''Cross Purposes Live'' is a boxed set released by the English
heavy metal band
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock music, rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward (musician), Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. They are often cited as pioneers of heavy met ...
in March 1995. The set comprised a live album on
CD and a
VHS tape of a concert recorded at the
Hammersmith Apollo
The Hammersmith Apollo, currently called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons, and formerly known as the Hammersmith Odeon, is a live entertainment performance venue, originally built as a cinema called the Gaumont Palace. Located in Ham ...
in London on Wednesday 13 April 1994, recorded on the band's tour for their
Cross Purposes
''Cross Purposes'' is the seventeenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released through I.R.S. Records on 26 January 1994. The album marked the return of Tony Martin as the band's lead vocalist, after the second departure of R ...
album. The tour was notable for being the first time
The Wizard
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* Wizard (fantasy), a fictional practitioner of magic
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had been played since early 1971, when
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which period he adop ...
was still lead vocalist. It is Black Sabbath's only live album with singer
Tony Martin. The CD was housed within an oversized videotape case but had its own inserts and jewel case.
Both the original CD and VHS tape are out of print, but an hour long unlicensed
DVD
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was released with nine of the sixteen original video tracks. This release includes the promo videoclip of "Feels Good to Me", from 1990's ''
Tyr''.
Track listings
Personnel
*
Tony Martin – vocals
*
Tony Iommi
Anthony Frank Iommi () (born 19 February 1948) is a British musician. He co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader and primary composer and sole continuous member for nearly five decades. I ...
– guitars
*
Geezer Butler
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is a English musician and songwriter. He is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell ...
– bass
*
Geoff Nicholls
Geoffrey James Nicholls (29 February 1944 – 28 January 2017) was a British guitarist and keyboardist, and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath until 2004. Nicholls also played in the NWOBHM band Quartz before joining Black Sa ...
– keyboards
*
Bobby Rondinelli
Robert Rondinelli (born July 27, 1955) is a rock drummer best known for his work with the hard rock/ heavy metal bands Blue Öyster Cult, Rainbow, Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, The Lizards, The Handful, and Rondinelli. In July 2013, Rondinelli wa ...
– drums
See also
References
Black Sabbath live albums
1995 live albums
Live video albums
1995 video albums
Black Sabbath video albums
I.R.S. Records live albums
Albums recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo
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