Random Drug-Fueled, Sordid Tales From Black Sabbath's Heyday That Prove Just How Unhinged They Really W (24 items)

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  (#1) They Spent More Money On Coke While Recording 'Vol 4' Than They Did Making The Album

  Black Sabbath was so enraptured with cocaine they included a paean to blow, entitled "Snowblind," on 1972's Vol. 4, a record that cost less to make than the band's coke habit while recording it. According to bassist Geezer Butler, the record came with a price tag of $60,000, while the snowstorm in which the band recorded cost $75,000. In fact, the band wanted to call the album Snowblind, in honor of their paean to coke, but the record label wouldn't let them. 

  As Ozzy explains:

  "For me, Snowblind was one of Black Sabbath's best-ever albums - although, the record company wouldn't let us keep the title, 'cos in those days cocaine was a big deal, and they didn't' want the hassle of a controversy."
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  (#2) No One Was Totally Sure Where All The Drugs Came From

  As Ozzy relates in his autobiography, I Am Ozzy:

  "Eventually we started to wonder where the f*ck all the coke was coming from. All we knew was that it arrived in the back of unmarked vans, packed inside cardboard boxes. In each box there were about thirty vials - ten across, three deep - and each one had a screw-on top, sealed with wax."
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  (#3) Tony Iommi Set Bill Ward On Fire For Fun While Recording 'Heaven and Hell'

  Drummer Bill Ward was instrumental in developing Sabbath's unique sound, and played some very interesting roles in the band. Ozzy Osbourne referred to him as his fellow "drug commando," while Tony Iommi once said "[Bill] was our outlet, the one everybody picked on. I used to do terrible things to him. I actually set him on fire once - honest to God." *record scratch* What?

  According to Iommi, during the recording of Heaven and Hell in late 1979 and early 1980, he set Ward on fire. He doesn't say why, only that he asked, "Can I set you on fire, Bill?" to which Ward responded, "Well, not now, not now."

  Iommi didn't push the issue, and forgot about it. An hour later, Ward said, "Well, I'm going home now. Do you still want to burn me, or what?" Iommi told Guitar World in 1992:

  "So I got this bottle of petrol, tipped it on Bill, set fire to him and -- voomph. I couldn't believe it! He went up like a Christmas tree. Well, he knew I was going to burn him, but he didn't know to what extent. He screamed and started rolling around on the floor. His clothes started burning and his socks melted -- the nylon socks stuck to his leg. I wasn't able to help him because I couldn't stop laughing.

  It was actually pretty serious; he had to go to the hospital. I felt really bad. He had third-degree burns on his arms and legs and everywhere. The next day his mother phoned me up and said, 'You balmy bastard. It's about time you grew up. Our Bill is going to have to have his leg off.' She exaggerated a bit. But things like that were a regular occurrence with Bill."
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  (#4) Ozzy Accidentally Poisoned Bill Ward By Spraying A Toxic Aerosol Substance On His Beaver Basher

  In 1972, while living in a Bel Air mansion and recording Vol. 4, Sabbath plowed through mountains of blow faster than Paula Deen churns out fried cheesecake. One night, drug commandos Ozzy and Bill Ward, soused out of their gourds, were sharing a fraternal piss side-by-side when the Prince of Darkness decided it was a good idea to spray Ward's war pig with an aerosol can he found lying around.

  Ozzy told Rolling Stone:

  "I see this aerosol can and squirt his dick with it. He starts screaming and falls down. I look at the can and it says, WARNING: DO NOT SPRAY ON SKIN - HIGHLY TOXIC. I poisoned Bill through his d*ck!"

  Interestingly, and perhaps symptomatic of years of cocaine abuse, Ozzy remembered the story very differently while writing his autobiography, I Am Ozzy:

  "[O]ne day, Tony gets this can of blue spray paint and sneaks around the other side of the railing, and when Bill starts pissing over the railing, he sprays his d*ck with it. You should have heard the scream, man. It was priceless. But then, two seconds later, Bill blacks out, falls headfirst over the railing, and starts rolling down the hillside...

  'Ah, he'll be all right,' I said.

  And he was, eventually.

  Although he did have a blue d*ck for a while."

  In the Rolling Stone interview, Iommi chimed in with another incident of Ward being seriously harmed by spray cans. 

