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Black Sabbath

Deborah Frost, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 13 March 2006

BLACK SABBATH never intended to appeal to, never mind be understood by, rock critics. Nor were they designed for screaming teens, swooning debs, your mom, industry suits, or anyone else who eventually embraced prior demonstrations of peculiarly British loutdom as rendered by the Stones, say, or Zeppelin.

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