“One night, after finishing a show, we returned to the hotel and found the corridor leading to our rooms completely filled with people wearing black cloaks, sitting on the floor with candles in their hands, chanting, ‘Ahhhh,’” band member Tony Iommi recalled. Black Sabbath ended up taking matters into their own hands to get the Satanists to leave them alone. “We synchronized our watches, opened our doors at the same time, blew the candles out, and sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to them,” Iommi said. “Pissed ’em off.” Despite the interruptions, Black Sabbath members have said that they owe some of their popularity to the so-called Satanists. “The good thing about the satanic stuff was that it gave us endless free publicity,” Osbourne said. “People couldn’t get enough of it.”