BLACK SABBATH Top British Rock Album Poll

February 15, 2005

BLACK SABBATH have topped a list of the 100 best British rock albums of all time, according to Sun Online.

The band's self-titled debut won a poll voted for by readers of Kerrang! magazine, with follow-up "Paranoid" finishing fifth.

Ozzy appears in the list six times, more than any other artist.

Four BLACK SABBATH albums made the Top 100, as well as the star's solo records "Blizzard of Ozz" and "Diary of a Madman".

Ozzy said of making "Black Sabbath": "Back then you'd hear, 'if you go to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair'.

"And we were like, 'what the fuck are they on about?'

"We lived in Aston, Birmingham, in drizzly rain. The only flowers I ever saw were on a gravestone in our local cemetery."

The Top 25 British rock albums, according to Kerrang! readers:

01. BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath
02. IRON MAIDEN - Number Of The Beast
03. SEX PISTOLS - Nevermind The Bollocks
04. LED ZEPPELIN - IV
05. BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
06. MUSE - Absolution
07. THE CLASH - London Calling
08. QUEEN - Sheer Heart Attack
09. IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden
10. MANIC STREET PREACHERS - The Holy Bible
11. LED ZEPPELIN - Physical Graffiti
12. JUDAS PRIEST - British Steel
13. DEF LEPPARD - Hysteria
14. BLACK SABBATH - Volume 4
15. THE DARKNESS - Permission To Land
16. OZZY OSBOURNE - Blizzard Of Ozz
17. THE WILDHEARTS - Earth vs The Wildhearts
18. LOSTPROPHETS - Start Something
19. QUEEN - A Night At The Opera
20. MUSE - Origin Of Symmetry
21. ASH - Free All Angels
22. MOTORHEAD - Ace Of Spades
23. STEREOPHONICS - Performance And Cocktails
24. MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Everything Must Go
25. FEEDER - Echo Park

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