OZZY & GEEZER BOOK SET: The Sabbath Symposium

What is this that stands before us? A giant Ozzy Osbourne photo book, and Geezer Butler’s life story in his own words, two pieces to the eternal puzzle at more than 50% discount to tide you over while we continue to work on our own new books… 

BOOK #1: OZZY AT 75: The Unofficial Illustrated History
(deluxe hardcover)

Not Our Book!: This is a like-new, unread deluxe Motorbooks hardcover collection of excellent Ozzy photos we can offer in limited quantities at deep discount with an overstock mark of the beast on spine

We have a limited supply of this hefty 4-lb. (1.8Kg), 200-page compilation of essential photos of metal doomfather Ozzy Osbourne. An excellent visual chronicle of this beloved heavy music fixture as he turns 75, with just enough basic text to tie all the images together.

“OZZY@75 is well done at every level I couldn’t help but love this book, despite an overarching of familiarity with the source material…there are several Ozzy books on the market and this is one of the best!”―Metal-Rules.com

From the publisher: 

This unique and beautifully produced book celebrates and examines the “Prince of Darkness” as he turns 75 through the lens of 75 milestones. This exquisite volume features:

• Slipcased hardcover format
• Stunning concert and candid offstage photography
• Images of memorabilia, including gig posters, 7-inch picture sleeves, ticket stubs, and more
• Gatefold Ozzy timeline
• Gatefold commissioned artwork depicting Ozzy through the years

Key studio albums are featured, of course, with an overview of the events that helped chart the course of Ozzy’s career:

• Key albums, both with Black Sabbath and as a solo artist
• Ventures like Black Sabbath reunions, Ozzfest, and his autobiography
• Collaborations with guitarists like Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee, and Zakk Wylde
• His diagnosis of Parkinson’s
• …and of course the mythic offstage misadventures

BOOK #2: INTO THE VOID: From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond, by Geezer Butler (softcover)

Not Our Book!: This is a like-new, unread softcover 2024 autobiography by lord of heavy metal creation Geezer Butler, bassist and lyricist of Black Sabbath. We received a limited supply from Sound of the Beast publisher HarperCollins, and are putting them sale with the devil’s discount mark somewhere on the spine. 

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band’s bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed. 

With over 70 million records sold, Black Sabbath, dubbed by Rolling Stone “the Beatles of heavy metal,” helped create the genre itself, with their distinctive heavy riffs, tuned down guitars, and apocalyptic lyrics. Bassist and primary lyricist Geezer Butler played a gigantic part in the band’s renown, from suggesting the band name to using his fascination with horror, religion, and the occult to compose the lyrics and build the foundation of heavy metal as we know it.

In Into the Void, Butler tells his side of the story, from the band’s beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet in Birmingham through the struggles leading to the many well-documented lineup changes while touring around London’s gritty clubs (Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who makes notable appearances!), and the band’s important later years. He writes honestly of his childhood in a working-class family of seven in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant, and how his disillusionment with organized religion and class systems would spawn the lyrics and artistic themes that would resonate so powerfully with fans around the world.

Into the Void reveals the softer side of the heavy metal legend and the formation of one of rock’s most exciting bands, while holding nothing back. Like Geezer’s bass lines, it is both original, dramatic, and forever surprising.