“Lady Evil” by Black Sabbath

"Lady Evil" comes off Heaven and Hell, Black Sabbath's ninth studio album and the first with Ronnie James Dio at the microphone, released in April 1980 after Dio replaced Ozzy Osbourne the year before. Dio wrote the words, and the music is credited to Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward together.

Martin Birch produced and engineered it, with Joe Foglia assisting. Iommi plays guitar, Butler bass and Ward drums, and Geoff Nicholls adds keyboards. The album grew out of long sessions in Los Angeles that had begun with Ozzy still in the band, a stretch Iommi remembered as maddening and endless; with Dio out front, Sabbath came out the other side sounding like a band with a second wind.

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