History Trivia / BlackSabbath

** Music/MichaelBolton may or may not have auditioned to replace Ronnie James Dio in the early 80s - Tony Iommi says he remembered receiving a demo tape from Michael Bolton at that time, but Bolton has denied it (though he ''was'' originally more of a HardRock singer, and his old band Blackjack once opened for Ozzy), while Geezer Butler claims Tony must have been joking.

** Music/MichaelBolton may or may not have auditioned to replace Ronnie James Dio in the early 80s - Tony Iommi says he remembered Bolton being one of the prospective singers, but Bolton has denied it (though he ''was'' originally more of a HardRock singer, and his old band Blackjack once opened for Ozzy).

** The ''We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n' Roll'' compilation and the muddy, inaudible ''Live at Last'' album were released without the band's consent. The band were unaware of the former's existence until fans brought them to autograph signings.

** The ''We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n' Roll'' compilation and the muddy, inaudible ''Live at Last'' album were released without the band's consent.

** Dio was originally going to remain part of the band when they accepted to open the last two shows of Ozzy's first retirement tour in 1992 but he declined as he felt that this would lead to a reunion with Ozzy and drummer Bill Ward (which it did in the final show, see below) and as a result departed, resulting in [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]] to briefly replace him for those two dates.

** After "The Devil You Know", the ''Heaven and Hell'' line-up considered doing a second album. Needless to say, [[DiedDuringProduction Dio's unfortunate passing]] shattered any hope of this ever happening.

* NamesTheSame: The song "Bible Black" off ''The Devil You Know'' has nothing to do with Music/KingCrimson’s "Starless and Bible Black", nor the ''Bible Black'' anime[[note]]Which ''is'' named after the King Crimson album, and so is the eroge ''Starless: 21st Century Nymphomaniacs'' by the same creator.[[/note]].

!! The Band

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!! The Film
* ActingForTwo: Creator/BorisKarloff plays both himself (as the host) in the wraparounds, and Gorca in ''The Wurdulak''.
* ProductionPosse: Bava's father Eugenio created and sculpted the head for the ghost in ''The Drop of Water'' as well as the severed head for the segment ''The Wurdalak''.
* ReCut: The AIP version, which reorders the segments, adds new wraparounds with Karloff, changes the score and removes the lesbian angle from ''The Telephone'' while adding a supernatural element.
* SameLanguageDub: Creator/BorisKarloff is looped by Aldo Silvani in the Italian version.
* UncreditedRole: The child actor playing Ivan in ''The Wurdalak'' isn't listed in the credits, and to date their identity remains unknown. Same goes for the director of the re-shot wraparound segments in the AIP cut.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Les Baxter recorded the AIP version's entire score in a single day.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Had Creator/MarioBava's later film, ''[[Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]]'', not been a bomb in its own right, AIP were planning to hire him again to direct an adaptation of ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' (which they were planning to title ''Scarlet Friday'', completing a ThematicSeries with this movie and Bava's earlier ''Film/BlackSunday''). They had Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/ChristopherLee in mind to star. As it stands, the film was made in 1970 without Bava, Karloff, or Lee's involvement, and it was just called ''The Dunwich Horror''. Creator/DeanStockwell starred.

** ''Forbidden'' hasn't been very liked by the band, even at the time. Then-vocalist Tony Martin said in a later interview that it was mainly a "filler album" done to get out of a deal with the label.

** ''Music/{{Paranoid}}'' was originally supposed to be called ''War Pigs'', but the record company was afraid of protests by supporters of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (which the UK ''wasn't involved in'', but officially supported at the time) and had the title changed. The original cover, a distorted picture of a man with a sword and shield jumping from behind a tree, was kept however. In his autobiography, Ozzy describes his annoyance at this:

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Had Creator/MarioBava's next film, ''[[Film/DrGoldfootAndTheBikiniMachine Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]]'', not been a bomb in its own right, AIP were planning to hire him again to direct an adaptation of ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' (which they were planning to title ''Scarlet Friday'', completing a ThematicSeries with this movie and Bava's earlier ''Film/BlackSunday''). They had Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/ChristopherLee in mind to star. As it stands, the film was made in 1970 without Bava, Karloff, or Lee's involvement, and it was just called ''The Dunwich Horror''. Creator/DeanStockwell starred.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Had the film not underperformed, Creator/MarioBava would've directed an adaptation of "Literature/TheDunwichHorror" for AIP, starring Creator/BorisKarloff and Creator/ChristopherLee. As it stands, the film was made in 1970 without Bava, Karloff, or Lee's involvement.

** After "The Devil You Know", the ''Heaven and Hell'' line-up considered doing a second album. Needless to say, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Dio's unfortunate passing]] shattered any hope of this ever happening.

* MeaningfulName: ''Sabotage'' got its name after the band was getting ripped off back and forth after the release of ''Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'', and we’re spending more time with their layers than they were recording a single damn song together.

* NamesTheSame: The song "Bible Black" off ''The Devil You Know'' has nothing to do with Music/KingCrimson’s "Starless and Bible Black", nor the Bible Black anime.

* UncreditedRole: The child actor playing Ivan in ''The Wurdalak'' isn't listed in the credits, and to date their identity remains unknown. Same goes for the director of re-shot wraparound segments in the AIP cut.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The AIP version, which reorders the segments, adds new wraparounds with Karloff, changes the score and removes the lesbian angle from ''The Telephone'' while adding a supernatural element.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The AIP version, which reorders the segments, adds new wraparounds with Karloff, changes the score and removes the lesbian angle from ''The Telephone''.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Les Baxter recorded the film's entire score in a single day.

* ProductionPosse: Bava's father Eugenio created and sculpted the head for the ghost in 'The Drop of Water' as well as the severed head for the segment 'The Wurdalak.'

* ExecutiveMeddling: The AIP version, which reorders the segments, changes the score and removes the lesbian angle from ''The Telephone''.