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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%84%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Γκίζερ Μπάτλερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γκίζερ Μπάτλερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Español" 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data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%96%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A8" title="גיזר באטלר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גיזר באטלר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B1" title="جيزر باتلر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جيزر باتلر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC" title="ギーザー・バトラー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ギーザー・バトラー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Батлер, Гизер – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Батлер, Гизер" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Гизер Батлер – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Гизер Батлер" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler" title="Geezer Butler – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Geezer Butler" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a 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href="/wiki/File:2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Butler performing with Deadland Ritual in 2019"><img alt="Butler performing with Deadland Ritual in 2019" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg/220px-2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg/330px-2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg/440px-2019_RiP_Deadland_Ritual_-_Geezer_Butler_-_by_2eight_-_8SC9785.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1367" data-file-height="2048" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Butler performing with <a href="/wiki/Deadland_Ritual" title="Deadland Ritual">Deadland Ritual</a> in 2019</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Terence Michael Joseph Butler</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1949-07-17</span>) </span>17 July 1949<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 75)</span><sup id="cite_ref-gtkg_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gtkg-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd 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ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">Heavy metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doom_metal" title="Doom metal">doom metal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blues_rock" title="Blues rock">blues rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hard_rock" title="Hard rock">hard rock</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Musician</li> <li>songwriter</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument</th><td class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Bass guitar</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>1967–2025</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanctuary_Records" title="Sanctuary Records">Sanctuary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TVT_Records" title="TVT Records">TVT</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" title="Ozzy Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</a><br /><a href="/wiki/GZR" title="GZR">GZR</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Geezer_Butler_Band" title="Geezer Butler Band">Geezer Butler Band</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Deadland_Ritual" title="Deadland Ritual">Deadland Ritual</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geezerbutler.com">geezerbutler<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Terence Michael Joseph</b> "<b>Geezer</b>" <b>Butler</b> (born 17 July 1949)<sup id="cite_ref-gtkg_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gtkg-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a>. He has also recorded and performed with <a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a>, <a href="/wiki/GZR" title="GZR">GZR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" title="Ozzy Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Deadland_Ritual" title="Deadland Ritual">Deadland Ritual</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Butler adopted the nickname "Geezer" at an early age. "It came because when I was at school, my brother was in the army, and he was based with a lot of Cockneys. And people in London call everybody a 'geezer.' [It means] just a man — like, 'Hello, mate.' It's just like somebody calling you 'dude' over here (in the United States). In England, it'd be 'geezer.' So my brother used to come home from leave from the army, and he'd be going, 'Hello, geezer. How are you, geezer?' So because I had looked up to my brother when I was about seven years old, I'd go to school calling everybody a geezer. So that's how I got cursed with it."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler grew up in a working-class <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Catholic">Irish Catholic</a> family, the son of James and Mary Butler. He had six siblings.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father had served in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scots_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Scots Regiment">Royal Scots Regiment</a> and later settled in Birmingham, where he worked for an engineering company. Mary had worked as a nanny in her younger years and became a housewife after marrying James in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both of his parents were born in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-iommibook_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iommibook-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family had seven children and were poor, typically having "no money whatsoever".<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was born in the family house on Victoria Road in the Aston section of Birmingham, a house that had been damaged by <a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> bombs during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. When he was just one day old, his older sister Eileen tried to toss him out a bedroom window in a fit of jealousy.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler has said that he enjoyed an "incredibly loving, happy childhood".<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family home had no telephone, hot water or bathroom, and considered itself lucky to have their own outside toilet.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two of Butler's older brothers had been called upon to serve in the army and Butler feared that he would be next. However, mandatory <a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Kingdom#After_1945" title="Conscription in the United Kingdom">national service</a> was ended in the United Kingdom a couple of years before he was due to be conscripted.