"A few cursory listens had me thinking “yeah, this is okay” before it went onto the shelves. Then covid hit, and suddenly the world is looking for ways to keep itself amused when locked away. One of the things I do is start ranking bands albums from worst to best (in my humble opinion of course), and so I choose Black Sabbath as my second band to do this (after AC/DC). That means pulling out all the albums, and giving them enough of a listen to determine where they should fall. And out comes “Headless Cross” ... and for probably the first time in my life, I actually give the album a good, hard listen. And then I do it again. And again. And before I know it... I find I really like this album! I mean, it is actually heavy in places, more so than you might expect. And the more I listened, the more the album grabbed me, and I found myself listening to the other Sabbath albums for the ranking list I was doing, and then come back and play this again. And believe me, I was more surprised than anyone".

On this episode we are going to talk about “Headless Cross” by Black Sabbath, the band’s 14th studio album released 35 years ago this week, on today’s ‘look through the people and on through the mist’ episode of Music from a Lifetime.