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Black Sabbath to re-release five remastered albums

Reissues are set for a September release

Black Sabbath are set to re-release remastered versions of five albums from their back catalogue next month.

The heavy metal band, who were fronted by Ozzy Osbourne, will reissue their 1972 album 'Vol 4', 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' (1973), 'Sabotage' (1975), 'Technical Ecstasy' (1976) and 'Never Say Die!' (1978) on September 21.

The releases, on digipack CDs, will feature new liner notes.

Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham in 1968 and are best known for their classic 1970 album 'Paranoid'.
 

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The 'mini-Stonehenge' scene featured in the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' was filmed before Black Sabbath's 1983-4 Born Again tour, but on this jaunt, in an uncanny coincidence, the band had a life-size version of Stonehenge constructed out of plywood. However, it didn't fit inside the venues they were booked to play, so plans had to be scaled down. Then-singer Ian Gillan recalls: "We only had three of the stones onstage. Plus, there was a dwarf who’d come onstage miming to the sound of a baby screaming."
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