Geezer Butler’s Memoir Gets Release Date
After announcing it in 2021, Geezer Butler’s autobiography is getting close to being in the hands of fans. Publisher Harper Collins has revealed that the book, which will be titled Into The Void, has a release date of June 6th. The 288-page memoir will cover the Black Sabbath founder’s time in the band as its bassist and lyricist as well as his later-career projects.
“In ‘Into the Void,’ Butler tells his side of the story, from the band’s beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet in Birmingham through the struggles leading to the many well-documented lineup changes while touring around London’s gritty clubs (Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who makes notable appearances!), and the band’s important later years,” the book’s description states. “He writes honestly of his childhood in a working-class family of seven in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant, and how his disillusionment with organized religion and class systems would spawn the lyrics and artistic themes that would resonate so powerfully with fans around the world.”
Butler’s book will mark the third memoir from Black Sabbath’s original lineup following Ozzy Osbourne’s I Am Ozzy and Tony Iommi’s Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath.
Into the Void will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook formats.
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