Black Sabbath - Wicked World
Fairies Wear Boots is about Skinheads. At the time in England, Skinheads were not racists, but punks and anarchists. They usually wore boots, which is how Sabbath got the title. Regarding the rest of the words, guitarist Tony Iommi said, "We smoked a lot of dope, so that might be why some of the lyrics are a bit unusual."
The lyrics were inspired by an incident after a Sabbath concert in 1970. The band was attacked by a bunch of Skinheads after the show, injuring Tony Iommi and forcing them to cancel their next performance.
"We got into a scrap in Western-Super-Mare, these skinheads came to get us - and back then to call someone a 'fairy' was not a very nice thing," bassist Geezer Butler recalled to Uncut magazine. "So, Ozzy came up with 'fairies wear boots' because of those skinheads." From: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/black-sabbath/fairies-wear-boots
Hand Of Doom is about American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War, often injured or traumatized. The song reflects the disoriented feeling that afflicted many of these veterans, who often used drugs to cope. That's reflected in lines like, "drop the acid pill" and "holes are in your skin, caused by deadly pin."
Black Sabbath is from the UK and hadn't yet come to America when they wrote this song. Geezer Butler, the band's bass player and lyricist, was inspired by a concert that band played at an American army base in Germany.
"It was a sort of halfway house when soldiers were coming back from Vietnam so they could face family life and ordinary life when they came back to America," he explained to Songfacts. "They'd stop in Germany to decompress. They'd tell me these horrendous stories about being stuck in the mud in Vietnam and how many of them were on heroin. Of course, they didn't tell you that on the news. I just thought I'd write about that." The UK didn't fight in the Vietnam war, so there weren't a lot of songs by British groups that tackled the subject. From: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/black-sabbath/hand-of-doom
Dirty Women is about prostitutes that Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler saw in Florida.
Technical Ecstacy was taped in Criteria Studios in Florida. The Eagles were in the next room recording Hotel California, and at times had to stop recording because Black Sabbath was so loud.
During the Technical Ecstacy tour, a strange character called "Tony's Twin" started showing up. The stranger dressed like Tony, grew a moustache, played guitar, made his own prosthetic thimbles like Iommi. The man even marketed these prosthetics; he swore they somehow aided guitarists. From: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/black-sabbath/dirty-woman