  "Iommi: We sprayed Bill gold once. He was pissed drunk, so we painted and lacquered him. We never realized we could've killed him. 

  Osbourne: The coke was good when it was working. We used to sniff and jam for days, recording everything on big spools of tape. But it was the beginning of the end. Cocaine was the cancer of the band."

  As the poet Rick James once said, "Cocaine is a hell of a drug."
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  (#5) Tony Iommi Almost Puked From The Rancid Smell Of Pus Oozing From A Groupie's Hoo Ha

  When Sabbath came to the US on tour in the 1970s, they fornicated like wild beasts in heat, shoving their digits and dongs in every honey pot they could get their paws on. Though unable to control their bestial urges, the members of the band lived in constant fear of STDS; more specifically, of catching something American and giving it to their girlfriends or wives at home. 

  As Ozzy wrote in his autobiography:

  "When it was time to go back to England, were were all terrified of taking home an STD from one of the groupies and giving it to our other half. Catching some exotic diseases was always a big worry when we were in America. I remember one time during a particularly wild night at a hotel somewhere, Tony came running out of his room going, 'Aargh! My knob!My knob!' I asked him what was wrong, and he told me that he'd been messing around with this groupie when he looked down and saw all this yellow pus coming out of her. He thought he was about to die.

  'Did the pus smell funny?' I asked him.

  'Yeah,' he said, white in the face. 'I almost puked.'"
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  (#6) During The Band's Heyday, Ozzy Took A Dump In An Upscale Hotel Elevator, In Full View Of The Lobby

  During a 1992 interview with Guitar World, Tony Iommi was asked to tell a crazy story about Ozzy. The guitarist revealed the following, from the band's heyday in the 1970s:

  "I don't know - there' s so many. [chuckles] Wait, here's one. Actually, it's quite funny. We were all in an elevator in this real plush hotel, and Ozzy decides to take a crap. As he's doing it, the elevator is going down to the reception floor. The door opens suddenly - and there's Ozzy with his pants around his knees. And all these people in fur coats are just staring at him with their mouths open."
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  (#7) They Screwed "As Many Groupies As Possible" On Their First US Tour. But The Unlikelier Thing Was That They Were Thrown A Parade

  Discussing Black Sabbath's first US tour, Osbourne had fond memories of the band trying to screw as many groupies as possible, to make the most of the opportunity:

  "It's every British band's dream to play the States. When we got there finally, we f*cked as many groupies as we could. In San Francisco, they even had a Black Sabbath parade! Coming from Birmingham, England, where the f*ckin' sun never shines, it was magic to us." 
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  (#8) Ozzy Was So High And Drunk All The Time He Didn't Realize War Pigs Was About The Vietnam War

  "War Pigs" is the lead off track from Paranoid, Sabbath's second record, which many consider to be the band's ultimate masterpiece (and even the best metal album of all time). Before the album was released, the band intended to call the record War Pigs, in reference to the Vietnam War, but the record label prevented them from doing so. 

  As it turns out, Ozzy had no idea this was the case. The following exchange is from an interview with Rolling Stone:

  "Osbourne: We originally called the album War Pigs, after some black-magic party we read about in an Aleister Crowley book. That's why the guy on the cover is wearing a pink suit with a shield and sword: He's dressed like a pig. 

  Iommi: They wouldn't let us use War Pigs as a title. It was basically about Vietnam. 

  Osbourne: I didn't know about Vietnam. I was a dim bulb when it came to world events. I was always loaded."
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  (#9) They Stashed Cocaine In Fake Amplifiers And Flew Them Around The World On Private Planes

  Black Sabbbath's cocaine habits were out of control, especially in the early-to-mid 1970s. Ozzy Osbourne was so high, so drunk, and having so much sex with so many groupies during the recording of Vol. 4 in Los Angeles in 1972, he didn't even know what was going on around him. 

  As Ozzy remembers of the band's days staying at 773 Stradella Road in Bel Air:

  "We never left the house. Booze, drugs, food, groupies - everything was delivered. On a good day, there'd be bowls of white powder and crates of booze in every room, and all these random rock 'n' rollers and chicks in bikinis hanging around in the place...

  It would be impossible to exaggerate the amount of coke we did in that house... At one point we were getting through so much of the stuff, we had to have it delivered twice a day. Don't ask me who was organizing it all - the only thing I can remember is this shady-looking bloke on the telephone the whole time. 

