…and I find it amazing that the band Black Sabbath who has never had a Top 40 hit and why their music doesn’t fit the classic hit format here on the pickle has never had a number one album in the United States until their last album which was released in 2013 and called 13. The reason I bring this up is because their 2nd album called Paranoid topped the UK album charts on this day Oct. 10th in 1970 but only reaching number 12 in the United States. Meanwhile, Paranoid was the last Black Sabbath album to top the charts in the UK until 2013 when they released their last album called 13 which is a gap of nearly 43 years between chart toppers. That beat out the previous record held by Bob Dylan who first topped the UK charts with New Morning in 1970 and then again with Together Through life in 2009. The closest Black Sabbath had to a top 40 hit in the U.S. was with the song Paranoid which peaked at number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 but like I mentioned earlier Black Sabbath was never a band that catered to the Top 40 crowd and got more airplay from album rock radio who satisfied Sabbaths cult like following but still wasn’t big enough to give the band a number one album in the states until the album called 13 was released. And while their music doesn’t fit the classic hits format it’s not like you’ve never heard the song Paranoid or Iron man or even Crazy Train which gets a few spins at sporting events. A song from Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album in 1980 which he released after getting kicked out of Black Sabbath in 1979. In hind site it looks like Black Sabbath needed Ozzy more than Ozzy needed Black Sabbath after having greater success as a solo artist and now as a TV star. You know I could be wrong but I don’t think Ozzy’s ever had a Halloween special which I find odd since he consider’s himself the Prince of Darkness who bites the heads off bats when he’s not “howling at the Moon!”