- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: Sanctuary
- DVD Release Date: 26 Aug 2002
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005B5YA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 68,631 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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It is possible that Black Sabbath enjoy a higher global profile now that at any point in the group's long history. This, of course, is largely due to singer Ozzy Osbourne's undignified but profitable decision to allow MTV to portray him as a sort of heavy metal Grandpa Simpson. Possibly as a result of his immense celebrity, Osbourne didn't find the time to be interviewed for this retrospective documentary. However, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward are on hand to provide a telling of events which, while never as entertaining as Osbourne's familiar routine, is at least more coherent.
Osbourne is irrepressibly present in the archive performance footage collected here, shot at various points between 1970 and 1978. The early stuff is especially interesting, proving beyond doubt that Sabbath--whether they realised it or not--had much more in common with the prototypical punks like The Stooges and the MC5, who were then starting to make waves in America, than they have with the uncountable long-haired and leather-trousered heavy metal bozos who have attempted to fill Sabbath's shoes since.
On the DVD: The Black Sabbath Story is presented in widescreen. Sound is available in Dolby 5.1 Surround or Dolby Digital. The menu of extras is a little confusing to negotiate, but includes further interviews with band members, a gallery of Sabbath albums, and a long re-telling of Sabbath's very early history by former manager Jim Simpson.--Andrew Mueller
Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Stereo
Bonus Band History
Album Gallery
Animated Menus
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital 5.1 English\Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Digital Stereo
Bonus Band History
Album Gallery
Animated Menus
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
if you know good music when you hear it and can appreciate what black sabbath have done for heavy metal music over the decades then you will love this video. it focuses on the 'classic' sabbath lineup of ozzy, iommi, butler and ward form there first album to the controversial departure of ozzy in 1978. a must for all metal fans
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This DVD is great, its got incredible live footage from 1970 thats unavailable anywhere else, interviews with the band and the hilarious (and deeply crap) promo vid for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Picture quality could have been cleared up and no point buying it if you've got the video but still a classic!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Wayback when I went to see Sabbath in 197* at Mayfair Ballroom in The Bullring Birmingham (England) There was scant lighting and the band had to walk through the crowd to get to the stage and couldn't get off for the encore. Volume 4 had just been released and it was brilliant and I've the photos to prove it. The video manages to capture some of the raw energy and agression that was Sabbath. The audience, particularly in Brum, believed in 'Generals gathered...' and 'hand of doom'.. and 'Children of the Grave'. In the early seventies there still could have been WWIII, raining down on rows of terraced houses in the back of Birmingham. I wore my CND badge, as we did.
Sabbath summed it all up.
Get this video and ask yourself how a butchers apprentice, a guitarist with his fingers chopped off, a guitarist who played bass and probably one of the best drummers ever ever ever, all completely just Brummies caught up in something they didn't understand. Some of the footage speaks a thousand words.
Sabbath summed it all up.
Get this video and ask yourself how a butchers apprentice, a guitarist with his fingers chopped off, a guitarist who played bass and probably one of the best drummers ever ever ever, all completely just Brummies caught up in something they didn't understand. Some of the footage speaks a thousand words.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good viewing
A good DVD on a quality band. Not the most in depth you will get, but never the less if you like Sabbath this is for you.
Published 5 months ago by FRED
Ozzy in his prime.
I have got to say, since I was 5 years of age I loved black sabbath. I used to put my fathers Sabbath records and endlessly listen to classics like War Pigs, Iron Man, Fairies Wear... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2004 by JLC
an exellent dvd for sabbath fans
black sabbath story vol 1 is an exellent dvd that focuses on the classic sabbath line up of ozzy, bill ,geezer and tony. Read more
Published on 28 July 2003 by "sueandterry"
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