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2/5/1971 Black Sabbath starts recording sessions for Master of Reality

 

 

Black Sabbath started studio work on its third album on this day in 1971. Master of Reality was as dark and brooding as its cover and was dubbed "stoner metal' and would be the most successful Sabbath release of the band's first 15 years.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 5 include...

 

1942 Three Dog Night's Cory Wells is born.

1944 Blood Sweat & Tears Al Kooper is born

1948 Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest is born

1948 Steve Miller Band's David Denny is born.

1962 Tommy Skeoch of Tesla born.

1962 Ringo Starr debuts with the Beatles at the Cavern Club, filling in for an ailing Pete Best.

1964 Guns N Roses bassist Duff McKagan is born.

1967 UK paper prints story claiming Mick Jagger took LSD with a Moody Blues member. Jagger sues.

1968 Spin Doctors Chris Barron is born.

1970 Mick Ronson's debut as David Bowie's guitarist.

1972 Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon's first post Simon & Garfunkel song, gets released.

1986 Bob Dylan & Tom Petty open world tour in New Zealand.

1991 Queen releases Innuendo.

1992 John Mellencamp does a free concert in Johnson City, Tennessee to protest cable company dropping MTV.

1998 Elton John and Stevie Wonder do sets at the White House.

1998 Slaughter guitarist Tim Kelly dies in a head-on with a tractor trailor on an Arizona highway.

2003 Doors drummer John Densmore sues Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Ian Astbury and Stewart Copeland for touring as Doors of the 21st Century.

2006 Rolling Stones perform during half time at Super Bowl in Pontiac, Michigan.

2015  Historic marker placed at train station platform where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first met on October 17, 1962.

2015 INXS member Tim Farriss says losing a finger in a boating accident could be the end of his career...