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Without a doubt, “Paranoid” is the best-known song by the heavy metal-razor Black Sabbath. Everyone can sing along. And of course Ozzy Osbourne can sing it. He is the front man of the British legends. Only: Ozzy didn’t even know what he sang there in the studio. He didn’t know the term. Colleague Geezer Butler had to explain to him “paranoid”.
Paranoia means a mental disorder in medicine, which focuses on delusions. The adjective paranoid that indicates persecution or delusion of persecution is more common.
Butler recalled in the podcast of Bob Lefetze And the emergence of the classic from 1970. “We went to the studio to take up the second album.” You have to put on it for three minutes, “said the bass player.” At that time an album was only considered an album when it was over forty minutes or something.
“What does ‘Paranoid’ mean?”
Guitarist Tony Iommi is said to have had the brilliant idea. “I think I, Ozzy and Bill [Ward] Just traveled to get us a sandwich. When we came back, Tony had developed the reef on ‘Paranoid “. Oh, that’s good. And Ozzy immediately had the vocal lines ready. I wrote down the text and we wrote and recorded it in about two or three hours.”
Since Osbourne had never got really warm with the writing of lyrics, Butler was commissioned to develop the Lyrics. Ozzy got started and then stopped. “What does ‘Paranoid’ mean?” Butler remembers with a laugh. “I explained what paranoid means and he agreed.”
The song begins like this: “Finished with my Woman / ′ Cause She Couldn’t Help Me With My Mind / People Think IeM Insane / Because I am Frowning All the Time”, sings Osbourne, and then: All Day Long I Think of Things / But Nothing Seems To Satisfy / Thl Lose My Mind If I Don’t /Find something to pacify… “What strikes: A very specific word is not sung by the end of the approximately three -minute piece:“ Paranoid ”.