That time I asked Rob Halford to pick his favourite Sabbath album and was kinda surprised it wasn’t Paranoid

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By Steve Newton

I interviewed Rob Halford for the fourth time in November of 2010, when he was touring with his band Halford, in support of the new album Made of Metal.

Halford was preparing to open for Ozzy Osbourne on some North American dates, so I asked him if he’d been a huge Black Sabbath fan back in the ’70s, and if he had a favourite Sabbath album.

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