While there werecertainly songs and albumsprecedingBlack Sabbaththat helped lay the groundwork for heavy metal, its true ground zero arrived on Friday 13 February, 1970 with those harrowing, downtuned first notes of Sabbath's legendary debut album ringing across the cosmos. Everything we know and...
Melvin played the guitar and sang liberal folk songs. The pattern would have been familiar - bohe- mian, creative, arty - except that it was even further removed from re- ality, Romanticism in its furthest decadence, being only an exhausted impersonation of poverty, rebellion, and artistic "...