“Fairies Wear Boots” ( Russ. Fairies wear shoes ) is a song by British heavy metal band Black Sabbath , released on their 1970 album Paranoid . Released as " Party B " on the After Forever single .
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| Black Sabbath single from the album Paranoid | ||||
| Side "A" | After forever | |||
| Released | January 1, 1971 | |||
| Genre | heavy metal | |||
| Duration | 6:14 | |||
| Producer | Black Sabbath, Roger Bein | |||
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| Song authors | Tony Iommi Ozzie osbourne Geezer butler Bill ward | |||
| Label |  Warner bros | |||
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In the notes to the Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath compilation (1970–1978) , Tony Iommi stated that the song’s name appeared when “ Gezer and Ozzie smoked cannabis outside and saw fairies in the park running around in their shoes. As far as I know, [the name] does not come from a skinhead attack ” [1] . After that, they wrote the text to "Fairies Wear Boots". In the classic Albums: Black Sabbath's Paranoid documentary, Geizer Butler states that the music for the song was actually inspired by a skirmish with skinheads, which the band members humiliatingly called “fairies” for the composition [2] .
An early version of Fairies Wear Boots, recorded on a John Peele radio show on April 26, 1970, was released as a bonus on Ozzy Osbourne's album The Ozzman Cometh . The song also entered the first compilation of the band We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll .
Notes
- ↑ Iommi, Tony . Notes on the Black Box: The Original Black Sabbath (1970–1978) . USA: Warner Bros. R2 73923, 2004.
- ↑ Documentary film “Classic Albums: Black Sabbath's Paranoid”