Geoff Nicholls is a musician and keyboardist, who is best known as the longtime sideman for the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Nicholls also played in the band Quartz before joining Black Sabbath. In the late 1960's early 1970's, Geoff played lead guitar for the Birmingham band Johnny Neal and the Starliners. Nicholls' first appearance on a Black Sabbath album was on 1980's Heaven And Hell.