It was released in 1970, as a single six months after their self titled debut Black Sabbath, and it was the first truly successful single written by the band themselves. A few months earlier, the band’s first single had actually been a cover, “Evil Woman Don’t Play Your Games With Me” by Crow. But “Paranoid” was something else. It reached No. 4 in the United Kingdom, became their big British success, and one of the songs forever identified with the band