Never Say Die!

Never Say Die!
Black Sabbath studio album
Publication (s)	September 28, 1978
Label (s)	Vertigo Records Warner Bros. (USA and Canada)
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Hard rock
Title (number)	9
running time	45:41
occupation	Singing : Ozzy Osbourne Electric bass : Geezer Butler Electric guitar : Tony Iommi Drums and lead vocals for Swinging the Chain : Bill Ward
production	Black Sabbath
Studio (s)	Sound Interchange, Toronto , Canada
chronology Technical Ecstasy (1976) Never Say Die! Heaven and Hell (1980)

Never Say Die! is the eighth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath . It was released in September 1978.

Emergence

Never Say Die! was recorded in Toronto in early 1978 . Despite the interpersonal problems that had already emerged while working on Technical Ecstasy, the band was glad that Ozzy Osbourne returned to the band after his father's death. In the meantime, Dave Walker had sung. Work on the album turned out to be difficult, however, as Osbourne returned just three days before the start of recording in January 1978:

“He (Ozzy Osbourne) didn't want to sing any of the material we had composed with Dave, which is why we flew into freezing Canada without songs. Our plan was to write songs in the morning and record them at night. We felt like machines that just had to work and didn't have time to let their ideas sink in. "

- Tony Iommi

The drug use in the band was high, they sometimes had to break off sessions because no one could play properly. As with Technical Ecstasy , Bill Ward had to sing one of the pieces (Swinging The Chain) because Osbourne was no longer able to do it.

Sales of the album started slowly. For the tour, Van Halen , a young, playful support band, was again engaged, which Black Sabbath could not handle live.

The Hipgnosis team designed the cover again .

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Never Say Die!   UK 12 10/14/1978 (6 weeks)   US 69 12/02/1978 (14 weeks)

Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic wrote that only die-hard-Black-Sabbath fans and completeists would probably still have value in Never Say Die after all these years ! think the average heavy metal fan won't care much about the album. He awarded 1.5 out of five stars. Rolling Stone magazine awarded three out of five stars. The tracks are better than on the previous album, especially the title track.

The album reached gold status in the US on November 7, 1997.

Track list

All tracks were written by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler and Bill Ward .

1. Never Say Die - 3:49
2. Johnny Blade - 6:28
3. Junior's Eyes - 6:43
4. A Hard Road - 6:05
5. Shock Wave - 5:16
6. Air Dance - 5:18
7. Over to You - 5:24
8. Breakout - 2:35
9. Swinging the Chain - 4:05

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rensen: The Big Bang of the Metal Universe, the Ozzy Years. Black Sabbath History , in: Rock Hard, No. 297, February 2012, pp. 14-25, p. 24.
2. ↑ British Charts (accessed February 25, 2012)
3. ↑ Allmusic : Billboard Albums (accessed February 25, 2012)
4. ↑ Greg Prato: Review at Allmusic (accessed February 26, 2012)
5. ↑ www.rollingstone.com: Black Sabbath Album Guide
6. ↑ RIAA Gold & Platinum database (accessed June 8, 2010)