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the age of ten, Butler passed a test and was invited to attend Birmingham's prestigious Holte Grammar School in 1960. Learning English literature such as <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> furthered his love of reading, and he says "I never went a day without reading <i>something</i>." He credits this education, along with his vivid imagination, for the composition skills he would later utilise as Black Sabbath's lyricist.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later heavily influenced by the writing of <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a> as a teenager.<sup id="cite_ref-iommibook_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iommibook-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By his late teens, he had stopped attending <a href="/wiki/Mass_(liturgy)" title="Mass (liturgy)">Mass</a>. He cited a loss of belief, and feels that everyone should sooner or later decide for themselves what to believe in. By the end, Butler was "going to Mass every Sunday just to take a look at all the nice girls that were going there", he recalled years later.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After growing his hair long as a teenager, he would encounter a nun every Sunday at <a href="/wiki/Mass_(liturgy)" title="Mass (liturgy)">Mass</a> who found it humorous to refer to Butler as "miss", and he soon decided to never go back.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler became obsessed with <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Kinks" title="The Kinks">The Kinks</a>, and later <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a>. When The Beatles appeared on a Birmingham television program called <i>Thank Your Lucky Stars</i> in January 1963, Butler waited outside the studio to get a glimpse of them. It was here that he met another Beatles' fan, <a href="/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" title="Ozzy Osbourne">John "Ozzy" Osbourne</a>, for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Geezer1970.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Geezer1970.jpg/150px-Geezer1970.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Geezer1970.jpg/225px-Geezer1970.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Geezer1970.jpg/300px-Geezer1970.jpg 2x" data-file-width="759" data-file-height="1352" /></a><figcaption>Butler in 1970</figcaption></figure> <p>Butler joined his first band, the Ruums,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> named after an <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Porges" title="Arthur Porges">Arthur Porges</a> science fiction story, in 1965. His first professional gig was with the Ruums at the Parochial Hall in <a href="/wiki/Erdington" title="Erdington">Erdington</a>, where they performed covers of various <a href="/wiki/Merseybeat" class="mw-redirect" title="Merseybeat">Merseybeat</a> bands. The Ruums would perform only a handful of local gigs before breaking up, but it was long enough for Butler to decide that he wanted to devote his life to music.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 1967, Butler formed the band The Rare Breed, with an acquaintance named Ozzy Osbourne soon joining as lead vocalist. At that time, Butler was dating a girl named Georgina who lived near <a href="/wiki/Tony_Iommi" title="Tony Iommi">Tony Iommi</a>, and Iommi's earliest memories of Butler involved seeing him walking past his house every day to visit her. Georgina would later become Butler's first wife.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, Iommi and Butler became acquainted when their bands played at a nearby nightclub.<sup id="cite_ref-iommibook_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iommibook-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Separated for a time after The Rare Breed disbanded, Butler and Osbourne reunited to form the blues foursome Polka Tulk, along with guitarist Iommi and drummer <a href="/wiki/Bill_Ward_(musician)" title="Bill Ward (musician)">Bill Ward</a>, both of whom had recently left a local blues band called Mythology. Polka Tulk was soon rebranded as Earth, but a band already existed in the small-time English circuit with the same name, so they were forced to change the name again to avoid confusion. Inspired by the popular <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a> horror film of the same name, Butler suggested the name <a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(film)" title="Black Sabbath (film)">Black Sabbath</a> in early 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-allmusic_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allmusic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Inspired by <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>, Butler played rhythm guitar in his pre-Sabbath days, including with The Rare Breed. When Sabbath was formed, Iommi made it clear that he did not want to play with another guitarist, so Butler moved to bass.<sup id="cite_ref-ampeg_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ampeg-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Butler, "I'd never played bass until I was on stage at the first gig that we played. Borrowed the bass guitar off one of my friends and it only had three strings on it."<sup id="cite_ref-gazette_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gazette-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Butler lists <a href="/wiki/Jack_Bruce" title="Jack Bruce">Jack Bruce</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a> as his biggest influence as a bassist. Iommi described Butler as being "from another planet" in the band's early days; he took <a href="/wiki/LSD" title="LSD">LSD</a>, wore Indian hippie dresses, and was very peaceful.<sup id="cite_ref-iommibook_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iommibook-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time Black Sabbath was formed, Butler had been hired by a Birmingham steel company to train in the accounting department, and this business experience resulted in him managing the band's finances in the early days.<sup id="cite_ref-iommibook_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iommibook-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the summer of 1977, drummer Bill Ward visited Butler at his <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a> home to inform him he had been fired from Black Sabbath after a band meeting, telling him that Iommi and Osbourne questioned his commitment. Butler said he was "pissed off" yet relieved, and spent the following two or three weeks resting and getting healthy, not giving much thought to what he would do next. He then received a phone call from Ward inviting him to rehearsals which were starting the next day. Upon returning to the band, Butler says Iommi and Osbourne both denied any involvement in his firing, with Ward claiming he had merely been the messenger. He says he was never offered an explanation. The event changed Butler's attitude towards Black Sabbath and he was never able to completely trust his bandmates again, saying "a little bit of me died back then". He has said that he did not really want to return but did so only because he had nothing else going on musically.