  I once asked him 'What the f*ck do you do, man?'

  He just laughed and fiddled nervously with his aviator shades. At that stage I didn't care, as long as the coke kept coming."

  According to guitarist Tony Iommi, nobody in Black Sabbath could control anyone else, they were all so far gone on drugs. In September 1972, Iommi almost overdosed at the Hollywood Bowl: "I was doing coke left, right and center, and quaaludes, and God knows what else. We used to have [cocaine] flown in by private plane."

  In order to hide the drugs in the planes, Sabbath had fake guitar amps built and filled with bags of cocaine. 
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  (#10) 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' Was Recorded In A Haunted Castle In Wales, Where Ozzy Set Himself On Fire and Bill Ward Slept With A Dagger

  The title track from Black Sabbath's 1973 masterpiece Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has one of the heaviest damn riffs you'll ever hear, so it shouldn't surprise you to learn the album was recorded in part in the dungeon of a haunted Welsh castle. As Ozzy and Iommi revealed in an interview:

  "Iommi: So we rented a castle in Wales, which, yes, was supposedly haunted. Bill saw this ghost jump out the window in his room, so he started taking this big dagger to bed with him. He said if he saw the ghost, he was going to stab it. As if you can stab a ghost! 

  Osbourne: I was the ghost! 

  Iommi: We set up our gear in the dungeons, and it was a great vibe for coming up with ideas. When we wrote Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, all these riffs started coming out. We started using synthesizers, too - musically, we went to another level. 

  Osbourne: That, to me, was the pinnacle of Black Sabbath. I also discovered, as a singer, the best person to harmonize with is yourself -- there's no one that sounds more like you than you." 

  As you can see from the transcript, Iommi seems completely unfazed to learn (or maybe already knew?) Ozzy was, or at least believed himself to be, the ghost terrorizing Ward. While Ozzy was haunting Ward and learning to harmonize with himself, he almost died.

  "Iommi: We almost lost Ozzy. We had a room with a big fireplace. Ozzy had a big fire going but had fallen asleep when a piece of coal tumbled onto the carpet. We forced our way in, and the room was ablaze! 

  Osbourne: I'd set my foot on fire. We were so hellbent on frightening each other, we frightened ourselves! We then made a collective decision to f*cking stop this coke thing - it was destroying us."

  And how did that go? As Ozzy tells it, "I started sniffing it behind the amps, where they couldn't see me."
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  (#11) In 1972, Ozzy Accidentally Called The Cops While High And Locked Himself In A Bathroom To Do All The Drugs Before They Arrived

  While recording in Los Angeles in 1972, Ozzy got a little hot under collar after a trip down the powdery slopes of Mount Blow, and decided to turn on the air conditioner. Only he screwed up and called the cops. 

  What? As Ozzy explained:

  "One day, I'd just done a line and was feeling really hot. I pressed this button on the wall thinking it was the air conditioner - instead, it alerted the police! All these cop cars show up, so I go into the toilet with all the drugs, trying to do them all before they came in!"
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  (#12) Geezer Butler Once Tried To Kill Himself During A Bad Acid Trip

  Though cocaine was Sabbath's primary vice in 1972, as they stalked the long boulevards and labyrinthine canyons of Los Angeles, churning out the Earth-shattering riffs and sinister lyrics of Vol. 4, the band indulged in a number of other substances, notably alcohol. One night, an anonymous groovy party ghoul spiked Geezer Butler's drink with LSD.

  While tripping through the cascading folds of space-time, Butler entered a shrine of necrotic thought and tried to kill himself by jumping out of the window at his hotel room. He told the Guardian: "Tony and Bill had to hold me down on the bed. I started going off drugs after that."
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  (#13) Elvis Presley's Dentist Injected The Band With Demerol Every Night While Recording 'Technical Ecstasy'

  Drugs were a big problem for Black Sabbath when they made Technical Ecstasy in 1976. Ozzy admitted, in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone, that he was more focused on getting blitzed than he was on making the record.

  "Osbourne: I was f*cked up all the time, more concerned about my next bag of powder than performing. It was very sad. We wrote 'Rock and Roll Doctor' about a real person, Dr. Max, who's dead now. 

