Geezer Butler

English bassist (born 1949)

Geezer Butler

Butler performing with Deadland Ritual in 2019

Background information
Birth name| Terence Michael Joseph Butler
Born|  (1949-07-17) 17 July 1949 (age 76)[1]
Aston, Birmingham, England
Genres|

* Heavy metal
* doom metal
* blues rock
* hard rock

Occupations|

* Musician
* songwriter

Instruments|

* Bass guitar
* keyboards

Years active| 1967–2025
Formerly of|

* Black Sabbath
* Ozzy Osbourne
* GZR
* Geezer Butler Band
* Heaven & Hell
* Deadland Ritual

Website| geezerbutler.com

Musical artist

Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949)[1] is an English retired musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell, GZR, Ozzy Osbourne, and Deadland Ritual.[2]

## Early life

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Butler adopted the nickname "Geezer" at an early age. "It came because when I was at school, my brother was in the army, and he was based with a lot of Cockneys. And people in London call everybody a 'geezer.' [It means] just a man — like, 'Hello, mate.' It's just like somebody calling you 'dude' over here (in the United States). In England, it'd be 'geezer.' So my brother used to come home from leave from the army, and he'd be going, 'Hello, geezer. How are you, geezer?' So because I had looked up to my brother when I was about seven years old, I'd go to school calling everybody a geezer. So that's how I got cursed with it."[3]

Butler grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family, the son of James and Mary Butler. He had six siblings.[4] His father had served in the Royal Scots Regiment and later settled in Birmingham, where he worked for an engineering company. Mary had worked as a nanny in her younger years and became a housewife after marrying James in 1929.[4] Both of his parents were born in Dublin.[4][5] The family had seven children and were poor, typically having "no money whatsoever".[6] He was born in the family house on Victoria Road in the Aston district of Birmingham, a house that had been damaged by Luftwaffe bombs during the Second World War. When he was just one day old, his sister Eileen tried to toss him out a bedroom window in a fit of jealousy.[4]

Butler has said that he enjoyed an "incredibly loving, happy childhood".[4] The family home had no telephone, hot water or bathroom, and considered itself lucky to have their own outside toilet.[4] Two of Butler's older brothers had been called upon to serve in the army and Butler feared that he would be next. However, mandatory national service was ended in the United Kingdom a couple of years before he was due to be conscripted.[6]

At the age of ten, Butler passed the eleven plus examination and was accepted by Birmingham's Holte Grammar Commercial School in 1960. Learning English literature such as Shakespeare furthered his love of reading, and he says "I never went a day without reading something." He credits this education, along with his vivid imagination, for the composition skills he would later utilise as Black Sabbath's lyricist.[4] He was later heavily influenced by the writing of Aleister Crowley as a teenager.[5]

By his late teens, he had stopped attending Mass. He cited a loss of belief, and feels that everyone should sooner or later decide for themselves what to believe in. By the end, Butler was "going to Mass every Sunday just to take a look at all the nice girls that were going there", he recalled years later.[6] After growing his hair long as a teenager, he would encounter a nun every Sunday at Mass who found it humorous to refer to Butler as "miss", and he soon decided to never go back.[4]

Butler became obsessed with The Beatles and The Kinks, and later Cream and Jimi Hendrix. When The Beatles appeared on a Birmingham television program called Thank Your Lucky Stars in January 1963, Butler waited outside the studio to get a glimpse of them. It was here that he met another Beatles' fan, John "Ozzy" Osbourne, for the first time.[4]

## Career

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Butler in 1970

Butler joined his first band, the Ruums,[7] named after an Arthur Porges science fiction story, in 1965. His first professional gig was with the Ruums at the Parochial Hall in Erdington, where they performed covers of various Merseybeat bands. The Ruums would perform only a handful of local gigs before breaking up, but it was long enough for Butler to decide that he wanted to devote his life to music.[4]

