![]() Most of the songs on Paranoid evolved during onstage improvisational jams. ![]() It was all done in about two hours." According to Alexander, "Paranoid" "crystallized the band's writing process, with Iommi initiating the ideas with his charred riffs, Ozzy (Osbourne) working on a melody, Geezer providing drive and the majority of the lyrics, and Bill Ward locking into a set of often pounding rhythms beneath Butler's bass rumble." The single was released in August 1970 and reached number four on the UK charts, remaining Black Sabbath's only top ten hit. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom." In the liner notes to the 1998 live album Reunion, bassist Geezer Butler recounts to Phil Alexander that they wrote the song "in five minutes, then I sat down and wrote the lyrics as quickly as I could. As drummer Bill Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony (Iommi) just played the guitar lick and that was it. The album's title track was written as an afterthought. Paranoid was recorded at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London, England. In an effort to capitalise on the recent UK chart success of their eponymous debut album, Black Sabbath returned to the studio with producer Rodger Bain in June 1970, just four months after the album was released. Paranoid was the band's only album to top the UK Albums Chart until the release of 13 in 2013. Paranoid was ranked number one Rolling Stone‘s list of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" in 2017 and number 139 on its “ The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list in 2020. Paranoid is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time, often cited as a key influence for the development of the genre as well as one of its earliest albums. The album contains several of the band's signature songs, including " Iron Man", " War Pigs" and the title track, which was the band's only Top 20 hit, reaching number 4 on the UK charts. ![]() Paranoid is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released on 18 September 1970 through Vertigo Records in the United Kingdom and Warner Bros.
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