‘Heavy metal music helps plants’

This music video shows Black Sabbath playing Paranoid in Paris in 1970.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Friday 19 April 2013

Plants ‘love rocking out to a bit of metal’

Garden guru Chris Beardshaw recommended a new technique for bigger blooms today: blast your plants with heavy metal.

The broadcaster and gardening expert told Radio 4 listeners that a constant diet of Black Sabbath worked wonders on a greenhouse full of plants.

But he warned the audience of Gardeners’ Question Time that exposure to Cliff Richard proved a total disaster and killed every plant in a horticultural experiment.

This music video is called Cliff Richard, The Day I Met Marie.

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