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Black Sabbath fired Osbourne in 1979, Butler also briefly left the band to deal with the divorce from his first wife. The 1980 album <i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath album)">Heaven and Hell</a></i> was recorded with bassist <a href="/wiki/Craig_Gruber" title="Craig Gruber">Craig Gruber</a> but Butler returned to the band at the last minute and re-recorded the bass parts prior to release.<sup id="cite_ref-hotten_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hotten-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He again left the band in 1984 after touring in support of their 1983 album, <i><a href="/wiki/Born_Again_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Born Again (Black Sabbath album)">Born Again</a></i>, although he returned months later as the band attempted a comeback with vocalist <a href="/wiki/David_Donato_(singer)" title="David Donato (singer)">David Donato</a>. </p><p>In 1988, Butler joined the backing band of his former Sabbath bandmate Osbourne to take part in the <i><a href="/wiki/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)">No Rest for the Wicked</a></i> World Tour. He rejoined Black Sabbath in 1991 for the reunion of the <i><a href="/wiki/Mob_Rules_(album)" title="Mob Rules (album)">Mob Rules</a></i> line-up, but again quit the group after the <i><a href="/wiki/Cross_Purposes" title="Cross Purposes">Cross Purposes</a></i> tour in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-allmusic_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allmusic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1995 Butler again joined Osbourne's band to perform on the <i><a href="/wiki/Ozzmosis" title="Ozzmosis">Ozzmosis</a></i> album.<sup id="cite_ref-black_science_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-black_science-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After recording <i>Ozzmosis</i>, he formed <a href="/wiki/G/Z/R" class="mw-redirect" title="G/Z/R">G/Z/R</a>, issuing <i>Plastic Planet</i> in 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-plastic_planet_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-plastic_planet-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His next solo album, <i>Black Science,</i> followed in 1997. Butler returned to Sabbath once more for the 1997 edition of <a href="/wiki/Ozzfest" title="Ozzfest">Ozzfest</a>, and has remained with the band since. In 2005 he released <i><a href="/wiki/Ohmwork" title="Ohmwork">Ohmwork</a></i>, his third solo album. In October 2006 it was announced that Butler, along with <a href="/wiki/Tony_Iommi" title="Tony Iommi">Tony Iommi</a>, would be reforming the <i><a href="/wiki/Dehumanizer" title="Dehumanizer">Dehumanizer</a></i>-era Black Sabbath line-up with <a href="/wiki/Vinny_Appice" title="Vinny Appice">Vinny Appice</a> and Ronnie James Dio, under the name <a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a> to differentiate between the reunited touring band fronted by Osbourne, and the Dio-fronted version of the band.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He rejoined Iommi and Osbourne to record <i><a href="/wiki/13_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="13 (Black Sabbath album)">13</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_Reunion_Tour" title="Black Sabbath Reunion Tour">toured in support</a> of the album from 2012 to 2014. He and Black Sabbath later embarked on their <a href="/wiki/The_End_Tour" title="The End Tour">final tour</a> which began in January 2016, and concluded in February 2017. </p><p>In 2023, Butler published his autobiography <i>Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath—And Beyond</i>. He also provided the narrating voice for the audio-book version.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, he made a brief appearance during Foo Fighter's performance in Birmingham in June 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_legacy">Style and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Style and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_(51412969437).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg/220px-Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg/330px-Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg/440px-Geezer_Butler_Black_Sabbath_%2851412969437%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1051" data-file-height="1170" /></a><figcaption>Butler with <a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath" title="Black Sabbath">Black Sabbath</a> in 1983.</figcaption></figure> <p>Butler learned guitar as a teenager on an old acoustic that had only two strings. He could not afford the new strings needed to play chords, so he taught himself to play melody lines on the two strings. He says that due to this limitation he developed a "very strange style" which would later serve him well when he switched to bass guitar after forming Black Sabbath.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, his older brother Jimmy gifted him a brand new Rosetti acoustic guitar that cost him two weeks salary, an act of kindness that Butler says changed his life forever. With a proper instrument, Butler learned chords from the <a href="/wiki/Bert_Weedon" title="Bert Weedon">Bert Weedon</a> book <i>Play in a Day</i> and saved enough money for a new <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6fner" title="Höfner">Höfner</a> Colorama electric guitar and Bird Golden Eagle amplifier. Soon after, he joined his first band.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler is noted for his melodic playing, and as being one of the first bassists to use a <a href="/wiki/Wah_pedal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wah pedal">wah pedal</a> and to down-tune his instrument (from the standard E-A-D-G to the lower C#-F#-B-E), as exemplified on Black Sabbath's <i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_Reality" title="Master of Reality">Master of Reality</a></i> album, to match Iommi who had started tuning his guitar to C# (a minor third down).<sup id="cite_ref-ampeg_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ampeg-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the band's Ozzy Osbourne era, Butler wrote most of the band's lyrics, drawing heavily upon his fascination with religion, science-fiction, fantasy and horror, and musings on the darker side of human nature that posed a constant threat of global annihilation.