Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath Volume 4
Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, November 1972
IT'S EARLY 1965. Suppose, just for once, that folk-rock never happens. Instead the English Invasion proceeds to its logical conclusions and rather than marking the effective end of the era, 'Help' and'Satisfaction' mark the beginning of the second English wave.
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