The album was originally titled War Pigs, after the opening track, a title that was quickly changed because of a potential backlash due to the Vietnam War. In the UK, Sabbath released Paranoid at the end of 1970, the same year as their self-titled album. Now named Van Halen after their lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen, the band earlier considered calling themselves Rat Salad which was the 7th song of the album Paranoid. Lo and behold, Paranoid, the bands sophomore effort. The story of how the classic album Paranoid was made with stories from the horses-mouth to those who were influenced by its content. They sang covers of songs by other bands and Black Sabbath was one band whose songs they performed a lot. Van Halen rose to fame in 1978, prior to this the band used to perform at clubs. However, this did not stop the album’s title track from being liked by the audiences, and it reached Number 4 in the UK Top 10 charts. They only had a certain group of followers. The band now has a massive fan-following and are considered pioneers of heavy metal now but weren’t thriving back then. Paranoid was a song written just as an obligation as the band wanted to launch their second album. Paranoid is without any doubt the best Black Sabbath albums ever, but more importantly one of the most important heavy metal albums of all time. Paranoid is the only song to be in the UK Top 10 charts Black Sabbaths influential second album Paranoid will be reissued as vinyl and CD super deluxe box sets in October in celebration of the 40th anniversary. However, the fact remains that the artwork remained unchanged. However, Ozzy Osbourne later mentioned in his book that the change was made because the band had a feeling that Paranoid will garner positive reviews. The name of the album was reportedly changed from War Pigs to Paranoid as the band had doubts that it might lead to negative reviews as there was the Vietnam War that was going on back then. Only name of album changed, and not the artwork The notes don’t completely match each other, but the similarities are evident. So, when the band had to write another song in haste, they picked up from Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown. It made to number 4 on UK Top 20 hits chart.Īlso Read: Kangana Ranaut 'not Ladaku I Never Start A Fight, Will Quit Twitter If Proved Otherwise' Paranoid's similarity with Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdownīack then, it was a common thing for bands that played in clubs to rip-off from other’s songs and/or music. Although written as a song just to complete the album, Paranoid is the most famous and acclaimed song from the album.
Just to get done with the album, the band came up with Paranoid. After they took it to the record label, they were told to write another song. A post shared by Black Sabbath on at 7:26am PDTīlack Sabbath had finished writing and composing for their second album within 4 months after releasing their first in February 1970.
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