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"Fairies Wear Boots" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, appearing on their 1970 album Paranoid. It was released in 1971 as the B-side to the single "After Forever". On original 1970 US copies of the Paranoid album, the song's intro was listed under the title "Jack the Stripper", formatted as "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear ...
In 2013, Sabbath biographer Mick Wall described the closing track on the album, "Fairies Wear Boots", as a "hard-driving riff sweetened by a beautifully baleful melody" with a lyric written by Osbourne about a nasty encounter with a group of skinheads.
Rose Hill Drive, an American power trio, covered "Fairies Wear Boots" at the 2007 Hyde Park Calling festival. American jam band Widespread Panic covered the song during their summer 2007 tour and opened the 31 Oct 2010 NOLAween show in tribute to Ozzy who was playing at the nearby Voodoo Experience.
When Black Sabbath signed with NEMS, the label which would release their 1975 album Sabotage in the UK, NEMS acquired the band's back catalogue and wasted little time compiling this release. Authorized without the band's awareness by their previous manager, Patrick Meehan , the band would make no money whatsoever from the release.
The Best of Black Sabbath is a double CD compilation album by Black Sabbath released in 2000 on the Sanctuary ... "Fairies Wear Boots" 6:13: 12. "Sweet Leaf" 5:04: 13 ...
At the time, Black Sabbath were suspected by some observers of being Satanists due to their dark sound, image, and lyrics. [11] "After Forever" was released as a single along with "Fairies Wear Boots" in 1971. [14]
Noting that some early fans 'jumped ship' with Vol. 4, Eddy says that other fans regard it as Black Sabbath's best album, which he credits to the album's 'jazz', highlighting parts of "Cornucopia" and a section near the end of "Wheels of Confusion" for boasting a captivating "trancy mesh of thump" in the beat, also adding that "Supernaut" is an ...
The original VHS, released by VCL in a black cardboard sleeve in 1980, [1] was said to contain the tracks "N.I.B." and "Fairies Wear Boots" and, according to the original cover (see image), not "Children of the Grave". However, the video contains "Children of the Grave".