The first was the 1980 release of the unsanctioned Live at Last album, and the second was former lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne's 1982 release of a live album consisting entirely of Black Sabbath songs. The kids on the ocean does symbolize “Children of the Sea”, but they’re using a coffin as their boat – hence, “Children of the Grave”, too. I think we were probably riding quite high on the Heaven and Hell success, and so we ended up playing really, really well. I always liked the ‘Live at Hammersmith Odeon’ album better; I feel it has a more stronger sound but Joe I’m pretty sure your aware of the Live Evil video footage, do you know if any release was intended in ’82 or if any future release is coming out? Dio's account attributed the breakup to a misunderstanding arising as the result of Iommi's drug abuse.

The first UK CD release omitted "War Pigs" (or "Warpigs" as it was titled in the explanation for its cutting, printed on the rear of the tray-insert), so as to fit onto a single CD. The physical versions also come with an illustrated hardback book that include new liner notes and replicas of the concert book and poster from the Mob Rules tour. The Southern Cross is a constellation that can be seen only on the Southern Hemisphere and kinda tells you where the South is. The way he conducted himself, the way he talked, it might have given that impression to the outside world, but he usually didn't mean anything by it.Tension, however, had been building for some time between the band members, with rock journalist Steffan Chirazi observing in 2008 that the story behind the creation of Live Evil is one of "quiet yet savagely visceral turmoil and a band collapsing under their weight of silence, unspoken accusation, and an unforgiving schedule. It contains some of Tony Iommi’s finest moments and I was very impressed with Vinny’s drum solo after Warpigs. citation needed] In the same interview series, Butler described the Live Evil mixing sessions as "the Yanks against the Brits," adding, "I think Ronnie seemed to desperately want to do his own stuff and we sort of wanted to keep it going as it was. Ronnie certainly has the vocal chops, if not the same everyman charm, to handle the Osbourne classics, but his incessant banter between (and during! AllMusic states that " Live Evil does benefit from a crystal clear, in-your-face sound, and by showcasing even amounts of both Ozzy and Dio material, effectively documents Black Sabbath's renascent tours of the early '80s.

The extra space allowed for the inclusion of War Pigs from the vinyl version, which is not on the original Vertigo print.I always clean new albums after opening them and usually replace their factory sleeve with a MOFI one as to not transfer any factory contaminants back onto a newly cleaned LP. Geezer Butler has referred to this album a few times in interviews as “Live in the Studio Evil”, a reference to a lot of the overdubs on it. Ronnie and I would ride in one car, Geezer and Tony in another car, and everybody was breaking away from each other a little bit. We had to give the old man two albums, well, a live album counted as two," she is quoted as saying in Mick Wall's 2013 biography on the band.