<sup id="cite_ref-allmusic_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-allmusic-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler is regarded as one of the most influential bassists in <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>. <a href="/wiki/Billy_Sheehan" title="Billy Sheehan">Billy Sheehan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mr._Big_(American_band)" title="Mr. Big (American band)">Mr. Big</a> said: "He's a founding father of a whole genre of music and a man who really set the bar early on to be such an integral part of the sound and song structure of Sabbath".<sup id="cite_ref-loudwire_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loudwire-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Mick Wall's biography of <a href="/wiki/Iron_Maiden" title="Iron Maiden">Iron Maiden</a> entitled <i>Run to the Hills</i>, founder <a href="/wiki/Steve_Harris_(musician)" title="Steve Harris (musician)">Steve Harris</a> recalls: "I distinctly remember trying to play along to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" – at first I just could not get it. I threw the guitar on my bed and walked out in a huff, but the next day I came back, picked it up and played it all the way through note-for-note! Once I got going, I started getting into bass-lines with a bit more subtlety to them." </p><p>Former <a href="/wiki/Metallica" title="Metallica">Metallica</a> bassist <a href="/wiki/Jason_Newsted" title="Jason Newsted">Jason Newsted</a>, who defined him his "number 1 influence," stated: "All true metal bassists look up to Geezer as a pioneer and Godfather of our chosen instrument. The best, ever."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rex_Brown" title="Rex Brown">Rex Brown</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pantera" title="Pantera">Pantera</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kill_Devil_Hill_(band)" title="Kill Devil Hill (band)">Kill Devil Hill</a> asserted: "He's a legend. He's everything. Geezer is so much of an influence on me.<sup id="cite_ref-loudwire_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loudwire-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other bassists such as <a href="/wiki/Peter_Steele" title="Peter Steele">Peter Steele</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Burton" title="Cliff Burton">Cliff Burton</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have also listed Butler as an influence. </p><p>In 2020, he was ranked 21st in <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>'s list <i>50 Greatest Bassists of All Time</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg/220px-GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg/330px-GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg/440px-GeezerHeavenAndHell_.jpg 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="814" /></a><figcaption>Butler performing with <a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a> in 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>Butler met his first wife Georgina at a school dance at Holte Grammar School in Birmingham as a teenager.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple divorced in 1980. Butler had already met his second wife, Gloria, on 16 September 1978 just prior to Black Sabbath's concert at the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Arena" title="St. Louis Arena">Checkerdome</a> in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis, Missouri</a>. Gloria later served as manager for <a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Butlers also share their Los Angeles home with several cats, of whom he has posted pictures on his website.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His oldest son, Biff Butler, was the vocalist for <a href="/wiki/Nu_metal" title="Nu metal">nu metal</a> band <a href="/wiki/Apartment_26" title="Apartment 26">Apartment 26</a>. Butler has stated that Biff is very religious and brings up his children in the Catholic faith.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Butler's other son James earned a degree in social sciences from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford University</a> and resides in London. Butler describes him as "very politically minded". "My youngest is extremely left-wing, and I think it's because he was brought up knowing wealth and money, whereas I was brought up having no money whatsoever. That's where the church came in and made up for the lack of money because everybody knew each other in the street and everybody used to help each other out", Butler said.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to his love of animals, Butler became a strict vegetarian as a child and later became a <a href="/wiki/Veganism" title="Veganism">vegan</a> in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guitarworld_peta_ad_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guitarworld_peta_ad-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a pet dog named Scamp in the 1950s who he "got to love more than any human friend" and the family house was "full of pets". Upon discovering where meat came from, he resolved to never eat it again.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother was also a vegetarian.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Butler appeared in a promotional ad for <a href="/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals" title="People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</a> in 2009<sup id="cite_ref-guitarworld_peta_ad_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guitarworld_peta_ad-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later urged fans to boycott <a href="/wiki/Fortnum_%26_Mason" title="Fortnum & Mason">Fortnum & Mason</a> until they remove <a href="/wiki/Foie_gras" title="Foie gras">foie gras</a> from their shelves. Butler said, "I've seen some outrageous things in my time, but watching those poor birds suffer simply so that their diseased livers can be sold on your shop floor is horrific!"<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Butler is a lifelong supporter of <a href="/wiki/Aston_Villa_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Aston Villa Football Club">Aston Villa Football Club</a>, and during Black Sabbath's induction to the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>, Butler is heard shouting "Up the Villa" as the members of the band left the stage. He has referred to AVFC as his "second religion" (after Catholicism) in his younger days<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2023 he said that the team had become his "only religion", having become disillusioned with the Catholic church.<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the family house on Victoria Road in Aston, Butler could hear the roar of the crowd at nearby Villa Park, and he has said that hearing such cheering every week had a profound effect on him as a small child. He started attending games anytime he could and lists former Aston Villa star <a href="/wiki/Peter_McParland" title="Peter McParland">Peter McParland</a> as his "all-time hero".