Rumor had it that this song about an upbeat sorcerer was an ode to the band's drug dealer - when The Wizard walks by everyone is happy. Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi cleared things up in his book Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath, where he explained that Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler were wandering around stoned and saw some guy leaping around being silly outside of a club. He looked like some kind of elf to them. Thus the song "The Wizard" was born.
This is the second song on the first Black Sabbath album. The album took about eight hours to record and cost $1200 to make.
This was used as the B-side to the first Sabbath single, "Paranoid," which was released ahead of their second album.
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