  Iommi: Dr. Max was Elvis Presley's old dentist who'd give us Demerol. He went from Elvis to Black Sabbath -- good change, innit? 

  Osbourne: We'd go see Dr. Max at seven in the evening. He'd put us in the chair, shoot us up, put on the Rolling Stones and then f*ck off."  

  Neither Osbourne nor Iommi states explicitly why Dr. Max was whacking Sabbath out on pain killers, but, reading between the lines, it seems as though it was used to knock them out, so they could get a full night's sleep. Demerol is the brand name of meperidine, an opioid is frequently prescribed as a pain medication. According to WebMD:

  "Though it helps many people, this medication may sometimes cause addiction. This risk may be higher if you have a substance use disorder (such as overuse of or addiction to drugs/alcohol). Take this medication exactly as prescribed to lower the risk of addiction."
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  (#14) A Deranged Man Tried To Stab Tony Iommi & Painted The Band's Dressing Room Door With His Blood

  A lot happened to Black Sabbath at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972: Tony Iommi almost died of an overdose and was almost murdered with a knife and a lunatic painted a red cross on the band's dressing room door with his own blood.

  When the band arrived at the venue, members found their dressing room door decorated with a red cross. They didn't think much about. During the show, Iommi got frustrated by a malfunctioning amp, so stomped off stage. "As I was walking off, some guy with a dagger lunged at me and tried to stab me," he recalls. 

  As the assailant was pulled away by security, he called the band "Satanists." The band later learned the man had cut his hands and drawn the red cross on their dressing room door with his own blood.
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  (#15) The Devil Visited Geezer Butler In His Bedroom

  In 1968, the year Sabbath formed, bassist Geezer Butler freaked out when greeted by an unusual nighttime visitor - the devil. Following the run-in, Butler threw out the inverted crosses and assorted other occult and Satanic paraphernalia in his apartment. As quoted in Symptom of the Universe, Mick Wall's book about Black Sabbath, Butler said: 

  "I woke up suddenly, and there was this like this black shape standing at the foot of my bed. And it absolutely frightened the bloody life out of me. This shape, for some reason I thought it was the Devil himself! It was almost as if this thing was saying to me, 'It’s time to either pledge allegiance or piss off!' And from that moment on, I just went off the whole thing."
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  (#16) Ozzy Got So Blitzed During The Bacchanal Recording Of 'Vol. 4' He Experienced Hours-Long Blackouts

  While recording in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, the members of Sabbath were like driftwood in the seas of Hollywood hedonism, caught up in waves of epic partying, tossed about by tempestuous currents of alcohol, washed ashore on the powdery beaches of Isla de Cocaina. As Tony Iommi recalls, "We came to LA to record, and we stayed at a house in Bel Air. At the end of the day, it was all dope, booze, drugs, f*cking chicks. Oh, dear, we had some fun in that house."

  Of the band members, Ozzy was the most taken by the dazzling lights of the pleasure dome. As Geezer Butler explained: 

  "You can't write or play songs if you're out of your brains. But because [Osbourne] didn't have to play an instrument, while we were writing he'd be in the bar getting legless or doing all kinds of things." 

  The Prince of Darkness fell so far into the void of snow-blind sweet leaf, he experienced extended blackouts, of which he was at first completely unaware. Ozzy recalled: 

  "I didn't believe it when they said I had blackouts. I'd look at my watch and it would say four o'clock. Then I'd look again and it would say 9:30. I'd totally forget where I'd been or what I'd done. But then you don't think about that before you start drinking. You don't think: 'I wonder what jail I'll wake up in tomorrow?' Because that's not your intention."
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  (#17) Satanists Asked Them To Play At Stonehenge And Put A Curse On The Band When They Declined

  In 1970, Black Sabbath's fans included Satanists and various other practitioners and scholars of occult arts and science. Some such occultists invited the band to participate in rituals, something the members of Sabbath weren't keen on doing. In his autobiography, I Am Ozzy, Osbourne wrote:

  "I couldn't believe it when I learned that people actually ‘practiced [sic] the occult.’ These freaks with white make-up and black robes would come up to us after our gigs and invite us to black masses at Highgate Cemetery in London. I’d say to them, ‘Look, mate, the only evil spirits I’m interested in are called whisky, vodka, and gin.’

