Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler on This Day in History

This day in history: Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler was born on this day in 1949. Before Black Sabbath was formed he was studying to become an accountant, and these skills helped him do the band's books later on. Butler was heavily influenced by the writings of occultist Aleister Crowley as a teenager, as it seems, oddly, a lot of young British men were at the time. Black Sabbath is considered by many to be the first Heavy Metal band. Their debut album is considered by many to be one of the best debut albums, though their second album, Paranoid is by far their best. The song "Paranoid" was written last minute as filler for the album. All of the original members of Black Sabbath are still alive, which is quite remarkable for bands of that era.