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I loved every song performed by Queen. It is a great loss Freddy Mercury's death. This very special Blu-ray (remastered version) is the main gate to my old flashback times. The SHOW MUST GO ON and, by the way, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? That's it!

I am a huge fan of queen, and you'll love this new blu-ray version of one of their concerts. this is a must see for true "Queen" fanatics. and if you don't have a bluray player, u must get one to experience full on high definition your missing that regular DVD doesn't.

This is an excellent concert that was shot before the days of their decline (in my opinion), which was the synth-filled sounds of the eighties. This concert DVD captures the magic of Queen at their greatest. A must-buy!!

If you're slightly interested in this, buy it. Stunningly clear video and sound and a great performance by one of the best concert bands ever. I wish more concert videos were shot like this

I strongly recommend you to buy this product. It has a very good sound and video quality considering the age of the footage. Also it features some comments made by Roger Taylor and Brian May. This is one of those concerts you don't wanna miss. R.I.P Freddie Mercury

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Black Sabbath's Paranoid (1970) is...well, a classic. Really no more can be said, though I will elaborate. The music is hard and heavy and even mellow at times, but all eight of the tracks on this album will fit your dark moods. The lyrics are dark and evil. The first track to the last, it's all awesome. Such classics as War Pigs/Luke's Wall, Paranoid, Planet Caravan, Iron Man, Electric Funeral, Hand Of Doom, Rat Salad, and Jack The Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots are songs that have stood the test of time and will continue to stand the test of time because hard rock and heavy metal will never go away. This album (and this band for that matter) have been hugely influential to so many artists in the last four decades, even artists in other genres. This album is considered by many to be Black Sabbath's best album, though they do have many other great albums that can claim that title. Personnally, it's at least my second favorite, maybe my favorite. If you wanna rock, buy this album. You'll be so glad you did. This stuff is way better than some of the stuff that's out there these days. Trust me - you'll wear this CD out by playing it so much.

BRING BACK THE PAST'' THOSE'S LATE NIGHT PARTY RIDES YA!! GOOD TO HEAR THE PAST.

I've never really been a fan of this band, I thought the act was "cartoonish" and simple minded. But now at 50+ years old I'm learning to play guitar and this music is really fun and easy to play. These songs are easy for a beginner to play and people know them. Buy the CD listen 50 times over then buy the sheet music and have fun with this mindlessly stupid and loud music.

There's different metalheads out there. Those who appreciate all the real metal whether it's heavy as hell, or slower than the heavy stuff. Then there's the fake modern kids who think Black sabbath are too slow compared to the metalcore deathcore crap they listen to. And actually accused them of not having talent. Let me tell you something, Black sabbath are heavier than Suicide silence, they are heavier than Job for a cowboy, waaaaay heavier than Bring me the hairspray, heavier than life can get. And talent, out of this planet compared to those bands. I'm serious, it's sad how good music got turned into a big scene from all genres especially metal. So you think you're metal? without sabbath there wouldn't be. Any real band you listen to, will always list Black sabbath as an influence whether it's Judas priest, Slayer, Maiden, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, and even the Smashing pumpkins. Yes they had blues influence but it was NOT blues, it was harder rocking metal. As you should know, there was earlier bands such as blue cheer and even the beatles who first gave us a taste of early metal. But sabbath really was the first heavy metal band. And if you look at my previous horrible reviews, you'll see there was some metalcore deathcore, and probably even some slipknot that I painfully admit i USED to like. Sorry for that, guess i was blinded by that dark force. But without Sabbath there wouldn't be that crap either. Good music also leads to rip off bands who want some money. This is not a review telling you how the music is, because we all know it's insanely good. But telling you you're no metalhead without having Paranoid or not listening to sabbath both Ozzy and dio days. Early days prefer tough. But of course some posers listen to it claiming to be metal but they are really giving a bad name to it. I'm just a metal punk fan who experiments with good music and this is metal!

