black sabbath released a debut album
on 8 january 1978 black sabbath made their only live performance with walker on vocals playing an early version of the song juniors eyes on the bbc television programme look hear walker later recalled that while in birmingham he had bumped into osbourne in a pub and came to the conclusion that osbourne was not fully committed to leaving black sabbath
 though it received a negative critical response the album was a commercial success leading to a followup record paranoid later that year