Geezer Butler's excitement upon receiving his own very vinyl copy of Black Sabbath's debut album was tempered somewhat when he opened its gatefold sleeve.
"I saw the upside-down cross and thought, ‘Oh God!’ because I knew I couldn’t bring it home," he remembers. "My family are strict Irish Catholics and my dad would have gone mental.”
To be fair to artwork designer Keith 'Keef' McMillan, the band were intent upon making "dark music for dark times" as Ozzy Osbourne once stated, and there was a very good reason why the quartet drew upon occult influences on the ominous, doomy title track and Behind The Wall Of Sleep.