The sophmore album by Black Sabbath, perhaps deemed by all metal heads as a timeless head banging masterpiece. Throughout the Ozzy years with Sabbath, no album epitemizes the band more than this record. Although many think War Pigs posseses political overtones, rest assured, the words were changed at the request of the record label because of the true gloomy nature of the lyrics, listen to the true version of this song on Ozzy's "The Ozz Man Cometh". Paranoid, the riffs, the sound, the music often imitated, never duplicated, Sabbath's anthom if you will. Rat Salad, a true unappreicated work of musical genious, Bill Ward on the drums-WOW. Planet Caravan, a haunting melody, with grizzly overtones, Sabbath at their best. In the annals of metal, few if any, will ever stack up to this album, and history will continue to truely designate Black Sabbath as the "Fathers of Heavy Metal" Hail to the Sabb's and their legion of fans...Never Stop Rockin!

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Great album,perhaps Paranoid shaves it.The cover picture is the mill at Mapledurham village in Oxfordshire in England.Its a backwater of the Thames and its now been restored as a working mill.Spent a lot of my childhood playing round that area.

I won't add much to the reviews here except to say that this is an absolutely great album - as well as being historically significant in the extreme. BS was creating a new musical archetype, and they pull it off with flying colors. Every single track on this album is strong, and it is best to listen to the entire album to appreciate their achievement. A word about the cover: don't stare at it before bed. It looks like it was literally taken in someone's nightmare.

Its really hard to review this album when so much has already has already been said. This was the first recording controact that the band was able to get after "touring" in the most liberal since of the word for over a year, getting marginal attention. You can claim that the accident that caused Tony Iomi to lose his fingertips causing him to lower his guitar, or the hard lives that the members lead, the sarcastic apporach that lead them to believe that they needed a gimmick that just happened to coincide with their tallents, but this is the birth of heavy metal. It wasn't until their next album that the more consitant metal album would really be forged, so a lot of new age metal fans have complained that this album doesn't seem hard enough, as there is still a lot of rythem and blues left over from their previous act, but it is still very well done. The two stand out tracks are the title Black Sabbath, which is legitimately creepy, that begins with the devils triangle and was inspired by a real life seeing of a spirit. You can say that with all the hippie stuff that was going around in the late sixties and early seventies that they were a call back to reality of the harder things in life as well as a darker spiritual side to confront the moral conseravatives that came before. I know that a lot of people found the original cover art of the girl in the woods to be really kreepy. It does conjure up some Manson images that does really say what it needs to. Not sure if metal would have existed without later efforts, but the ground work is all here. I suggest getting a new remaster. Because of their lack of experience in a studio some of the older versions of this album suffer in sound quality, but the remaster brings a lot back.

Forty years on, its time to put this band in its proper light. The doomy circus act of Ozzy Ozborne may have made Black Sabbath the fathers of metel. But there is a reason this band was one of the first four or five to be signed to Vertigo, Englands premire progressive labal in 1969. Sure, the gloom theatrics of the title track make this a fright night to scare little kids and old ladies. But in 1970, even this was inventive. For all the peace love flowers and protest, there were fat, ugly, freeky beer drinking kids with limited prospects all over the world. These guys did not join the counterculture: they were in it the day they were born. Giving them guitars and setting them loose on Strawberry Alarm love love love Pepper rock was a geniuinely scary prospect, and they made genuinely scary music. No one had heard anything like it. Music was not supposed to SOUND like that. But it is: the open spaces gave Geezer Butler's bass and Tony Iommi's guitar plenty of room. The cornerstone of early Sabbath is blues, but this music almost worked as jazz. Simply put: These guys were fantastic players, and streched out over the wide chords like modal jazz musicians. Iommi sailing over the top of Butler's chunky bass and Bill Wards drums almost was like Coltrane working over Elivn Jones and Jimmy Garrison: get a great soloist, pick a few chords, and GO! So much has happened since 1970 that the thunder and fright seems nieve today, and Ozborn is now the cute burnout on TV, not the scary kid with no direction and a witchy bucket of PISSED! We forget how innovative and different this was: this stuff was dismissed all too quickly in 1970 and now has become a textbook of metal moves. Metal is now a stage show, not the exitential statement it was when this album was realeased on Vertigo--which put its best foot forward with Manford Mann and Juicy Lucy as well as Sabbath--so long ago

This is a perfect Sabbath album, and I think it's their best. It still has that bluesy feel to it. I call it "Evil Blues." Worth every penny.