In late 1967, Butler formed the band The Rare Breed, with an acquaintance named Ozzy Osbourne soon joining as lead vocalist. At that time, Butler was dating a girl named Georgina who lived near Tony Iommi, and Iommi's earliest memories of Butler involved seeing him walking past his house every day to visit her. Georgina would later become Butler's first wife.[4] Later, Iommi and Butler became acquainted when their bands played at a nearby nightclub.[5] Separated after The Rare Breed disbanded, Butler and Osbourne reunited to form the blues foursome Polka Tulk, along with guitarist Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, both of whom had recently left a local blues band called Mythology. Polka Tulk was soon rebranded as Earth, but a band already existed in the small-time English circuit with the same name, so they were forced to change the name again to avoid confusion. Inspired by the popular Boris Karloff horror film of the same name, Butler suggested the name Black Sabbath in early 1969.[8]

Inspired by John Lennon, Butler played rhythm guitar in his pre-Sabbath days, including with The Rare Breed. When Sabbath was formed, Iommi made it clear that he did not want to play with another guitarist, so Butler moved to bass.[9] According to Butler, "I'd never played bass until I was on stage at the first gig that we played. Borrowed the bass guitar off one of my friends and it only had three strings on it."[10] Butler lists Jack Bruce of Cream as his biggest influence as a bassist. Iommi described Butler as being "from another planet" in the band's early days; he took LSD, wore Indian hippie dresses, and was very peaceful.[5] At the time Black Sabbath was formed, Butler had been hired by a Birmingham steel company to train in the accounting department, and this business experience resulted in him managing the band's finances in the early days.[5]

In the summer of 1977, drummer Bill Ward visited Butler at his Worcestershire home to inform him he had been fired from Black Sabbath after a band meeting, telling him that Iommi and Osbourne questioned his commitment. Butler said he was "pissed off" yet relieved, and spent the following two or three weeks resting and getting healthy, not giving much thought to what he would do next. He then received a phone call from Ward inviting him to rehearsals which were starting the next day. Upon returning to the band, Butler says Iommi and Osbourne both denied any involvement in his firing, with Ward claiming he had merely been the messenger. He says he was never offered an explanation. The event changed Butler's attitude towards Black Sabbath and he was never able to completely trust his bandmates again, saying "a little bit of me died back then". He has said that he did not really want to return but did so only because he had nothing else going on musically.[4]

Butler with Black Sabbath at Back to the Beginning in 2025

After Black Sabbath fired Osbourne in 1979, Butler also briefly left the band to deal with the divorce from his first wife. The 1980 album Heaven and Hell was recorded with bassist Craig Gruber but Butler returned to the band at the last minute and re-recorded the bass parts prior to release.[11] He again left the band in 1984 after touring in support of their 1983 album, Born Again, although he returned months later as the band attempted a comeback with vocalist David Donato.

In 1988, Butler joined the backing band of his former Sabbath bandmate Osbourne to take part in the No Rest for the Wicked World Tour. He rejoined Black Sabbath in 1991 for the reunion of the Mob Rules line-up, but again quit the group after the Cross Purposes tour in 1994.[8]

In 1995 Butler again joined Osbourne's band to perform on the Ozzmosis album.[12] After recording Ozzmosis, he formed G/Z/R, issuing Plastic Planet in 1995.[13] His next solo album, Black Science, followed in 1997. Butler returned to Sabbath once more for the 1997 edition of Ozzfest, and remained with the band for the remainder of their career. In 2005 he released Ohmwork, his third solo album. In October 2006 it was announced that Butler, along with Tony Iommi, would be reforming the Dehumanizer-era Black Sabbath line-up with Vinny Appice and Ronnie James Dio, under the name Heaven & Hell to differentiate between the reunited touring band fronted by Osbourne, and the Dio-fronted version of the band.[14]

He rejoined Iommi and Osbourne to record 13 and toured in support of the album from 2012 to 2014. He and Black Sabbath later embarked on their final tour which began in January 2016, and concluded in February 2017.

In 2023, Butler published his autobiography Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond. He also provided the narrating voice for the audio-book version.[15] Later, he made a brief appearance during Foo Fighters' performance in Birmingham in June 2024.[16]

Butler reunited with the original lineup of Black Sabbath at Back to the Beginning in July 2025.[17]

## Style and legacy

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Butler with Black Sabbath in 1983.

