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PROMOTIONAL ONLY means issued by record company in very limited quantity and sent to selected Industry professionals ONLY for promotional consideration/airplay. Never for sale and highly collectable releases After years of playing a dispiriting game of musical chairs with various lead singers during the early '80s, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi finally stumbled upon a dependable frontman when he admitted relative unknown Tony Martin into the fold, thereby initiating the original heavy metal band's long awaited return to respectability — if not chart-topping success. Martin joined the oft-interrupted sessions for what would become 1987's The Eternal Idol album already in progress, stepping in for an unreliable Ray Gillen when the latter moved on to Jake E. Lee's Badlands, and helping Iommi rescue an astonishingly solid long-player from the jaws of complete and utter chaos. As it turned out, Martin's powerful, muscular voice together with some of Iommi's heaviest, most undeniable riffs of the decade and the ever-reliable Geoff Nicholls made The Eternal Idol one of the bands strongest albums in a very long time. And above all else, The Eternal Idol contains a bona fide heavy metal classic for the ages in its monumental opener, The Shining, which Iommi had been kicking around in demo form since 1984, and which, in its final glorious form, is rightfully considered one of Black Sabbath's greatest songs bar none, regardless of singer, era, or album sales. This very are promotional 12 was released in the States to various record stations to help push the sales of one of the bands most underrated albums, The Eternal Idol. Us promo with promo label where both sides of the disc includes the album version of the song Track listing: 1. The Shining