Before the dawn of Black Sabbath there was Earth. This was the band Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward formed from the ashes of their previous project, The Polka Tulk Blues Band. And now an album's worth of material from Earth has been unearthed and will be released next month as The Legendary Lost Tapes.
"Before Black Sabbath, the band were known as Earth – a blues-driven powerhouse already making a name for themselves," says Jim Simpson, Sabbath's first manager. "This new release presents rare early recordings from that era, remastered from long-lost tapes.