Butler learned guitar as a teenager on an old acoustic that had only two strings. He could not afford the new strings needed to play chords, so he taught himself to play melody lines on the two strings. He says that due to this limitation he developed a "very strange style" which would later serve him well when he switched to bass guitar after forming Black Sabbath.[4] Later, his older brother Jimmy gave him a brand new Rosetti acoustic guitar that cost him two weeks salary, an act of kindness that Butler says changed his life forever. With a proper instrument, Butler learned chords from the Bert Weedon book Play in a Day and saved enough money for a new Höfner Colorama electric guitar and Bird Golden Eagle amplifier. Soon after, he joined his first band.[4]

Butler is noted for his melodic playing, and as being one of the first bassists to use a wah pedal and to down-tune his instrument (from the standard E-A-D-G to the lower C#-F#-B-E), as exemplified on Black Sabbath's Master of Reality album, to match Iommi who had started tuning his guitar to C# (a minor third down).[9] During the band's Ozzy Osbourne era, Butler wrote most of the band's lyrics, drawing heavily upon his fascination with religion, science-fiction, fantasy and horror, and musings on the darker side of human nature that posed a constant threat of global annihilation.[8]

Butler is regarded as one of the most influential bassists in heavy metal. Billy Sheehan of Mr. Big said: "He's a founding father of a whole genre of music and a man who really set the bar early on to be such an integral part of the sound and song structure of Sabbath".[18] In Mick Wall's biography of Iron Maiden entitled Run to the Hills, founder Steve Harris recalls: "I distinctly remember trying to play along to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" – at first I just could not get it. I threw the guitar on my bed and walked out in a huff, but the next day I came back, picked it up and played it all the way through note-for-note! Once I got going, I started getting into bass-lines with a bit more subtlety to them."

Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, who defined him his "number 1 influence," stated: "All true metal bassists look up to Geezer as a pioneer and Godfather of our chosen instrument. The best, ever."[19] Rex Brown of Pantera and Kill Devil Hill asserted: "He's a legend. He's everything. Geezer is so much of an influence on me.[18] Other bassists such as Type O Negative's Peter Steele,[20] Minutemen's Mike Watt,[21] and Metallica's Cliff Burton[22] have also listed Butler as an influence.

In 2020, he was ranked 21st in Rolling Stone's list 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time.[23]

One week before their farewell Back to the Beginning concert, Butler and the other original members of Black Sabbath were each made Freemen of the City of Birmingham.[24]

## Personal life

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Butler performing with Heaven & Hell in 2007

Butler met his first wife Georgina at a school dance at Holte Grammar School in Birmingham as a teenager.[4] The couple divorced in 1980. Butler had already met his second wife, Gloria, on 16 September 1978 just prior to Black Sabbath's concert at the Checkerdome in St. Louis, Missouri. Gloria later was manager for Heaven & Hell.[25] The Butlers also share their Los Angeles home with several cats, of whom he has posted pictures on his website.[26]

His oldest son, Biff Butler, was the vocalist for nu metal band Apartment 26. Butler's other son James earned a degree in social sciences from Oxford University and resides in London. Butler describes him as "very politically minded". "My youngest is extremely left-wing, and I think it's because he was brought up knowing wealth and money, whereas I was brought up having no money whatsoever. That's where the church came in and made up for the lack of money because everybody knew each other in the street and everybody used to help each other out", Butler said.[6]

Due to his love of animals, Butler became a strict vegetarian as a child and later became a vegan in the 1990s.[6][27] He had a pet dog named Scamp in the 1950s who he "got to love more than any human friend" and the family house was "full of pets". Upon discovering where meat came from, he resolved to never eat it again.[4] His mother was also a vegetarian.[6] Butler appeared in a promotional ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2009[27] and later urged fans to boycott Fortnum & Mason until they remove foie gras from their shelves. Butler said, "I've seen some outrageous things in my time, but watching those poor birds suffer simply so that their diseased livers can be sold on your shop floor is horrific!"[28]

Butler is a supporter of Aston Villa Football Club, and during Black Sabbath's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Butler is heard shouting "Up the Villa" as the members of the band left the stage. He has referred to AVFC as his "second religion" (after Catholicism) in his younger days[6] and in 2023 he said that the team had become his "only religion", having become disillusioned with the Catholic Church.[4] From the family house on Victoria Road in Aston, Butler could hear the roar of the crowd at nearby Villa Park, and he has said that hearing such cheering every week had a profound effect on him as a small child. He started attending games anytime he could and lists former Aston Villa star Peter McParland as his "all-time hero".[4]

