
Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler Begins Work on Autobiography
“I started writing a memoir for my grandkids to read,” bassist says, “and that’s been fun going through stuff — old times and growing up in Birmingham [England] and all that"

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“I started writing a memoir for my grandkids to read,” bassist says, “and that’s been fun going through stuff — old times and growing up in Birmingham [England] and all that"

Hear epic live “Heaven and Hell” from new reissue of band’s classic 1980 reboot

With a new box set offering insights into one of the band’s most pivotal albums, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward look back on how they made a drug-fueled masterpiece

Recording features Geoff Nicholls on bass as well as alternate lyrics and guitar solos

This 1989 performance of the Ronnie James Dio–era classic was filmed in Russia on the ‘Headless Cross’ tour

Band unearths rarities and previously unreleased tracks for deluxe editions of their two Eighties albums with Ronnie James Dio

Outtakes, studio banter, and live recordings fill out extra discs of group’s drug-fueled masterpiece

Cover will appear on upcoming comp Vol. 4 [Redux], which features new interpretations of every song from Sabbath’s 1972 classic

“He was so humble and so nice,” the guitarist says of his onetime tourmate and longtime friend. “He was just genuinely a great person”

“He changes his mind every hour,” the Prince of Darkness said on his SiriusXM channel