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Into the Void

From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond

by Geezer Butler
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A Rough Trade Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestseller The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time. From the very beginning, Geezer Butler was at the heart of their success. He named the group, provided the bass behind their distinctive sound and wrote the lyrics that resonated so powerfully with fans around the world. At long last, Geezer is ready to tell his side of the Sabbath story, from early days as a scrappy blues quartet through to the many lineup changes, the record-breaking tours and the international hell-raising with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward. Featuring Geezer's candid reflections on his working-class childhood in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant and his fascination with horror, religion and the occult, Into the Void reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend, while holding nothing back. Like Geezer's bass lines and the story of Black Sabbath themselves, Into the Void is original, dramatic and one hell of a ride.

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  • Release date

    June 8, 2023

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780008476489

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780008476489
      • File size: 7690 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 15, 2023
      Black Sabbath bassist Butler recounts his unlikely route from hardscrabble childhood to international rock fame in this intermittently revealing and frequently off-putting debut memoir. Born in 1949 Aston, England, to hardworking Irish Catholic parents in a household too poor to afford toilet paper, Butler was drawn to music early on. He built a guitar from a carpentry kit and began playing it around age 10, nurturing dreams of becoming a professional musician. He teamed up with friend Roger Hope to form the band Rare Breed in 1967; singer Ozzy Osbourne joined a few months later. In 1968, Osbourne and Butler left Rare Breed and joined drummer Bill Ward and guitarist Tommy Iommi to form Black Sabbath. Butler traces the band’s ups and downs, including struggles to get booked and their fallout with a cheating manager, and recalls Osbourne’s habit of depositing his waste wherever he felt like it. While the wealth of behind-the-scenes detail may prove tantalizing to some, others will be turned off by the author’s creepier anecdotes (at age six, he dug up a buried pet dog to cut it open and look for its soul) and hyperbole (“Sabbath must be the most successful bunch of outsiders in music history”). This is best suited for diehard fans.

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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