According to Black Sabbath bandmate Ozzy Osbourne, Butler "never uses foul language".[29] A bin-man (refuse collector) had called him an "Irish cunt" when he was a small child, and he repeated the word at the family dinner table that evening, asking what it meant. His father told him that only ignorant people swear, and Butler was subsequently beaten with a belt. He says that to this day he seldom swears "despite spending thousands of days in the company of Ozzy Osbourne".[4]

Over the years, Butler has become disillusioned with politics, saying "For me, it's almost pointless voting anymore because it seems to be the same no matter what party or politics you stand for. It all seems corrupted to me. It's all the same old people that rule the world."[6] He has also expressed concern over the increasing level of control government has in people's lives. "Every time I go back to England, there are things that totally surprise me that you never think would happen in England, just all the CCTV everywhere. There seems to be so much control over people these days", he said in 2014.[6] He has similarly become completely disillusioned with religion, calling it "inherited brainwashing".[4]

In January 2015, Butler was briefly detained after a bar brawl in Death Valley, California and charged with misdemeanour assault, public intoxication and vandalism. He was released following detoxification and a citation.[30] In 2016 he opened up about the event: "This guy started mouthing off about something. He was, like, some drunken Nazi bloke. He [...] started going on about Jews and everything – Jews this, Jews that. My missus is Jewish and I'd just had enough, and me hand sort of met his chin. I whacked him one." Contrary accounts were given by other witnesses.[31]

In June 2023, he announced his retirement from performing.[32][33] He initially ruled out a Black Sabbath reunion, saying the band was "put to bed",[34] though a one-off reunion with the group was later announced in February 2025 and took place in July of that year.[35]

## Equipment

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Butler endorses Lakland basses and has his own signature model,[36] as well as DR Strings, EMG pick-ups, and Hartke amplifiers.[37]

## Discography

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Studio albums

* 1995: Plastic Planet (as "g//z/r")
* 1997: Black Science (as "geezer")
* 2005: Ohmwork (as "GZR")

### Ozzy Osbourne

[edit]

Studio albums

* 1995: Ozzmosis

EPs and live albums

* 1990: Just Say Ozzy
* 1993: Live & Loud ("Black Sabbath")

### Heaven & Hell

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Studio albums

* 2009: The Devil You Know

Live albums

* 2007: Live from Radio City Music Hall
* 2010: Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell

### Black Sabbath

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Studio albums

* 1970: Black Sabbath
* 1970: Paranoid
* 1971: Master of Reality
* 1972: Vol. 4
* 1973: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
* 1975: Sabotage
* 1976: Technical Ecstasy
* 1978: Never Say Die!
* 1980: Heaven and Hell
* 1981: Mob Rules
* 1983: Born Again
* 1992: Dehumanizer
* 1994: Cross Purposes
* 2013: 13

EPs and live albums

* 1982: Live Evil
* 1995: Cross Purposes Live
* 1998: Reunion
* 2013: Live... Gathered in Their Masses
* 2016: The End
* 2017: The End: Live in Birmingham

