A legal battle concerning Black Sabbath ’s early demos has been resolved, with all four members regaining ownership of the songs they recorded as Earth in 1969. Last summer, it was announced that a compilation of demos recorded by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward in 1969, when they still went by the name Earth, was to be released under the title ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ . The tracks were recorded in Zella Studios in Birmingham, with a new release said to be overseen by Jim Simpson, the band’s manager at the time, with an initial release date of July last year. That release did not materialise, and Sharon Osbourne spoke out against the project at the time , issuing a lengthy social media post in which she outlined the Black Sabbath legal position, which disputes the legal ownership of the recordings.…