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hanks for a great article on the making of Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” in your October issue. I was especially interested in Tony Iommi's recollection of the encounter with a gang of skinheads in “some seaside resort or other”. It was at the Winter Gardens in Weston-super-Mare. I was there that night. I remember a steward stopping a group of us as we were heading for the door to leave saying, “Stay in here for a while, lads, there’s trouble outside.” With that, the door opened and a very shocked-looking Tony Iommi came in already nursing what was going to be a real shiner. This was a regular occurrence at the Winter Gardens back then. Sometimes there were great bands on Saturday nights, but we always had to run the gauntlet of the skinheads gathered outside afterwards looking to give