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Born Again is the eleventh studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released in August 1983, it is the only album the group recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan, best known for his work with Deep Purple. It was also the last Black Sabbath album for nine years to feature original bassist Geezer Butler and the last to feature original drummer Bill Ward, though Ward did record a studio track with the band fifteen years later on their 1998 live album Reunion. The album has received mixed reviews from critics,[1] but was a commercial success upon its 1983 release, reaching No. 4 in the UK charts.  The album also hit the top 40 in the United States. In July 2021, guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi confirmed that the long lost original master tapes of the album had been finally located, and that he was considering remixing the album for a future re-release.

Following the departure of vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice in 1982, Sabbath's future was in doubt. The band switched management to Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father) and he suggested Ian Gillan as the new vocalist. "That band was put together on paper," guitarist Tony Iommi revealed in the 1992 documentary Black Sabbath: 1978–1992. "We'd never rehearsed."

The band had considered vocalists such as Robert Plant and David Coverdale before settling on Gillan.  They even received an audition tape from a then-unknown Michael Bolton.  Iommi told Hit Parader magazine in late 1983 that Gillan was the best candidate, saying "His shriek is legendary." Gillan was at first reluctant, but his manager convinced him to meet with Iommi and Butler at The Bear, a pub in Oxford. After a night of heavy drinking, Gillan officially committed to the project in February 1983.

The project was originally intended to be a new supergroup, and the members of the group had no intention of billing themselves as Black Sabbath.  At some point after recording had been completed, Arden insisted that they use the recognizable Sabbath name, and the members were overruled.  "We thought we were doing a kind of Gillan-Iommi-Butler-Ward album…" recalled bassist Geezer Butler. "That is the way we approached the album. When we had finished the album, we took it to the record company and they said, 'Well, here's the contract: it is going to go out as a Black Sabbath album."

Born Again featured the return of founding member Bill Ward on drums, who was newly sober after leaving the band in 1980 to deal with his alcoholism.  Ward began drinking again near the end of the sessions and returned to Los Angeles for treatment once the album was completed, and has remained sober ever since.  Ward has said that he enjoyed making the album, which remains his final studio album with the band.

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THIS VINYL RECORD IS IN MINT CONDITION.

THERE IS NO SIGHN OF HAIR LINES OR SCRATCHES. THE ORIGINAL COVER WAS LOST.

THE SOUND IS GREAT. LIKE NEW.

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This Record Vinyl is in the most perfect  Condition!

We will grade and ship how you would expect it.  We ship all of our albums inside proper lp media mailers with the actual album outside of cover to avoid split seams and edges.  We also use extra corner protection and internal cardboard "stiffeners" to ensure safe arrival and to lessen any unnecessary sliding around. 

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