’Olympia, Paris on 19th December 1970 for
Belgian TV show Pop Shop, Sabbath sound like no other, yet more
importantly, they are about to change the face of rock music forever.
Their set is filled with an intoxicating, incendiary mix of foreboding
power that announces the arrival of Paranoid and the birth of heavy
metal as we know it. Timeline revisits this groundbreaking concert with a
fully restored and professionally remastered original broadcast.
Presented with background notes and timeline photos. 1. Intro/Paranoid /
2. Hand Of Doom/Rat Salad / 3. Iron Man / 4. Guitar Intro / 5. Black
Sabbath / 6. N.I.B. / 7. Behind The Wall Of Sleep/Jazz Improvisation /
8. War Pigs / 9. Fairies Wear Boots