From Birmingham Basements to Global Breakdown: How Black Sabbath Became the UN’s Unofficial Anxiety Anthem
Ozzy’s Lullaby Goes Global: How Four Brummies from the Black Country Accidentally Invented the Soundtrack to Modern Dystopia By the time the first distorted chord of “Black Sabbath” crawled out of Tony Iommi’s amputated fingertips in 1970, the planet was already busy rehearsing its own apocalypse. Vietnam was on television nightly, the Cold War had…