<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Black Sabbath bandmate <a href="/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne" title="Ozzy Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</a>, Butler "never uses foul language".<sup id="cite_ref-IAmOzzy_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IAmOzzy-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A bin-man (refuse collector) had called him an "Irish cunt" when he was a small child, and he repeated the word at the family dinner table that evening, asking what it meant. His father told him that only ignorant people swear, and Butler was subsequently beaten with a belt. He says that to this day he seldom swears "despite spending thousands of days in the company of Ozzy Osbourne".<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the years, Butler has become disillusioned with politics, saying "For me, it's almost pointless voting anymore because it seems to be the same no matter what party or politics you stand for. It all seems corrupted to me. It's all the same old people that rule the world."<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has also expressed concern over the increasing level of control government has in people's lives. "Every time I go back to England, there are things that totally surprise me that you never think would happen in England, just all the <a href="/wiki/Closed-circuit_television" title="Closed-circuit television">CCTV</a> everywhere. There seems to be so much control over people these days", he said in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-reesman_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reesman-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has similarly become completely disillusioned with religion, calling it "inherited brainwashing".<sup id="cite_ref-2023_autobiography_4-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_autobiography-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2015, Butler was briefly detained after a bar brawl in <a href="/wiki/Death_Valley" title="Death Valley">Death Valley</a>, California and charged with <a href="/wiki/Misdemeanor_assault" class="mw-redirect" title="Misdemeanor assault">misdemeanour assault</a>, <a href="/wiki/Public_intoxication" title="Public intoxication">public intoxication</a> and vandalism. He was released following detoxification and a citation.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016 he opened up about the event: "This guy started mouthing off about something. He was, like, some drunken Nazi bloke. He [...] started going on about Jews and everything – Jews this, Jews that. My missus is Jewish and I'd just had enough, and me hand sort of met his chin. I whacked him one."<sup id="cite_ref-LoudwireJune2016_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LoudwireJune2016-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2023, he announced his retirement from performing.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He initially ruled out a Black Sabbath reunion, saying the band was "put to bed",<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though a one-off show was later announced in February 2025 to take place in July of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Blabbermouth.net_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blabbermouth.net-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Butler endorses <a href="/wiki/Lakland" title="Lakland">Lakland</a> basses and has his own signature model,<sup id="cite_ref-lakland_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lakland-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as <a href="/wiki/DR_Handmade_Strings" title="DR Handmade Strings">DR Strings</a>, <a href="/wiki/EMG,_Inc." title="EMG, Inc.">EMG pick-ups</a>, and Hartke amplifiers.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <dl><dt>Studio albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>1995: <i><a href="/wiki/Plastic_Planet" title="Plastic Planet">Plastic Planet</a></i> (as "<a href="/wiki/G//z/r" class="mw-redirect" title="G//z/r">g//z/r</a>")</li> <li>1997: <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Science_(GZR_album)" title="Black Science (GZR album)">Black Science</a></i> (as <a href="/wiki/GZR" title="GZR">"geezer"</a>)</li> <li>2005: <i><a href="/wiki/Ohmwork" title="Ohmwork">Ohmwork</a></i> (as "<a href="/wiki/GZR" title="GZR">GZR</a>")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ozzy_Osbourne">Ozzy Osbourne</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ozzy Osbourne"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Studio albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>1995: <i><a href="/wiki/Ozzmosis" title="Ozzmosis">Ozzmosis</a></i></li></ul> <dl><dt>EPs and live albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>1990: <i><a href="/wiki/Just_Say_Ozzy" title="Just Say Ozzy">Just Say Ozzy</a></i></li> <li>1993: <i><a href="/wiki/Live_%26_Loud" title="Live & Loud">Live & Loud</a></i> ("<a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(song)" title="Black Sabbath (song)">Black Sabbath</a>")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heaven_&_Hell"><span id="Heaven_.26_Hell"></span>Heaven & Hell</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Heaven & Hell"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Studio albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>2009: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_You_Know_(Heaven_and_Hell_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Devil You Know (Heaven and Hell album)">The Devil You Know</a></i></li></ul> <dl><dt>Live albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>2007: <i><a href="/wiki/Live_from_Radio_City_Music_Hall_(Heaven_%26_Hell_album)" title="Live from Radio City Music Hall (Heaven & Hell album)">Live from Radio City Music Hall</a></i></li> <li>2010: <i><a href="/wiki/Neon_Nights:_30_Years_of_Heaven_%26_Hell" title="Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell">Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & Hell</a></i></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Black_Sabbath">Black Sabbath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Black Sabbath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Studio albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>1970: <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(album)" title="Black Sabbath (album)">Black Sabbath</a></i></li> <li>1970: <i><a href="/wiki/Paranoid_(album)" title="Paranoid (album)">Paranoid</a></i></li> <li>1971: <i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_Reality" title="Master of Reality">Master of Reality</a></i></li> <li>1972: <i><a href="/wiki/Vol._4_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Vol. 4 (Black Sabbath album)">Vol. 4</a></i></li> <li>1973: <i><a href="/wiki/Sabbath_Bloody_Sabbath" title="Sabbath Bloody Sabbath">Sabbath Bloody Sabbath</a></i></li> <li>1975: <i><a href="/wiki/Sabotage_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)">Sabotage</a></i></li> <li>1976: <i><a href="/wiki/Technical_Ecstasy" title="Technical Ecstasy">Technical Ecstasy</a></i></li> <li>1978: <i><a href="/wiki/Never_Say_Die!" title="Never Say Die!">Never Say Die!