Cross Purposes Live is a boxed set released by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath in March 1995. The set comprised a live album on CD and a VHS tape of a concert recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on Wednesday 13 April 1994, recorded on the band's tour for their Cross Purposes album. The tour was notable for being the first time The Wizard had been played since early 1971, when Ozzy Osbourne was still lead vocalist.[2] 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.[3]
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| Released | 13 March 1995[1] | |||
| Recorded | 13 April 1994 | |||
| Venue | Hammersmith Apollo, London | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 70:09 | |||
| Label | I.R.S. | |||
| Producer | Black Sabbath | |||
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| Released | 13 March 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 13 April 1994 | |||
| Venue | Hammersmith Apollo, London | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal | |||
| Length | 71 min (CD) 87 min. (VHS) | |||
| Label | PMI | |||
| Director | Duncan Smith | |||
| Producer | Will Ashurst, Martin R. Smith | |||
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Both the original CD and VHS tape are out of print, but an hour long unlicensed DVD 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
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Release Medium; Original Album | Length |
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| 1. | "Time Machine" | Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler | CD, VHS, DVD; Dehumanizer | 5:08 |
| 2. | "Children of the Grave" | Ozzy Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Bill Ward | CD, VHS, DVD; Master of Reality | 5:25 |
| 3. | "I Witness" | Tony Martin, Iommi, Butler | CD, VHS, DVD; Cross Purposes | 5:02 |
| 4. | "The Mob Rules" | Dio, Iommi, Butler | VHS, DVD; Mob Rules | 3:24 |
| 5. | "Into the Void" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS, DVD; Master of Reality | 6:39 |
| 6. | "Anno Mundi" | Martin, Iommi, Cozy Powell, Neil Murray, Geoff Nicholls | VHS, DVD; Tyr | 6:12 |
| 7. | "Black Sabbath" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS; Black Sabbath | 8:12 |
| 8. | "Neon Knights" | Dio, Iommi, Butler, Ward | VHS; Heaven and Hell | 5:00 |
| 9. | "Psychophobia" | Martin, Iommi, Butler | CD, VHS; Cross Purposes | 3:03 |
| 10. | "The Wizard" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS; Black Sabbath | 4:42 |
| 11. | "Cross of Thorns" | Martin, Iommi, Butler | CD, VHS; Cross Purposes | 4:43 |
| 12. | "Symptom of the Universe" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS, DVD; Sabotage | 5:59 |
| 13. | "Drum Solo" | Bobby Rondinelli | CD, VHS, DVD; N/A | 1:32 |
| 14. | "Headless Cross" | Martin, Iommi, Powell | CD, VHS, DVD; Headless Cross | 5:33 |
| 15. | "Paranoid/Heaven and Hell" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward/Dio, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS, DVD; Paranoid/Heaven and Hell | 5:13 |
| 16. | "Iron Man" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS; Paranoid | 3:27 |
| 17. | "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" | Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward | CD, VHS; Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | 6:11 |
Personnel
edit- Tony Martin – vocals[4]
- Tony Iommi – guitars
- Geezer Butler – bass
- Geoff Nicholls – keyboards
- Bobby Rondinelli – drums
References
edit- ^ "Cross Purposes Live – Black Sabbath Online". www.black-sabbath.com. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Black Sabbath Tour Statistics | setlist.fm". setlist.fm.
- ^ "Cross Purposes Live". Amazon.
- ^ Cross Purposes Live (liner notes). Black Sabbath. The Store For Music. 1995. SFMDVD030.
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