Black Sabbath – “Paranoid” / “Snowblind” single cover

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1. Florian Hardwig says:

   Jul 27th, 2025 10:08 am

   Thanks for your contribution, Sarah!

   It’s interesting to see this reinterpretation of Macmillan’s photos for the Paranoid album cover. In a 2020 interview for Rolling Stone, he recounts how he had his assistant and model Roger Brown wear a pig mask (because the album initially was to be named War Pigs), but that none of the shots of him in a mask survived.

   “We shot it at night, and we did quite a lot of experimental stuff,” Macmillan says. “We used ultraviolet light and an ultraviolet flash, so everything was fluorescing, basically. Some of the pig-mask pictures were much stronger than that particular image [on the cover]. I don’t find that image very, very strong. I find it quite weak.”

   in his art, Dave Field brought back the mask – even though it’s not a pig’s mask.

   Letraset’s Knightsbridge did come with a few swash alternates, including for b (and d f h h l n). The form that the sleeve designer used is something else, though: it’s an upside-down g.