Never Say Die!

Never Say Die!
Two pilots stand in front of a fighter jet wearing forest green aviation jumpsuits. They each have odd-looking leather helmets, one coloured tomato red, the other mustard yellow. Their faces are completely covered: Their eyes by dark goggles and their noses and mouths with black leather that has tubes attached for a breathing apparatus.
Cover design by Hipgnosis
Studio album by
Released29 September 1978[1]
Recorded1978
StudioSounds Interchange (Toronto)
Genre
Length45:41
LabelVertigo
ProducerBlack Sabbath
Black Sabbath chronology
Technical Ecstasy
(1976)
Never Say Die!
(1978)
Heaven and Hell
(1980)
Singles from Never Say Die!
  1. "Never Say Die"
    Released: 19 May 1978[5]
  2. "Hard Road"
    Released: September 1978[6]

Never Say Die! is the eighth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released on 29 September 1978.[7] It was the last studio album with the band's original line-up and the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album 13. It was certified Gold in the U.S. on 7 November 1997[7] and as of November 2011 has sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era.[8] The album received mixed reviews, with critics calling it "unbalanced" and insisting its energy was scattered in too many directions.[9]

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  2. ^ "Black Sabbath - Never Say Die Review". Metal.de (in German).
  3. ^ "Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!".
  4. ^ "Ranking: Every Black Sabbath Album from Worst to Best". 9 March 2017.
  5. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 47.
  6. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. ISBN 9780862415419.
  7. ^ a b "American album certifications – Black Sabbath – Never Say Die". Recording Industry Association of America.
  8. ^ "Black Sabbath Reuniting For New Album, Tour - The Hollywood Reporter". M.hollywoodreporter.com. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  9. ^ Wagner, Jeff (2010). Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal. Bazillion Points Books. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9780979616334.