The second in a series of eight books that explores every lyric from the band’s 1970s canon, Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics Vol 2 provides an in-depth examination of Black Sabbath’s best-selling sophomore album, Paranoid, what Rolling Stone magazine calls the #1 Greatest Metal Album of All Time. Included are a complete set of lyrics, a discussion of the mysterious extra titles and early versions, and 200 powerful and haunting images from visionary contemporaries to arcane masters of old. For decades, Black Sabbath’s lyrics have been misheard, misunderstood and misinterpreted. Here, at last, is the definitive analysis of the band’s soul-searing message and themes, their dark warnings, strident protest songs, and apocalyptic visions of the future! Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics goes beneath the surface where few have gone before to uncover the truth behind the greatest musical force to ever storm the earth!

Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics Vol 2: Songs of Protest & Apocalypse

Arts & Photography

Bongiorno, Joe

Music

Royal Publisher of Oz, The

A Lost Baum Fantasy restored! When sea-raiders invade the peaceful island of Pingaree to carry off and enslave its inhabitants, only young Prince Inga, jolly King Rinkitink, and his grumpy goat Bilbil escape. Aided by three Magic Pearls, this unlikely trio of heroes sets out to rescue Inga's people from captivity, a quest that takes them on adventures across the Nonestic Ocean and into the underground world of the Nomes. The fat King, the young Prince and the sour goat must use their every resource to rescue Inga's parents. Originally written in 1905 as a non-Oz adventure, it was eventually published in 1916 as Rinkitink in Oz, with an Oz ending tacked on for sales purposes. Thanks to a contest sponsored by the International Wizard of Oz Club, Rinkitink now has a new ending written by Andrew J. Heller that is true to Baum's original concept. In King Rinkitink, the characters we have come to know in the story save the day with their wits and courage, instead of interfering sots from Oz (a possible book title, there), such as the insufferable Dorothy, with her bogus "I'm just country girl" persona that fools no-one and the know-it-all Wizard, being dragged in by their ears to defeat the Nome King in a monstrous anti-climax. With the publication of King Rinkitink, the true story, long suppressed by nefarious agents of a certain magical realm with a two letter name (hint: the second letter is a "z"), can at last be told.

King Rinkitink

Literature & Fiction

Heller, Andrew J.

Baum., L. Frank

Action & Adventure

The Yookoohoo Granda Natch is throwing a party that Button-Bright and Ojo won't soon forget! All of Oz's oddest Yookoohoos are coming... but who is the mysterious stranger and what is the bizarre gift he brings? Soon the boys are off on a perilous journey through the Gillikin Country, where along the road they'll discover hidden truths about the secretive Red Reera, giant spiders, and a mechanical monstrosity with a will of its own! But in a little house behind a picket fence waits a surprise that even Grandma Natch can't imagine!

Yookoohoos of Oz

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dana, Paul

Fantasy

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