To mark the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's debut, we spoke to band members, peers like Judas Priest's Rob Halford, and collaborators including cover artist Keef about what went into the landmark LP. Here are five things we learned
“I have vague memories of seeing them as Earth in an obscure club in Birmingham and they were in a sort of heavy blues, jazzy prog mode musically,” he recalled. “There wasn’t much of anything going on visually to remember. I can only recall the very first Sabbath songs like [Crow’s] ‘Evil Woman’ which was a cover. There was still some freeform noodling going on when they played live, but essentially the heaviness was dominating.
4. Album cover artist “Keef” originally tried to make the sleeve sexy but decided that wouldn’t work. When Vertigo’s in-house album art designer “Keef,” whose real name is Keith Macmillan, first heard thealbum, he was struck by how dark it was — and he knew exactly where he wanted to shoot the cover: a 15th-century watermill in the English countryside. For the past 50 years, Macmillan has shied away from interviews — he’s done just two prior to speaking with, only because he had to — and he told us that this was his first “voluntary” interview, because he liked Black Sabbath so much.
Macmillan revealed that he had originally tried a few different setups with his model, Louisa Livingstone, where she was nude but then thought better of it. “She wasn’t wearing any clothes under that cloak because we were doing things that were slightly more risqué, but we decided none of that worked,” he says. “Any kind of sexuality took away from the more foreboding mood.”that her most vivid memory of the shoot was how cold it was.
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