Talk about fortuitous! This song, originally called ‘The Paranoid’, only exists because Black Sabbath needed to fill a three-minute gap on their second album.
“We went to the pub, and left Tony [Iommi, guitarist] in the studio trying to come up with a suitable riff,” says studio engineer Tom Allom. “Later he came running over the road and told us, ‘I’ve got it, I’ve got it.’”
As it turned out, Iommi’s excitement was somewhat justified. is probably the band’s best-known song, a track that paved the way in-part