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## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ a b Geezer Butler (2021). "Get to Know Geezer". geezerbutler.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
2. ^ Blabbermouth (10 March 2021). "GEEZER BUTLER: 'DEADLAND RITUAL Is Dead'". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
3. ^ Polcaro, Rafael (21 October 2021). "Sabbath's Geezer Butler explains the origin of his nickname "Geezer"". Rock And Roll Garage. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Butler, Terence "Geezer" (2023). Into the Void. New York: Harper Collins. pp. 4–8\. ISBN 978-0-06-324250-0.
5. ^ a b c d e Iommi, Tony (2011). Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell With Black Sabbath. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81955-1.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Geezer Butler Discusses Veganism, Religion, Politics, Surveillance, and Life Lessons". bryanreesman.com. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
7. ^ "Geezer". metallian. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
8. ^ a b c Ankeny, Jason. "Biography–Geezer Butler". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
9. ^ a b "Artist profile-Geezer Butler". Ampeg. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
10. ^ "Black Sabbath goes back to its roots". Montrealgazette.com. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 12 July 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
11. ^ Hotten, Jon. "The Dio Years" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
12. ^ "Overview Black Science". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
13. ^ Jeffries, Vincent. "Overview Plastic Planet". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
14. ^ Monger, James Christopher. "Biography-Heaven & Hell". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
15. ^ "Black Sabbath Bassist Geezer Butler's 'Into The Void' Autobiography: Book Cover Unveiled". Blabbermouth.net. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
16. ^ Flash, Oprah (28 June 2024). "Surprise as Black Sabbath star joins Foo Fighters at Birmingham gig". BBC News. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
17. ^ "Photos of Ozzy Osbourne's final Black Sabbath concert before his death". USA TODAY. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
18. ^ a b "Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler Inspires Respect Among Peers at Bass Player Live Event". loudwire.com. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
19. ^ "Hartke Brings Together Music's Finest For All-Star Tribute To Geezer Butler". blabbermouth.net. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
20. ^ "Peter Steele Type O Negative late interview (12:22)". YouTube. 7 December 2019. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
21. ^ Edwards, Briony (13 October 2016). "Mike Watt's Top 5 Bassists". Louder Sound. Archived from the original on 10 December 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2025. "Some people are like 'yeah, it's all me, it was always me'. To say, like, 'No, you know what, this guy taught me stuff', John Entwistle, that was very kind of you. I have to say John Entwistle, he was one of those five. Actually, it was the England records – like Geezer Butler and Black Sabbath,  Trevor Boulder (sic) and David Bowie, John Entwistle and The Who – Live At Leeds, or any of those records, you can hear him so loud. These are my teachers!"
22. ^ Joel McIver, To live is to die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, p.86
23. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Jonathan Bernstein,David Browne,Jon Dolan,Brenna Ehrlich,David Fear,Jon Freeman,Andy Greene,Kory Grow,Elias Leight,Angie Martoccio,Jason Newman,Rob Sheffield,Hank Shteamer,Simon; Bernstein, Jonathan; Browne, David; Dolan, Jon; Ehrlich, Brenna; Fear, David; Freeman, Jon; Greene, Andy; Grow, Kory (1 July 2020). "The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 1 June 2024.`{{cite magazine}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
24. ^ "Black Sabbath awarded the Freedom of the City of Birmingham". Birmingham City Council. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
25. ^ Butler, Terence "Geezer" (2023). Into the Void. New York: Harper Collins. pp. 159–160\. ISBN 978-0-06-324250-0.
26. ^ "Photos :: The Official Geezer Butler Website". Geezerbutler.com. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
27. ^ a b "Geezer Butler Appears in Peta Ad as a Confirmed Vegan". Guitar World. 28 April 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2011. "[...] teamed up with peta2 [...] to shoot a brand-new pro-vegetarian ad featuring Butler [...] next to the tagline "I'm Geezer Butler, and I'm a Vegan.""
28. ^ "Black Sabbath's Geezer ButlerCalls for Foie Gras Boycott," Karrang Radio, 1 March 2013.
29. ^ Osbourne, Ozzy (2011). I Am Ozzy. I Am Ozzy. p. 134\. ISBN 978-0-446-57313-9. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
30. ^ "Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler Arrested Following Bar Brawl". Loudwire.com. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
31. ^ Hartmann, Graham (8 June 2016). "Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler Reveals 2015 Arrest Was For Punching A 'Drunken Nazi Bloke'". Loudwire. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
32. ^ BraveWords (13 June 2023). "BLACK SABBATH Bassist GEEZER BUTLER On Deciding To Retire - "I Didn't Realize How Hard Starting From Scratch Is; It Just Didn't Suit Me"". bravewords.com. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
33. ^ Laing, Rob (15 June 2023). "Geezer Butler rules out future gigs with Black Sabbath and explains retirement from touring in general". MusicRadar. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
34. ^ Colothan, Scott (14 June 2023). "Geezer Butler confirms his retirement and says Black Sabbath is still 'put to bed'". planetradio.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
35. ^ "Original BLACK SABBATH To Play Final Show In July, With METALLICA, SLAYER, PANTERA, Others Supporting". Blabbermouth.net. 5 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
36. ^ "Artist profile-Geezer Butler". Lakland. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
37. ^ EMG Inc. (26 March 2014). "Geezer Butler talks to EMGtv about new album, gear and Sabbath". YouTube. Retrieved 11 June 2024.

