Neon Knights
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| Single by Black Sabbath | |||||||||||||||||
| from the album Heaven and Hell | |||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Children of the Sea (live)" | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | July 1980 | ||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" | ||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | January 1980 at Studio Ferber, Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Heavy metal | ||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:49 | ||||||||||||||||
| Label | Vertigo/Warner Bros. | ||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward | ||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Martin Birch | ||||||||||||||||
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"Neon Knights" is a song by British rock band Black Sabbath from 1980's Heaven and Hell, their first album with American vocalist Ronnie James Dio.
"Neon Knights" was the last song written by the band for the Heaven and Hell album. It was quickly written and recorded at Studio Ferber in Paris during January 1980 simply to fill time on the album's first side. The lyrics were written by Dio. It is the only song on Heaven and Hell to definitely feature songwriting input from bassist Geezer Butler, the band's main lyricist during the Ozzy Osbourne era. Butler was absent for most of the songwriting process due personal issues as well as his own uncertainty as to whether he wanted to remain in the band. Dio occasionally performed the song during their live shows. The live version of "Children of the Sea" was recorded in Deeside Leisure Centre on May 20, 1980.The song reached #22 on the UK charts, but failed to chart in the US or anywhere else.
In the UK the first 25,000 copies had a picture-bag.
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