US EditionBlack Sabbath Regain Ownership of "Historically Important" Early Earth Demos After Legal Battle
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Black Sabbath Settle Dispute Over Early Demos, Regain Ownership of Earth Tapes
The legal battle over Black Sabbath’s early demos has been resolved, with the four members regaining ownership of the songs they recorded in 1969 when they were known as Earth. In June 2025, just weeks before Black Sabbath’s End of the Beginning concert and Ozzy Osbourne’s death, the band’s first manager Jim Simpson revealed plans to officially release the Earth recordings that Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward recorded at Zella S…
Settlement reached over Black Sabbath’s early Earth recordings, says Sharon Osbourne - Regional Media News
Sharon Osbourne says that a settlement has been reached over Black Sabbath's early recordings when their band name was Earth. In 2025, news surfaced that the label Big Bear Recordings, founded by early Sabbath manager Jim Simpson, was set to release an album of Earth recordings. Sharon, the widow and manager of late Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, later posted a statement along with emails to Simpson saying that the band members agreed that they…
During the past 2025, Jim Simpson, the first manager of Black Sabbath, announced the release of "Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes", a compilation that promised to contain the unpublished demos that the band formed by Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward recorded long before it was called Black Sabbath. In that distant 1969, the band was called Earth and even though the songs had the quality that Black Sabbath used to us, the sty…
The conflict between Sharon Osbourne and Jim Simpson around Black Sabbath's early demos is closed. At the center of the dispute: 1969 recordings, made when the band still called Earth, whose release had been blocked by the Osbourne family. Black Sabbath recovers its historical demos In an episode of the podcast The [...]
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