### Sources

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* Butler, Geezer (2023). Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-324252-4.

## External links

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Black Sabbath

* Geezer Butler
* Tony Iommi
* Ozzy Osbourne
* Bill Ward

* Dave Walker
* Ronnie James Dio
* Geoff Nicholls
* Craig Gruber
* Vinny Appice
* Ian Gillan
* Bev Bevan
* Ron Keel
* David Donato
* Eric Singer
* Gordon Copley
* Jeff Fenholt
* Dave Spitz
* Glenn Hughes
* Ray Gillen
* Tony Martin
* Cozy Powell
* Neil Murray
* Bobby Rondinelli

Studio albums|

* Black Sabbath
* Paranoid
* Master of Reality
* Vol. 4
* Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
* Sabotage
* Technical Ecstasy
* Never Say Die!
* Heaven and Hell
* Mob Rules
* Born Again
* Seventh Star
* The Eternal Idol
* Headless Cross
* Tyr
* Dehumanizer
* Cross Purposes
* Forbidden
* 13

Extended plays|

* The End

Live albums|

* Live at Last
* Live Evil
* Cross Purposes Live
* Reunion
* Past Lives
* Live at Hammersmith Odeon
* Live... Gathered in Their Masses
* The End: Live in Birmingham

Compilations|

* We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
* The Collection
* The Sabbath Stones
* Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978
* Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978
* Greatest Hits 1970–1978
* The Dio Years
* The Rules of Hell
* Greatest Hits
* Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath
* The Ultimate Collection
* Anno Domini 1989–1995

Unofficial albums|

* The Sabbath Collection
* The Ozzy Osbourne Years
* Under Wheels of Confusion
* The Best of Black Sabbath
* Club Sonderauflage

Singles|

* "Evil Woman"
* "The Wizard"
* "Paranoid"
* "Iron Man"
* "Children of the Grave"
* "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
* "Am I Going Insane (Radio)"
* "Neon Knights"
* "Trashed"
* "Psycho Man"
* "God Is Dead?"
* "End of the Beginning"

Other songs|

* "Black Sabbath"
* "N.I.B."
* "War Pigs"
* "Planet Caravan"
* "Hand of Doom"
* "Fairies Wear Boots"
* "Sweet Leaf"
* "Into the Void"
* "Changes"
* "Supernaut"
* "Hole in the Sky"
* "Symptom of the Universe"
* "Children of the Sea"
* "Heaven and Hell"

Videos|

* Never Say Die
* Black and Blue
* The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 1
* The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 2
* Cross Purposes Live
* The Last Supper
* Inside Black Sabbath - 1970–1992
* Hangin' with Heaven and Hell
* Live... Gathered in Their Masses
* Black Sabbath: The End of the End

Tours|

* Technical Ecstasy Tour
* Never Say Die! Tour
* Heaven & Hell Tour
* Mob Rules Tour
* Born Again Tour
* Ozzfest
* lineups
* Black Sabbath Reunion Tour
* The End Tour
* Back to the Beginning

Managers|

* Don Arden
* Patrick Meehan
* Wilf Pine

Related|

* Discography
* Members
* List of cover versions of Black Sabbath songs
* In These Black Days
* Nativity in Black
* Heaven & Hell
* tour
* The Devil You Know
* Bob Daisley
* Terry Chimes
* Jo Burt
* Laurence Cottle
* Rob Halford
* Mike Bordin
* Adam Wakeman
* Tommy Clufetos
* Brad Wilk
* Mythology
* Velvett Fogg
* GZR
* Rainbow
* Dio
* Deep Purple
* Electric Light Orchestra
* Kiss
* Badlands
* Whitesnake

* Category

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Heaven & Hell

* Ronnie James Dio
* Tony Iommi
* Geezer Butler
* Vinny Appice

Studio albums|

* The Devil You Know

Live albums|

* Live from Radio City Music Hall
* Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell

Singles|

* "Bible Black"