</a></i></li> <li>1980: <i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath album)">Heaven and Hell</a></i></li> <li>1981: <i><a href="/wiki/Mob_Rules_(album)" title="Mob Rules (album)">Mob Rules</a></i></li> <li>1983: <i><a href="/wiki/Born_Again_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Born Again (Black Sabbath album)">Born Again</a></i></li> <li>1992: <i><a href="/wiki/Dehumanizer" title="Dehumanizer">Dehumanizer</a></i></li> <li>1994: <i><a href="/wiki/Cross_Purposes" title="Cross Purposes">Cross Purposes</a></i></li> <li>2013: <i><a href="/wiki/13_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="13 (Black Sabbath album)">13</a></i></li></ul> <dl><dt>EPs and live albums</dt></dl> <ul><li>1982: <i><a href="/wiki/Live_Evil_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Live Evil (Black Sabbath album)">Live Evil</a></i></li> <li>1995: <i><a href="/wiki/Cross_Purposes_Live" title="Cross Purposes Live">Cross Purposes Live</a></i></li> <li>1998: <i><a href="/wiki/Reunion_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Reunion (Black Sabbath album)">Reunion</a></i></li> <li>2013: <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Live%E2%80%A6_Gathered_in_Their_Masses&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Live… Gathered in Their Masses (page does not exist)">Live… Gathered in Their Masses</a></i></li> <li>2016: <i><a href="/wiki/The_End_(Black_Sabbath_EP)" class="mw-redirect" title="The End (Black Sabbath EP)">The End</a></i></li> <li>2017: <i><a href="/wiki/The_End:_Live_in_Birmingham" title="The End: Live in Birmingham">The End: Live in Birmingham</a></i></li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Geezer_Butler&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Gathered in Their Masses">Live... Gathered in Their Masses</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End:_Live_in_Birmingham" title="The End: Live in Birmingham">The End: Live in Birmingham</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/We_Sold_Our_Soul_for_Rock_%27n%27_Roll" title="We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll">We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collection_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="The Collection (Black Sabbath album)">The Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sabbath_Stones" title="The Sabbath Stones">The Sabbath Stones</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Symptom_of_the_Universe:_The_Original_Black_Sabbath_1970%E2%80%931978" title="Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978">Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Box:_The_Complete_Original_Black_Sabbath_1970%E2%80%931978" title="Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978">Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_1970%E2%80%931978" title="Greatest Hits 1970–1978">Greatest Hits 1970–1978</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath:_The_Dio_Years" title="Black Sabbath: The Dio Years">The Dio Years</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rules_of_Hell" title="The Rules of Hell">The Rules of Hell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="Greatest Hits (Black Sabbath album)">Greatest Hits</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iron_Man:_The_Best_of_Black_Sabbath" title="Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath">Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Collection_(Black_Sabbath_album)" title="The Ultimate Collection (Black Sabbath album)">The Ultimate Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anno_Domini_1989%E2%80%931995" title="Anno Domini 1989–1995">Anno Domini 1989–1995</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Unofficial albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sabbath_Collection" title="The Sabbath Collection">The Sabbath Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ozzy_Osbourne_Years" title="The Ozzy Osbourne Years">The Ozzy Osbourne Years</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Under_Wheels_of_Confusion" title="Under Wheels of Confusion">Under Wheels of Confusion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Black_Sabbath" title="The Best of Black Sabbath">The Best of Black Sabbath</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(compilation)" title="Black Sabbath (compilation)">Club Sonderauflage</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Evil_Woman_(Crow_song)#Black_Sabbath_version" title="Evil Woman (Crow song)">Evil Woman</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wizard_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="The Wizard (Black Sabbath song)">The Wizard</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Paranoid_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)">Paranoid</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Iron_Man_(song)" title="Iron Man (song)">Iron Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Children_of_the_Grave" title="Children of the Grave">Children of the Grave</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sabbath_Bloody_Sabbath_(song)" title="Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (song)">Sabbath Bloody Sabbath</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Am_I_Going_Insane_(Radio)" title="Am I Going Insane (Radio)">Am I Going Insane (Radio)</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Neon_Knights" title="Neon Knights">Neon Knights</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Trashed_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Trashed (Black Sabbath song)">Trashed</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Psycho_Man_(song)" title="Psycho Man (song)">Psycho Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/God_Is_Dead%3F" title="God Is Dead?">God Is Dead?</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/End_of_the_Beginning_(song)" title="End of the Beginning (song)">End of the Beginning</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(song)" title="Black Sabbath (song)">Black Sabbath</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/N.I.B." title="N.I.B.">N.I.B.