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I put off buying this DVD for the longest time because of some of the bad reviews on here. Let me just say I wish I would have ignored all of them, because I really love this DVD. Yes, they interrupt the concert footage to do interviews. So what? I found the interviews very interesting, everybody was very relaxed and spoke from the heart. Yeah, they could have put the interviews at the end of the songs, so as not to interrupt the songs. But, overall, I really enjoyed it and think any true Sabbath fan will as well.

I cannot understand these reviews complaining about being interrupted. The songs are played out as the four members are sitting around talking about the band history.Why the need to watch Ozzy and all sing and play on stage is beyond me.This is the same complaint on Traffic's Last Great Traffic Jam DVD.Get over it! This one is Black Sabbath.

What a terrible production DVD with these interviews interrupted the concert ! Ozzy, Tony..... please for God's sake, get this concert remastered again without interviews and reproduce to the market. A refund for this DVD who purchased ?? A big joke !

Very good but les talking are more LIVE songs would have been great, they cut off some great live meterial!

I've had this DVD since it came out and haven't watched it in years. I just pulled it back out and remembered why. I am reading through all these other reviews and everyone says the same thing. The interview interruptions are unforgivable. Don't get me wrong, I love a good documentary and I will watch one about a band I don't even like, like Nirvana, just to learn the history and hear the characters tell their stories. This could have been a magnificent DVD if they had allowed all the songs to play though uninterrupted and save all the interviews for in between or a separate disc. It's great to hear Bill tell the story of the opium-induced title for NIB, BUT NOT DURING THE SONG. If anyone who has anything to do with Sabbath (SHARON!!!) is reading this, please go back to the drawing board and do this video right. Also, why 1999? Isn't there footage from the TRUE 1997 Reunion shows???

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I am a collector. So, I had to have this and it's a good documentary. Really cool to watch. If your a new fan and want to get an overview of how the started. This is a good one to get. Enjoy!

The footage on this isn't too bad. Some great songs, however there could be some better ones as well. It is a must have for SABBATH fans. There is an interview with the old manager that is pretty insightful. Lots of little tid bits that none of us would have ever known about early SABBATH history. There is a cool story about OZZY beating up a police officer when he was younger. The sound quality is great, except its not really in wide screen. It appears as if production added some cheesy looking black bars to the top of the screen. Drummers will love all of the close ups of BILL WARD pounding on his set.

It was great seeing, firsthand, the early Black Sabbath days, before the split up, fighting and he said, he said! I loved it!

I bought this video on VHS over 10 years ago and nearly wore it out. Great footage of the original Sabath line - up. We get to hear a new song called "War Pigs" from the "new album", with Bill Ward playing a single bass drum kit. The whole band wears jeans and sneakers in early footage and in a few short years Bill has a double bass and the band is wearing platform shoes w/satin (?) pants. This is the best overview of Sabbath from the 70's. The interviews are apparently from the era before the Reunion when apparently they didn't anticipate Ozzy returning. It's actually a pleasure hearing the interviews with Tony and Geezer without Ozzy's big mouth. Another great thing about this video is that the interviews are in between songs not during them and now that it's on DVD you can actually skip over the parts that you don't like. Also includes bonus track "A Hard Road" not on the VHS version. Tony and Geezer tell Ozzy stories and reminince about the early days. Personal favorite is the one about Ozzy beating up a doped up fan who was beating up his little boy in the audience. Overall, it seems short and will make you want to rewind (skip backward) to hear it again. This isn't one of those documentaries that drags on forever (e.g. Some Kind of Monster - ugh), but rather keeps you watching and holds your interest. Also it doesn't contain any back biting or bad mouthing just good natured remininces from Tony and Geezer.

I have had this video now for almost 10 years, and it is now available on DVD. But to this date, there is no DVD that even compairs to this one as far as the history and footage shown. The live videos and rare tunes played in this documentary is worth every penny i originally paid for it. I still can't believe the footage from Ontario motor Speedway in 1974, showing the massive crowd that Sabbath played, just spectacular. This video covers through early 1978, and touches on Ozzy leaving, but you'll need tape two to see that. On DVD, the 1978 year is completed on DVD 1 ending with "a hard road" and ozzy leaving. So this is a must have for any sabbath fan, and don't foget to buy the Black sabbath story Volume 2 to complete the set.

