(various) original release 1986 by Polygram


LABELS :
USA     : Warner Bros - compact disc / LP - 25337
UK       : Vertigo/Phonogram - LP - VER-H/C 29
Europe : Polygram/Phonogram/Vertigo - compact disc / LP / MC - 826704-2/1/4

Europe : Remastered; Castle/ Essential Records - compact disc - ESM CD335 (April, 1996)
UK       : Universal Music / Sanctuary - 2CD Deluxe Expanded Edition - 2752472 (2010)

Track 5 : also released on Black Sabbath; "Blackest Sabbath 1971-1987" (Best Of);
UK : Polygram/ Vertigo - compact disc / LP / MC - 838818-2/1/4



Band line-up CD 1: 
Tony Iommi (guitars)
Eric Singer (drums)
Glenn Hughes (vocals)
Dave Spitz (bass)
Geoff Nichols (keyboards)

guest musicians CD 1:
Gordon Copley (bass on "No Stranger to Love")



Band line-up CD 2:
Tony Iommi (guitar)
Eric Singer (drums)
Ray Gillen  (vocals) 
Dave Spitz (bass)
Geoff Nicholls (keyboards)



NOTES CD 1 :
Produced and engineered by Jeff Glixman.
Recorded at Cheshire Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA.

Eric Singer also toured with Black Sabbath for this album.

September 15, 2010 : Black Sabbath CD box reissues From: www.black-sabbath.com According to BLACK SABBATH News, the next two reissues in the Deluxe Edition series are the highly overlooked Seventh Star (1986) and Eternal Idol (1987) albums that featured Glenn Hughes (ex-DEEP PURPLE) and Tony Martin respectively on vocals. After just a handful of dates on the 1986 Seventh Star Tour, Hughes was let go, and Ray Gillen was brought on board. He finished the tour, and work began on the next album, and it was mostly completed. Gillen left to found BADLANDS (with now KISS drummer Eric Singer also from Sabbath), and this left Black Sabbath with a mostly completed album, and no singer. Tony Martin was brought in and re-recorded all the vocals in two weeks. The album came out with Tony Martin, and the only remaining bit of the Ray Gillen original vocals was some laughter in the track 'Nightmare'. The original Ray Gillen version of The Eternal Idol has been traded in bootleg circles for ages now. Sanctuary/Universal UK will be releasing The Eternal Idol Box Set on November 1st. The additional tracks include 'Some Kind Of Woman' and 'Black Moon' (demo) on Disc 1. Disc 2 will comprise the Ray Gillen Eternal Idol album! Complete tracklisting is as follows:   Disc 1: 1. The Shining 2. Ancient Warrior 3. Hard Life To Love 4. Glory Ride 5. Born To Lose 6. Nightmare 7. Scarlet Pimpernel 8. Lost Forever 9. Eternal Idol 10. Black Moon (demo) 11. Some Kind Of Woman Disc: 2 1. Glory Ride 2. Born To Lose 3. Lost Forever 4. Eternal Idol 5. The Shining 6. Hard Life To Love 7. Nightmare 8. Ancient Warrior Sanctuary/Universal UK will also release the Seventh Star Box Set on November 1st. The first disc of Seventh Star will include the album as well as the remixed version of 'No Stranger to Love', which appears in the music video of the same. Disc 2 is a live concert recorded on June 2, 1986 and has Ray Gillen on vocals. The complete tracklisting is as follows: Disc 1: 1. In For The Kill 2. No Stranger To Love 3. Turn To Stone 4. Sphinx (The Guardian) 5. Seventh Star 6. Danger Zone 7. Heart Like A Wheel 8. Angry Heart 9. In Memory 10. No Stranger To Love (alternate version) Disc: 2 1. Mob Rules 2. Danger Zone 3. War Pigs 4. Seventh Star 5. Die Young 6. Black Sabbath 7. N.I.B 8. Neon Knights 9. Paranoid

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