Black Sabbath: To Knock OR Not To Knock The Rock
Keith Altham, NME, 14 April 1973
WHEN IT COMES to obvious targets for critical assassinations, then Black Sabbath are sitting ducks very loud, very basic, very brash. And now at an internationally successful level which leaves them waving their eight little legs invitingly in the air for the mean-minded reviewer to pull off one by one.
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