Sharon Osbourne has urged Black Sabbath's first manager not to release an album of their first recordings.

The matriarch's late husband, Ozzy Osbourne, and bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward recorded a number of songs in Birmingham's Zella Studios under the name Earth back in 1969, and in June, Jim Simpson, their manager at the time, announced Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes compilation would be released the following month.

The release never happened and now Sharon has spoken out to condemn the project, disputing the legal ownership of the recordings and insisted the band didn't want them released.

She wrote in part on Instagram: "Simpson also states that he is “….in the process of relaunching Big Bear Records in a new distribution partnership with Trapeze Music Entertai

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