Black Sabbath: Sabbath Ready To Rejoin The Rock Machine
Dick Meadows, Sounds, 22 January 1972
IN THE black art of rock and roll Sabbath are masters. But the business of fame takes its toll in terms of exhaustion and it is the bands who work themselves almost to the death who suffer these demons worst.
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