  At one point we were invited by a group of Satanists to play at Stonehenge. We told them to f*ck off, so they said they’d put a curse on us. Britain even had a 'chief witch' in those days… Mind you, we did buy a Ouija board once and have a little seance. We scared the shit out of each other."

  Iommi recalls another incident of the band being sought out by occult fanatics:

  "One night, after finishing a show, we returned to the hotel and found the corridor leading to our rooms completely filled with people wearing black cloaks, sitting on the floor with candles in their hands, chanting, 'Ahhhh.' So we climbed over them to get to our rooms, but could still hear them chanting. We called security, but that didn't work. So we synchronized our watches, opened our doors at the same time, blew the candles out and sang 'Happy Birthday' to them. Pissed 'em off. They freaked -- they were expecting us to help them conduct a Satanic mass and they got 'Happy Birthday' instead."

  Despite the band's lack of interest in participating in occult rites, Black Sabbath's association with Satan and the occult helped their career quite a bit. As Ozzy explains:

  "The good thing about the satantic stuff was that it gave us endless free publicity. People couldn't get enough of it. During its first day of release, [the band's first album] Black Sabbath sold five thousand copies, and by the end of the year, it was on its way to selling a million worldwide."
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  (#18) More Than Once, They Played A Show At A Swedish Den Of Sin Owned By A Mad Doctor

  While discussing the writing and recording of Paranoid, Tony Iommi mentioned having written the song "War Pigs" during a jam session at a Swedish venue the band played regularly in the early '70s. 

  "We used to play this place in Sweden where hookers would hang out, owned by a mad doctor who'd always scream, 'No drum solo!' at you," Iommi recalls. Which begs the question, "Um... what?" 

  Frankly, just about anyone who found themselves sitting through typical Metal concerts of the '80s would agree that Scandinavian MD was onto something. . .
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  (#19) Geezer Butler Got Way Into Aleister Crowley And The Occult Fervor Of Late '60s London

  In the late '60s, Geezer Butler was "getting into black magic and the occult." As Mick Wall, author of Black Sabbath: Symptoms of the Universe, puts it, Butler was:

  "... overindulging the prevailing trend of the time towards various aspects of hippy mysticism, from verifiable Eastern religions to the more esoteric works of the most famous English wizard of Merlin - Aleister Crowley." 

  Crowley posthumously became a huge figure in swinging '60s London, landing on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in 1967 and inspiring the occult iconography and themes of Led Zeppelin, whose guitarist Jimmy Page got deeply into Crowley's work. 

  As Butler said of his dive into the occult:

  "I just, like, had a morbid interest in it. I was reading every book that came out about it. There were a lot of underground magazines around then, plus I used to go down to London for the weekend, to a place called Middle Earth... And there used to be, like, these occult groups - not musical groups, groups of people." 

  After seeing the devil in 1968, Butler decided to get out of this phase as quickly as he had gotten into it. 
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  (#20) Ozzy Was Fired For Being Too High In A Band Full Of Cokeheads (Including Bill Ward!)

  In the late '70s, Iommi, Ward, and Butler started having seriously problems with Ozzy's drug habit. His erratic behavior, near-endless coke use, and penchant for disappearing for long periods made it impossible for Black Sabbath to make new music. 

  As Iommi said in an interview for the book Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal:

  “I’d have to go over to [Warner Bros.] and they’d say, ‘How’s the album coming?’ and I’d go, ‘Oh, great, great.' I had to face those people knowing full well that we hadn’t anything to play them. It got to the point where the other guys said, 'Well, look. If we don’t do anything, we’re gonna break up. We can’t stand it. We’re gonna leave.’ So that was the decision between the three of us. We said we’re going to have to replace Ozzy.”

  Regarding the substance abuse issues of other members of Sabbath, Iommi tells it straight: 

  "Like Ozzy, [Ward] was drunk all the time. The difference was, he didn't leave the house and could at least prop himself behind the drums when the band decided to try writing. Even when Ozzy returned to the house, he was too trashed to sing."

