{"id":1682,"date":"2012-05-21T22:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/black-sabbath-and-bravado-masters-of-reality-meet-masters-of-merchandise\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T22:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T22:27:01","slug":"black-sabbath-and-bravado-masters-of-reality-meet-masters-of-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/black-sabbath-and-bravado-masters-of-reality-meet-masters-of-merchandise\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath And Bravado: Masters Of Reality Meet Masters Of Merchandise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.allposters.com\/6\/LRG\/17\/1761\/8GG5D00Z.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"149\" height=\"158\" \/><br \/>One of the most iconic rock bands of all time, Black Sabbath,  has signed with world&#8217;s leading music merchandising company, Bravado, a division  of Universal Music Group. The announcement was made today by Tom Bennett, CEO,  Bravado.<\/p>\n<p>Black Sabbath, consisting of the legendary Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer  Butler and Tony Iommi, is one of the most influential bands of all time. Their  albums, including the quadruple platinum Paranoid, released in 1970, helped  define the genre of hard rock. Frequently cited as one of the greatest hard rock  and metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath has sold 70 million albums worldwide.  They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Bravado  will commemorate the launch of the Black Sabbath collection with contests held  in the USA, UK and Germany for fans and budding t-shirt designers to create  their own Black Sabbath inspired merchandise. In the USA, Hot Topic will sponsor  a &#8220;Design your own Black Sabbath T-shirt&#8221; contest and in the UK, HMV will  sponsor the same, with one lucky winner having his\/her creation sold exclusively  at that store. The winning designer will also receive a lithograph signed by the  members of Black Sabbath. In Germany, the leading mail order company EMP will  sponsor the contest, with the winning design sold exclusively in their catalog  and online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bravado is dedicated to working with the most talented and  most popular artists of our time,&#8221; stated Mr. Bennett. &#8220;To many, Black Sabbath  transcend their music. They not only created a genre, but they then elevated it  to have a place in pop culture. I can&#8217;t wait to see what kind of products they  will create with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June 2012 Black Sabbath will co-headline the  Download Music Festival, a three day rock music festival held annually at  Donnington Park, England, and then perform in August at the Lollapalooza  Festival in the Chicago, Illinois, area.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Bravado<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most iconic rock bands of all time, Black Sabbath, has signed with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}