Tours|

* 2007 Tour
* Metal Masters Tour

Related articles|

* Black Sabbath
* The Dio Years
* The Rules of Hell
* Bill Ward
* Scott Warren
* Glenn Hughes
* Jørn Lande
* Members

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GZR

* Geezer Butler
* Pedro Howse
* Chad Smith
* Clark Brown

* Deen Castronovo
* Burton C. Bell
* Mario Frasca
* Lisa Rieffel

Studio albums|

* Plastic Planet (1995)
* Black Science (1997)
* Ohmwork (2005)

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Ozzy Osbourne

Studio albums|

* Blizzard of Ozz
* Diary of a Madman
* Bark at the Moon
* The Ultimate Sin
* No Rest for the Wicked
* No More Tears
* Ozzmosis
* Down to Earth
* Under Cover
* Black Rain
* Scream
* Ordinary Man
* Patient Number 9

Live albums|

* Speak of the Devil
* Tribute
* Live & Loud
* Live at Budokan
* Ozzy Live

Extended plays|

* Mr. Crowley Live EP
* Just Say Ozzy

Compilations/box sets|

* Best of Ozz
* Ten Commandments
* The Ozzman Cometh
* The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
* Prince of Darkness
* Memoirs of a Madman

Singles|

* "Crazy Train"
* "Mr. Crowley"
* "Flying High Again"
* "Over the Mountain"
* "Symptom of the Universe"
* "Paranoid"
* "Bark at the Moon"
* "Shot in the Dark"
* "No More Tears"
* "Mama, I'm Coming Home"
* "Changes"
* "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
* "Gets Me Through"
* "Dreamer"
* "In My Life"
* "I Don't Wanna Stop"
* "Not Going Away"
* "How?"
* "Under the Graveyard"
* "Ordinary Man"
* "It's a Raid"

Featured singles|

* "Close My Eyes Forever"
* "Hey Stoopid"
* "Shake Your Head"
* "Shock the Monkey"
* "N.I.B."
* "Stillborn"
* "Take What You Want"

Other songs|

* "Goodbye to Romance"
* "Suicide Solution"
* "I Don't Want to Change the World"
* "Hellraiser"

Concert tours|

* Blizzard of Ozz Tour
* Diary of a Madman Tour
* Speak of the Devil Tour
* Bark at the Moon Tour
* The Ultimate Sin Tour
* No Rest for the Wicked Tour
* No More Tours Tour
* Ozzfest
* Ozzfest lineups by year
* Merry Mayhem Tour
* Ozzy and Friends Tour
* No More Tours II
* Back to the Beginning

Band members|

| Guitarists|

* Randy Rhoads
* Bernie Tormé
* Brad Gillis
* Jake E. Lee
* Zakk Wylde
* Joe Holmes
* Gus G

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Bassists|

* Bob Daisley
* Rudy Sarzo
* Pete Way
* Phil Soussan
* Geezer Butler
* Mike Inez
* Robert Trujillo
* Jason Newsted
* Rob "Blasko" Nicholson

Drummers|

* Lee Kerslake
* Tommy Aldridge
* Carmine Appice
* Randy Castillo
* Deen Castronovo
* Mike Bordin
* Tommy Clufetos

Keyboardists|

* Adam Wakeman

Books|

* Ordinary People: Our Story
* I Am Ozzy
* Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy

Related articles|

* Discography
* Filmography
* Black Sabbath
* The Osbournes
* Savage Skies
* Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home

| Family members|

* Sharon Osbourne (2nd wife)
* Aimee Osbourne (daughter)
* Kelly Osbourne (daughter)
* Jack Osbourne (son)
* Don Arden (father-in-law)

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Performers|

* Black Sabbath
* Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward
* Blondie
* Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Debbie Harry, Frank Infante, Chris Stein, Gary Valentine
* Miles Davis
* Lynyrd Skynyrd
* Bob Burns, Allen Collins, Steve Gaines, Ed King, Billy Powell, Artimus Pyle, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant, Leon Wilkeson
* Sex Pistols
* Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious

Lifetime achievement|

* Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Italy
* Czech Republic
* Spain
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Finland

Artists|

* MusicBrainz
* Grammy Awards

People|

* DDB

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