Black Sabbath

Released: November 4, 1981

Songwriter: Dio Geezer Butler Tony Iommi

Producer: Martin Birch

A rumble of thunder
I'm suddenly under your spell
No rhyme or reason or time of the season, but oh well
The darkened deliver
I shake and I shiver down your soul
You know what to cover
I think for another it's a story told
So get a good hold

Regiment fooled you
You thought that you knew who you are
A simple equation, that's the relation
But that's gone too far
A time of suspension, a special condition
That we all know
So let it all go

Turn up the night
Turn up the night
Turn up the night
It feels so right

Nighttime sorrow, taken like the pain
Black will not become white
It's all the same
Evil lurks in twilight, dances in the dark
Makes you need the movement
Like a fire needs a spark to burn

A rumble of thunder
I'm suddenly under your spell
No rhyme or reason or time of the season, but oh well
The darkened deliver
I shake and I shiver down your soul
So get a good hold

Turn up the night
Turn up the night
Turn up the night
It feels so bright

Gotta turn up the night
Turn up the night
Turn up the night
It feels so right

Turn up the night
Turn up the night
Get out the light
Turn up the night
If it feels right

Turn up the night
If it feels right
Shut out the light
Turn up the night
Turn up the night

From their start as a heavy blues-rock band called Earth in 1968, Black Sabbath survived over four decades with a total of 19 studio albums and numerous hits, but only “Paranoid” reached the top 10 UK Singles Chart, putting together one of the greatest rock bands of all time and setting the standards for music in their genre.

Virtually every single heavy metal band has cited the early Black Sabbath albums as a major musical influence and Black Sabbath have at least played some part in laying the foundations for most of heavy metal’s sub-genres, including thrash metal (“Symptom of the Universe” and “Into the Void”), doom metal (“Black Sabbath”) and stoner metal (“Sweet Leaf”). The band also explored many rock sub-genres, including hard rock (“Paranoid”), blues rock (“N.I.B.”), psychedelic rock (“Planet Caravan”) and, of course, the traditional heavy metal, being one of the precursors of this genre.

They were ranked by MTV as the “Greatest Metal Band” of all time and placed second in VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their “100 Greatest Artists of All Time.” They have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. They have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance.

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