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Black Sabbath: To Knock OR Not To Knock The Rock

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 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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