{"id":135756,"date":"2025-11-16T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135756\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:58:11","slug":"sharon-osbourne-protests-release-of-black-sabbaths-early-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135756\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Osbourne Protests Release of Black Sabbath’s Early Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSharon Osbourne<\/a> has shared her disapproval of the impending release<\/a> of a batch of early Black Sabbath<\/a> demos recorded while the band was known as Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn June, just weeks before Black Sabbath\u2019s End of the Beginning concert and Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u2019s death, the band\u2019s first manager Jim Simpson revealed plans to officially release recordings that\u00a0Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward recorded at Zella Studios in Birmingham, England, in 1969, just months before the foursome changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Legendary Lost 1969 Tapes were originally due out in July but have not yet been released, apparently \u2014 as Sharon Osbourne revealed on social media Saturday \u2014 due to legal wrangling between Simpson\u2019s Big Bear Music and the band themselves, including who actually owns the demo recordings and whether they are out of copyright in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent episode of The Osbournes podcast, Sharon criticized the plan to release the Earth recordings as well as questioned Simpson\u2019s motives, with Simpson then issuing a lengthy statement responding to Sharon\u2019s claims (via Blabbermouth<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe back-and-forth continued this weekend as Sharon took to social media to once again warn Simpson about the Earth tapes, as well as share emails she sent to Simpson urging him not to release the recordings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs you know, the Band do not want these tapes released, not least as they haven\u2019t heard them despite you saying you would provide copies long ago,\u201d Sharon wrote to Simpson in July. \u201cYou know that, as a band, Black Sabbath don\u2019t take things lying down and you can be assured that if you go ahead with this against the Band\u2019s wishes we will take any action we can where their rights are infringed, both here and in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSharon previously accused Simpson of keeping the Earth recordings \u201cquiet for all these years because they\u2019re now out of copyright, which is 50 years.\u201d In addition to protesting the release of the Earth tapes themselves, Sharon took additional exception to The Legendary Lost 1969 Tapes being distributed by Big Bear Records and Trapeze Music. \u201cWe would never have allowed any Black Sabbath product to be released\u201d through those labels, Sharon wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe legal threats have ultimately pushed back the release of The Legendary Lost 1969 Tapes, as various online vendors have the album now arriving on varying dates ranging from December 2025 to February 2026, if at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharon Osbourne has shared her disapproval of the impending release of a batch of early Black Sabbath demos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5873,146,85,46,409,5521,22908],"class_list":{"0":"post-135756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-black-sabbath","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","14":"tag-sharon-osbourne"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}