Black Sabbath: Nobody But The Public Digs Sabbath
Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 30 January 1971
THERE WOULD seem to be a lot of unnecessary resentment over Black Sabbath's success in this business. And even outside it by those bastions of public musical taste who regard any kind of youthful success on an inflationary scale as some kind of obscene hype.
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