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The E
ssential
Epic/L
egacy
Disc 1
1. Crazy Train (4:5i)
2. Mr. Crowley (4:55)
3.1 Don’t Know
(Live with Randy Rhoads) (5:43)
4. Suicide Solution (4:is)
5. Goodbye To Romance (5:33)
6. Over The Mountain (4:3i)
7. Flying High Again (4=38)
8. Diary Of A Madman (6=i4)
9. Paranoid
(Live with Randy Rhoads) (3=12)
10. Bark At The Moon (4:is)
11. You’re No Different (5=49)
12. Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel (5:23)
13. Crazy Babies (4:i4)
14. Miracle Man (3:48)
15. Fire In The Sky (6=24)
16. Breakin’ All The Rules (5=12)
Disc 2
1. Mama, I’m Coming Home (4:ii)
2. Desire (5:45)
3. No More Tears (7:23)
4. Time After Time (4:20)
5. Road To Nowhere (5=09)
6. I Don’t Want To Change The
World (Live) (5:06)
7. