![]() ![]() The stencil logo for the Never Say Die album can be closely recreated with Portago font, with the ‘A’ character obviously substituted for the graphic triangle symbol. This album was originally scheduled to have a completely different front cover design by Hipgnosis (it was eventually used for Rainbow’s “Difficult To Cure” LP – see the alternative design as it might have appeared here at ) This logo was also used by the NEMS record label for the ‘We Sold Our Souls For Rock ‘n’ Roll’ compilation double album in 1976…one of the first times a logo style had been repeated, although it was a cynical label cash-in and not a ‘legitimate’ band release:įutura Demi Bold for both album title and band ‘logo’. Simply uses Futura Extra Black Condensed with a hand drawn, stylised ‘S’. The band logo is simply an Old English blackletter font which is very discretely placed beneath the illustration. ![]() This album features a distinctive hand drawn lettering style for the album title that dominates the front cover above the striking deathbed scene illustration. As you can plainly see, neither is anywhere near close. This work includes material that may be protected as a trademark in some jurisdictions. Date: 21 March 2011: Source: Own work: Author: SunOfErat : Licensing. The original logo is at the top, Baltar font in the middle and Washington Black at the bottom. Italiano : Logo del gruppo inglese Black Sabbath. ![]() Sadly, it’s not Baltar, Balta or Washington Black…it’s hand-drawn and nothing comes close to it in digitised format. Here’s another oft-mistakenly identified Sabbath font. With some warping and emboldening of each individual character in Illustrator or Photoshop it would be possible to accurately recreate this logo style: MASTER OF REALITYĭesigned by Bloomsbury Group and art directed by Mike Stanford, the design is based on distorted and emboldened lettering using the font Kabel Ultra. What’s immediately apparent is that the ‘counters’ or ‘apertures’ of the B A and P characters are missing or filled in. Here’s the album logo and the digitised version below for comparison: There is a reasonable version of this that’s downloadable, called “Dark Black”. PARANOIDĪnother Marcus Keef design and featuring lettering that is obviously hand drawn. There is a digitised version of Manuscript Capitals available for download but it is pretty awfully executed and not really worth downloading in my opinion. Sadly, Mr MacMillan ignored my request for an interview on this and his other album sleeve designs. It would seem therefore that Marcus Keef ( aka Keith MacMillan read this article on ) either used the Letraset letter forms for inspiration and redrew it to suit the wording ‘Black Sabbath’ or it’s from an entirely different source altogether. You can see certain similarities, but far too many differences for it to be a close match. Here’s the logo from the album sleeve with the same characters from Letraset’s “Manuscript Capitals” positioned beneath for comparison: Nearly everybody will try and tell you that the debut album sleeve has a logo that is made up of Letraset “Manuscript Capitals”…and they’re wrong! Close, but wrong!. AC/DC, IRON MAIDEN).īlack Sabbath were no exception to this lack of brand identity in their early years and their sleeve designers used a myriad of logo styles to identify their latest release, with complete disregard for design continuity! It wasn’t until the late 1970s that bands began to see the power of consistently branding their product with the same logo design (e.g. North American versions also usually group "Wasp", "Behind The Wall Of Sleep", "Bassically", and "N.I.B." on one track and "A Bit Of Finger", "Sleeping Village" and "Warning" on another single track, while European versions separate all the tracks.Few, if any, bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s had a specific ‘brand’ logo that was consistently used throughout their album sleeves and merchandise. "A Bit Of Finger" is believed to refer to the acoustic intro of "Sleeping Village". "Bassically" refers to the bass solo that opens "N.I.B.". "Wasp" is believed to refer to the intro of "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" These extra titles are often believed to refer to the intros of certain songs: The North American version also features more song titles than actual songs. Some current CD versions of the album now feature both tracks. The original European version of the record featured the pre-album single "Evil Woman" as the first track on the B-side while the North American version featured the song "Wicked World" (the B-side to the "Evil Woman" single) as the lead track on the second side of the record. The album was recorded in one 8 hour session in October 1969 at Regent Sound Studios. The first studio album by Black Sabbath features the female model Louisa Livingstone. ![]()
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