47. Van Halen Regularly Blow Black Sabbath Off the Stage The summer of 1978 witnessed a major “changing of the guard” in heavy metal, when the style’s tired elder statesmen, Black Sabbath, headed out on tour in support of their poorly received eighth album, ‘Never Say Die,’ and wer...
Black Sabbath were just 18 months into their recording career and had notched three albums that are still regarded largely as untouchable over four decades later. Opening with perhaps the most famous cough in music, the band’s ode to marijuana, “Sweet Leaf,” kicks down the door with an a...