On the Road, Season 3, Episode 3 - FULL EPISODE

Birmingham & Stourbridge

Jesse then takes a tour of Aston to see the key landmarks of the birth of his favourite band of all time, from where they went to school and first rehearsed, to Ozzy's childhood home.
The final stop of the tour is The Barton Arms where Ozzy used to drink and in there, Jesse meets two key Sabbath experts to help piece together the puzzle of how they came together and change the course of musical history.
Graham Wright roadied with the band throughout their heyday and went on to write a book about them called 'How Black Was Our Sabbath.' He gives an insight into the personalities of the band members, the practical jokes they played on each other and how nuts they all went when they went to the States for the first time.
Dr Andy Cope is genuinely a doctor of rock! He is an advanced musicologist and wrote the respected academic work 'Black Sabbath and the rise of Heavy Metal Music.' He takes Jesse through the specific musical innovations that made Sabbath different from what had gone before them and led to journalists deciding there needed to be a new name for this heavy and often terrifying sound.

Soon after Sabbath and Judas Priest set the template for what would become known as heavy metal, new bands in the area around Birmingham became inspired to give it a go. The small, unremarkable town of Stourbridge contributed a few great bands, none more so than Diamond Head who became known more recently as one of the biggest influences on Metallica.
Jesse went to co-founder Brian Tatler's house to see how the next generation of metal bands took inspiration from the likes of Sabbath and soon found themselves touring the world, riding the wave of this new sound that kids all over the globe couldn't get enough of.

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