Editing Technical Ecstasy (section)

==Artwork==
The [[cover art]] was designed by [[Hipgnosis]]. Osbourne once described it as "two robots screwing on an escalator".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.black-sabbath.com/faq/faq.html#faq44 |title=The Artwork |work=Black Sabbath FAQ |publisher=black-sabbath.com |access-date=2 April 2007 |archive-date=9 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309162024/http://www.black-sabbath.com/faq/faq.html#faq44 |url-status=live }}</ref> Hipgnosis' [[Storm Thorgerson]], who had been assisted by [[graphic design]]er [[George Hardie (artist)|George Hardie]], discussed the cover with Zoom magazine in 1979:<ref>"All About Hipgnosis", ''Zoom, the International Magazine'', no. 6, New York, 1979</ref> "We're very fond of that cover. From the title of the piece, ''Technical Ecstasy'', I thought of something ecstatic rather than something technical, and I immediately thought of ecstasy in sexual terms: some sort of mechanical copulation, which would be tricky to do. I then thought of ecstasy as falling in love, perhaps during a brief encounter on an escalator – and, since it was 'technical', I thought of two robots&nbsp;... It's really quite simple – he's just done curves for the female and hard, angular, macho lines for the male. It's really quite sexist, actually – stereotyped. Anyway, it's love at first sight, but I felt robots wouldn't do it like humans would do it, so instead they're squirting lubricating fluid at one another." The UK release had a two-sided insert of lyrics and credits.