| "The Wizard" | ||||
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| Single by Black Sabbath | ||||
| from the album Black Sabbath | ||||
| Released | 24 March 1970 (France)[1] | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal[2][3] | |||
| Length | 4:24 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Rodger Bain | |||
| Black Sabbath singles chronology | ||||
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"The Wizard" is a song by the English rock band Black Sabbath from their 1970 album Black Sabbath. "The Wizard" was selected as their debut single in France, backed by "Evil Woman" which was released as A-side in many other countries. It was also the B-side to the 1970 single "Paranoid", which reached number 4 on the UK singles chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4]
- ^ "Black Sabbath singles".
- ^ Monger, James Christopher. "Black Sabbath | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
Flush with eventual [heavy metal] genre classics like 'The Wizard,' 'N.I.B.,' and the aforementioned title cut, Black Sabbath was initially dismissed by critics
- ^ Wilson, Scott A. (2015). Music at the Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream. McFarland. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-47662-006-0.
- ^ Strong, M. C. (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd. p. 65. ISBN 0-86241-385-0.