</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/War_Pigs" title="War Pigs">War Pigs</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Planet_Caravan" title="Planet Caravan">Planet Caravan</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hand_of_Doom" title="Hand of Doom">Hand of Doom</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fairies_Wear_Boots" title="Fairies Wear Boots">Fairies Wear Boots</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Leaf" title="Sweet Leaf">Sweet Leaf</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Reality" title="Master of Reality">After Forever</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Into_the_Void_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Into the Void (Black Sabbath song)">Into the Void</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Changes_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Changes (Black Sabbath song)">Changes</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Supernaut_(song)" title="Supernaut (song)">Supernaut</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hole_in_the_Sky_(song)" title="Hole in the Sky (song)">Hole in the Sky</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Symptom_of_the_Universe" title="Symptom of the Universe">Symptom of the Universe</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Children_of_the_Sea_(song)" title="Children of the Sea (song)">Children of the Sea</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath song)">Heaven and Hell</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Videos</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Never_Say_Die_(video)" title="Never Say Die (video)">Never Say Die</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_and_Blue_(video)" title="Black and Blue (video)">Black and Blue</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Sabbath_Story,_Vol._1" title="The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 1">The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Sabbath_Story,_Vol._2" title="The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 2">The Black Sabbath Story, Vol. 2</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cross_Purposes_Live" title="Cross Purposes Live">Cross Purposes Live</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Black_Sabbath_video)" title="The Last Supper (Black Sabbath video)">The Last Supper</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Black_Sabbath_%E2%80%93_1970%E2%80%931992" title="Inside Black Sabbath – 1970–1992">Inside Black Sabbath - 1970–1992</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hangin%27_with_Heaven_and_Hell" title="Hangin' with Heaven and Hell">Hangin' with Heaven and Hell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live..._Gathered_in_Their_Masses" title="Live... Gathered in Their Masses">Live... Gathered in Their Masses</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath:_The_End_of_the_End" title="Black Sabbath: The End of the End">Black Sabbath: The End of the End</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Technical_Ecstasy_Tour" title="Technical Ecstasy Tour">Technical Ecstasy Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Never_Say_Die!_Tour_(Black_Sabbath)" title="Never Say Die! Tour (Black Sabbath)">Never Say Die! Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_Tour" title="Heaven & Hell Tour">Heaven & Hell Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mob_Rules_Tour" title="Mob Rules Tour">Mob Rules Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Born_Again_Tour" title="Born Again Tour">Born Again Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozzfest" title="Ozzfest">Ozzfest</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ozzfest_lineups_by_year" title="Ozzfest lineups by year">lineups</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_Reunion_Tour" title="Black Sabbath Reunion Tour">Black Sabbath Reunion Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_End_Tour" title="The End Tour">The End Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Back_to_the_Beginning" title="Back to the Beginning">Back to the Beginning</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Sabbath_discography" title="Black Sabbath discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Black_Sabbath_and_Heaven_%26_Hell_members" title="List of Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell members">Members</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_Black_Sabbath_songs" title="List of cover versions of Black Sabbath songs">List of cover versions of Black Sabbath songs</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_These_Black_Days" title="In These Black Days">In These Black Days</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nativity_in_Black:_A_Tribute_to_Black_Sabbath" title="Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath">Nativity in Black</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaven_%26_Hell_(band)" title="Heaven & Hell (band)">Heaven & Hell</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell_2007_Tour" title="Heaven and Hell 2007 Tour">tour</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_You_Know_(Heaven_%26_Hell_album)" title="The Devil You Know (Heaven & Hell album)">The Devil You Know</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a 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Madman (album)">Diary of a Madman</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bark_at_the_Moon" title="Bark at the Moon">Bark at the Moon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Sin" title="The Ultimate Sin">The Ultimate Sin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)">No Rest for the Wicked</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_More_Tears" title="No More Tears">No More Tears</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ozzmosis" title="Ozzmosis">Ozzmosis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Down_to_Earth_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Down to Earth (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Down to Earth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Under_Cover" title="Under Cover">Under Cover</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Rain_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Black Rain (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Black Rain</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scream_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Scream (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Scream</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ordinary_Man_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Ordinary Man (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Ordinary Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patient_Number_9" title="Patient Number 9">Patient Number 9</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Speak_of_the_Devil_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Speak of the Devil (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Speak of the Devil</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tribute_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Tribute</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_%26_Loud" title="Live & Loud">Live & Loud</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Budokan_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Live at Budokan (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Live at Budokan</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Extended plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ozzy_Osbourne_Live_E.P." title="Ozzy Osbourne Live E.P.">Mr. Crowley Live EP</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_Say_Ozzy" title="Just Say Ozzy">Just Say