Today marks the release of the 50th Anniversary 5 LP/4 CD edition of Black Sabbath’s genre-defining album Paranoid, which features the vinyl debut of two 1970 concerts.
Following the success of the band’s self-titled debut album in early 1970, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward returned that fall with Paranoid which became Black Sabbath’s first album to top the U.K charts and has since sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S alone.