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If you are an Ozzy freak, then I am very sure that you will probably not like much of this DVD. Here are my gripes with Volume 2: 1) The story is a little inaccurate. I forgot to note in my other review that in Volume 1, there is absolutely no discussion about Dave Walker filling in for Ozzy before he returned for Never Say Die. That period is virtually non-existent in everyone's mind. Same thing here for Volume 2 - there is no mention of Geezer Butler temporarily quitting during the work for Heaven and Hell, leaving Geoff Nicholls and Craig Gruber open as candidates for the bass slot. Although they are important, I don't think that Dave Donato or Ray Gillen are really worth spending elaborate amounts of time on since they only recorded demos with the group (with Ray touring), but the fact that Glenn Hughes is not shown in the opening credits and is barely mentioned is downright criminal. I personally love Seventh Star, so watching the video for No Stranger To Love is fine with me. I think it's a great song and a great video. Plus there were all of the other numerous line-up changes - don't forget about Eric Singer, Dave Spitz, Bob Daisley; etc. 2) There needs to be full, uninterrupted videos - only on YouTube do they have uncut versions of Neon Knights, Die Young, the uncensored version of Trashed, Zero The Hero and the video for TV Crimes. 3) Just as the Volume 4 album was not mentioned in the first DVD, why is there no mention of Mob Rules? I really have mixed feelings about Tony Martin - he has a great voice and he really did an awesome job of singing all of the classics live. Everyone wrote him off as a Dio wanna-be, but there is hardly any similarity between the two. He also wrote a lot of great songs with the band - the only thing is that they are generally stuck between lesser quality songs on each album that he was on. Plus, Geoff's keyboards are given far too much attention which makes Sabbath sound a little bit lighter and dare I say, fluffier? I really think that this should've been the start of Tony Iommi's solo career because those records (except for Headless Cross) are really Sabbath in name only. But I like the video for Feels Good To Me - watching it now, it has a nice retro 90's feel to it. More interviews with Cozy Powell would've been nice as well. There really should be a Volume 3 (maybe even 4?) done next to cover the post-Dio reunion, Cross Purposes, the short lived return of Bill Ward in South America and the nail in the coffin - Forbidden.

Like I said about part I. If your a collector like me. You'll buy it and enjoy it. If your a few fan. You'll enjoy it. If your picky. I wouldn't buy it. Your not going to enjoy it and feel that you should've gotten more. It's a documentary, not a concert DVD. So, it's going to be someone vision of the band. Not yours. I enjoyed it. Could it have been better? Sure. They always can. Iron Maiden "Early Years" is great. This is not as good as that because it's not done by the band themselves. It's the Label's documentary.

I just got this. I'm a huge Black Sabbath fan as well as a Dio fan. I thought there would be a lot of good stuff from that period. There was some, but not enough. Most of it was interviews from people I didn't know were in the band. Part 1 of the Black Sabbath story was awsome. This part falls far short.

I have had this tape for almost 10 years now, and nothing has come along that even gets close to the material on this tape. It is now available on DVD. One difference with the DVD is that Volume 2 starts with the dio years, whereas the VHS starts with "a hard road" and the end of the Ozzy years, which the DVD collection put on volume one. This set covers the Dio years and the post Dio years with Ian Gillen, Glenn hughes, and Tony Martin, ending with the return of Dio and the Dehumanizer album. This set was put out originally at the time of the release of the dehumanizer album, unfortunately Sabbath was pretty well depleted in popularity at that time. So this is a must have for the sabbath fans. I just wish they would release at some point a volume three, to include the post De-humanizer years and the reunion, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

From viewing this DVD for the first time,I can NOW remember WHY I don't usually flip over that many DVD releases.I mean,this Story Of Black Sabbath is like a bad joke.It's got some good footage,but it should have had much more of Dio and Ian Gillan.Never cared for vocalist Tony Martin at all,but the clip here for "Headless Cross" isn't half bad.As for the songs performed with Dio,which were "Die Young","Neon Knights" and "TV Crimes",they should have completely edited the interview DURING the dang song!Those first two,I believe I saw them on Don Kirshner way back when.A total of 45 minutes of the music segment,plus several 'waste of time' extras.For Sabbath die-hards and completists only.Sure glad this DVD didn't cost me much.