What the hell is a “headless cross,” anyway?
It’s a town in the West Midlands (near Redditch… near Birmingham) nothing more sinister than that – sorry! I went there once (one Saturday afternoon when I had nothing else better to do). There’s nothing there! We did go to a public library and found out where the name comes from. It comes from a mispronunciation of Headley’s Cross – Headley being a Saxon land owner of that area in the distant past. Tony Martin wrote the lyrics to that song, he wrote it about a plague that wiped out the population of Alvechurch (near Redditch… near Birmingham) but poetic license decided that using Headless Cross instead sounded more Sabbath. Pete.
