Black Sabbath were the first and greatest heavy metal band. Their exciting brand of hard rock and their hell-raising behaviour are legendary. They have sold millions of albums world wide and have ardent fans across the globe. David Tangye and Graham Wright were in the Black Sabbath crew during the seventies, the band's heyday, and they have the stories to prove it. For the first time they uncover the details of teh early days of the group, including a certain gig in the Scottish borders where they were beaten up by the local farmers. As the Sabs rose to fame and notoriety, touring Europe, Australia and America, delighting fans and disgusting law-abing members of the public, incidents of bad behaviour stacked up alarmingly. Packed with new information, How Black Was Our Sabbath is a real-life Spinal Tap story; a warm poignant, funny to four mates from Birmingham who became the biggest heavy metal rock band on the planet.