"TV Crimes" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Single by Black Sabbath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
from the album Dehumanizer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
B-side | "Letters from Earth" & "Time Machine" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Released | July 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format | 7" / 12" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Length | 3:58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Label | I.R.S./Reprise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer(s) | Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Producer(s) | Reinhold Mack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"TV Crimes" is a song by British rock band Black Sabbath from their 1992 album Dehumanizer. The single was the band's last to chart in the UK. The lyrics have nothing to do with stealing television sets, but rather about the rash of televangelist scandals prevalent in the late 1980s.
The music video, directed by Nigel Dick, was shot in Los Angeles. It features the band performing on a television that has been stolen. According to Geezer Butler in an interview featured on Hangin' with Heaven and Hell, the video was shot prior to the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Butler has also commented that the video has nothing at all to do with the lyrics of the song and "makes no sense".
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