'Birth of Metal ' music night marks Black Sabbath milestone

Henry 's Blueshouse will host a one night only music event to celebrate 53 years since the release of the first Black Sabbath album.

The first Black Sabbath album, titled as 'Black Sabbath ', was released in the UK on Vertigo Records on 13 February, 1970.

To the surprise and disbelief of everyone at Vertigo Records, the London-based music media and the entire London-based record industry, it charted on the week of release, peaked at #8 and went Gold in the UK, Canada, Holland, Finland and Germany.

Four months later it was released by Warner Brothers Music in the USA, spent a year on the chart, peaked at #23 and was certified Platinum.

Black Sabbath were regulars at Henry 's Blueshouse. They played there as Earth, made their first appearance as Black Sabbath there and were more-or-less Henry 's house band.

Henry 's organiser, Jim Simpson managed Black Sabbath from the beginning, taking them to two hit albums, “Black Sabbath ” and “Paranoid ”.

The Manchester based band Sabbra Cadabra will deliver three rocking sets, including the entire “Black Sabbath ” album - complete with that most memorable of all introductions: rain, thunder and church bells.

There will be much Sabbath-associated activity, including a photo slide show of Sabbath rareities, a soundtrack of Brum 's bands of that era, memorabilia, early posters and a chance to ask the band 's founding manager, Jim Simpson, those Sabbath questions you 've always wanted to ask in a 20-minute Q&A.

The event will be held at Henry 's Blueshouse on Sunday, 12 February.