Note left by Ozzy Osbourne in a music shop led to start of Black Sabbath, band member recalls
foxnews.comA note that said "Ozzy Zig needs a gig" left in a music shop led to the forming of Black Sabbath, according to its members. Founding member Geezer Butler told the Wall Street Journal that he saw Ozzy Osbourne’s note while in a Birmingham shop when he was actively looking for a singer after his band Rare Breed broke up. "I left word at his house," Butler said. "The next day, a shoeless, head-shaven Ozzy Osbourne with a chimney brush over his shoulder was at my door." Black Sabbath members Bill Ward and Tony Iommi have also described finding the note in previous interviews but decided against letting Ozzy join them in a band because they knew him from high school and didn’t think he could sing.
But Butler told the Journal, "Ozzy promised to grow his hair and said he had a P.A. system, which we didn’t have and needed," adding that he also recommended Ward and Iommi for the band.
He said the four of them began playing blues wherever they could get a gig, then started writing their own songs and a year later, in 1969, they were Black Sabbath.
The band first called themselves the Polka Tulk Blues Band, then Earth before they settled on Black Sabbath, after a 1963 Boris Karloff movie.
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