Geezer Butler Reveals the Bob Dylan Song Behind a Sabbath Classic

Let me ask you something. When you hear “War Pigs,” what do you think of first? Heavy guitars?

Dark lyrics? Or Ozzy Osbourne’s voice? Most people never stop to ask where

this song really came from. Today, we are going to talk about the true

story behind one of the most powerful anti-war songs in rock history: “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath.

Our story begins with June 2023, when Geezer Butler spoke to Spin magazine. In that interview,

he listed the top five albums he could not live without. One of them was Bob Dylan’s The

Times They Are A-Changin’. From that album, one song stood out the most to him. Geezer Butler said:

“If ever a song summed up an era, the title track of this album spoke for a whole new