  As for being fired from a band notorious for drug use for using drugs, Ozzy said:

  “I’d be lying if I said I didn't feel betrayed by what happened with Black Sabbath. We were four blokes who’d grown up together a few streets apart. We were like family, like brothers. And firing me for being f*cked up was hypocritical bullsh*t. We were all f*cked up. If you’re stoned and I’m stoned and you’re telling me that I’m fired because I’m stoned how can that be? Because I’m slightly more stoned than you are?”
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  (#21) The Band's Publicist Once Asked A Reporter Not To Publish Details Of Ozzy's Coke-Fueled Ranting, Which Touched Upon Auschwitz

  In 2015, journalist Geoff Barton recalled life on the road with Black Sabbath in 1976, following the release of Sabotage. Barton's lengthy piece, written for Team Rock, contains a ton of great information, including details on his first interview with Ozzy, during which the Prince of Darkness was a rambling, bizarre mess. 

  Barton attended a Black Sabbath show in Portsmouth, England, and was chauffeured with Ozzy to a Holiday Inn in London. During the ride, Osbourne told Barton he was "three-quarters mad," and it was unclear whether he was joking. As cokeheads tend to do, Ozzy bounced maniacally from one subject to the next,

  "... like some frantic pigeon, pecking at one crumb and then the other. He was as prone to long moments of silence as he was to extended paragraphs of conversation. He leapt from his car seat in apparent terror at the slightest provocation... freaking out over what appeared to be nothing.

  Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Ozzy decided that the phrase ‘out of it’ sounded similar to ‘Auschwitz’. 'Out of it… Auschwitz… Out of it… Auschwitz… Out of it… Auschwitz…' He repeated the mantra for two or three minutes, then stopped."

  When they arrived at the hotel, Ozzy's publicist, Richard Ogden, asked Barton not to write about monsieur Osbourne's mental state: “When you write your feature, please don’t say Ozzy is mad. He’s not, you know. He’s not, I tell you. He’s just… not.”
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  (#22) Geezer Loved Heroin But Didn't Overdo It; Frank The Roadie Wasn't So Lucky

  In order to temper the mania induced by cocaine, Ozzy smoke a ton of weed. When he realized that wasn't strong enough, he tried Valium, which also didn't quite do the trick. As he writes in his autobiography,

  "Then eventually I moved on to heroin, but thank god I didn't like the stuff. Geezer tried it, too. He thought it was f*cking brilliant, but he was sensible. He didn't want to get involved. Frank, the roadie, wasn't so lucky - heroin ruined him in the end. I haven't heard from Frank in years now, and I'd be amazed if he survived, to be honest with you."
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  (#23) After Invoking The Ire Of Religious Organizations, They Were Blamed For A Church Burning Down

  Black Sabbath was a polarizing band. They had a massive, devoted following, but a lot of critics, too, many of whom hated the band on account of perceived connections to Satan and the occult. Christian religious organizations, in particular, vehemently opposed Black Sabbath (Iommi refers to "the Church" having a bone to pick with the band, though doesn't clarify whether he means the Catholic Church or the Church of England).

  Iommi recalls an incident of a church preventing the band from playing:

   "A church ran a thing in the papers for weeks before a scheduled performance saying, if you let these lads into town you're committing a sin. Anyway, they managed to stop us from playing. And the next day the church, for some reason, burned down. [laughs] And guess who got the blame? The uproar was ridiculous!"

  While it seems absurd, it's possible Iommi's incendiary riffs, coupled with the volcanic eruptions of the band's rhythm section, burned the church in question to the ground. 
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  (#24) A Track From 'Masters Of Reality' Was Linked To The Son Of Sam Murders

  Sabbath's Master of Reality came out in 1971 and featured the song "After Forever." Allegedly, David Berkowitz, AKA the Son of Sam, who murdered eight people in New York City during the summer of 1976, was a huge fan of the band, and was inspired by the track. 

  According to Ozzy, the band questioned whether its lyrics had gone too far into darkness and the occult when informed Berkowitz was perhaps inspired by "After Forever." Ozzy told Rolling Stone:

  "Geezer wondered if it was a bit too heavy when he wrote, 'Would you like to see the pope on the end of a rope?' in 'After Forever'; Geezer's Catholic, you know. You remember that guy from New York, Son of Sam, who was killing all the chicks? When they got into his apartment, he supposedly had the lyrics to 'After Forever' written on his wall. I thought, 'F*ck me, are we going too far?'"

  Iommi added in an interview with Guitar World: "I think the Son of Sam murders were associated with us, because he recited words from our songs when he killed people."

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