Ozzy</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations/box sets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Best_of_Ozz" title="Best of Ozz">Best of Ozz</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Ten Commandments (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Ten Commandments</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ozzman_Cometh" title="The Ozzman Cometh">The Ozzman Cometh</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Essential_Ozzy_Osbourne" title="The Essential Ozzy Osbourne">The Essential Ozzy Osbourne</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Darkness_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album)" title="Prince of Darkness (Ozzy Osbourne album)">Prince of Darkness</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Madman_(album)" title="Memoirs of a Madman (album)">Memoirs of a Madman</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Crazy_Train" title="Crazy Train">Crazy Train</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mr._Crowley" title="Mr. Crowley">Mr. Crowley</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Flying_High_Again" title="Flying High Again">Flying High Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Over_the_Mountain" title="Over the Mountain">Over the Mountain</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Symptom_of_the_Universe" title="Symptom of the Universe">Symptom of the Universe</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Paranoid_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)">Paranoid</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bark_at_the_Moon_(song)" title="Bark at the Moon (song)">Bark at the Moon</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Shot_in_the_Dark_(Ozzy_Osbourne_song)" title="Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne song)">Shot in the Dark</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/No_More_Tears_(Ozzy_Osbourne_song)" title="No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne song)">No More Tears</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mama,_I%27m_Coming_Home" title="Mama, I'm Coming Home">Mama, I'm Coming Home</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Changes_(Black_Sabbath_song)" title="Changes (Black Sabbath song)">Changes</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men" title="Pictures of Matchstick Men">Pictures of Matchstick Men</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gets_Me_Through" title="Gets Me Through">Gets Me Through</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dreamer_(Ozzy_Osbourne_song)" title="Dreamer (Ozzy Osbourne song)">Dreamer</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_My_Life" title="In My Life">In My Life</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Don%27t_Wanna_Stop" title="I Don't Wanna Stop">I Don't Wanna Stop</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Not_Going_Away" title="Not Going Away">Not Going Away</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/How%3F_(song)" title="How? (song)">How?</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Under_the_Graveyard" title="Under the Graveyard">Under the Graveyard</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ordinary_Man_(Ozzy_Osbourne_song)" title="Ordinary Man (Ozzy Osbourne song)">Ordinary Man</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It%27s_a_Raid" title="It's a Raid">It's a Raid</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Featured singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Close_My_Eyes_Forever" title="Close My Eyes Forever">Close My Eyes Forever</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hey_Stoopid_(song)" title="Hey Stoopid (song)">Hey Stoopid</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Shake_Your_Head" title="Shake Your Head">Shake Your Head</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Shock_the_Monkey" title="Shock the Monkey">Shock the Monkey</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/N.I.B." title="N.I.B.">N.I.B.</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Stillborn_(song)" title="Stillborn (song)">Stillborn</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Take_What_You_Want" title="Take What You Want">Take What You Want</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Goodbye_to_Romance_(song)" title="Goodbye to Romance (song)">Goodbye to Romance</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Suicide_Solution" title="Suicide Solution">Suicide Solution</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Don%27t_Want_to_Change_the_World" title="I Don't Want to Change the World">I Don't Want to Change the World</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hellraiser_(Ozzy_Osbourne_and_Mot%C3%B6rhead_song)" title="Hellraiser (Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead song)">Hellraiser</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concert tours</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blizzard_of_Ozz_Tour" title="Blizzard of Ozz Tour">Blizzard of Ozz Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diary_of_a_Madman_Tour" title="Diary of a Madman Tour">Diary of a Madman Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speak_of_the_Devil_Tour" title="Speak of the Devil Tour">Speak of the Devil Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bark_at_the_Moon_Tour" title="Bark at the Moon Tour">Bark at the Moon Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ultimate_Sin_Tour" title="The Ultimate Sin Tour">The Ultimate Sin Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked_Tour" title="No Rest for the Wicked Tour">No Rest for the Wicked Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_More_Tours_Tour" title="No More Tours Tour">No More Tours Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozzfest" title="Ozzfest">Ozzfest</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ozzfest_lineups_by_year" title="Ozzfest lineups by year">Ozzfest lineups by year</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merry_Mayhem_Tour" title="Merry Mayhem Tour">Merry Mayhem Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozzy_and_Friends_Tour" title="Ozzy and Friends Tour">Ozzy and Friends Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_More_Tours_II" title="No More Tours II">No More Tours II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ozzy_Osbourne_members" title="List of Ozzy Osbourne members">Former band members</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks vcard navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guitarists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Rhoads" title="Randy Rhoads">Randy Rhoads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernie_Torm%C3%A9" title="Bernie Tormé">Bernie Tormé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Gillis" title="Brad Gillis">Brad Gillis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jake_E._Lee" title="Jake E. 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