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Pushing Up The Daisies

By an odd coincidence I was listening to Ozzy in the car just an hour and a half ago. Was singing along to Mama I'm coming home and Mr Crowley while driving, not knowing he was already dead.
Didn't know he died until now! Been driving for 7 hours straight, and listening to various classics along the way. Then 'Dreamer' came, and having heard a lot of songs where the artist is already dead, I was thinking it's amazing that he's still here, and that he was able to make such a beautiful song.
R.i.p Ozzy!
 
you could argue they invented heavy metal, they were not the first band to make heavy rock songs, but they were the first to commit to it and make heavy metal albums, with the dark themes and imagery that were the mainstay of the genre since

their influence on NWBHM and thrash/speed metal is ingrained, they are key in the evolutionary tree
Technically they definitely invented heavy metal - the term comes from a review (can't remember if it was the first album or a gig) in which the reporter described the sound as "nothing more than the sound of hitting heavy metal...." (I paraphrase slightly)
(Daft Punk got their name in the same way!)

Fun fact - Paranoid is nothing more than filler. The album was finished, but the record company said it needs another three minutes, so Tony Iommi went away and knocked up the music, and Geezer Butler the lyrics.
(Bonus fact - Song 2 by Blur was also nothing more than a throw away song. They wrote it as a fudge you to the record label and thought the label would refuse to put it on the album!
And who says musicians over think their art?!)
 
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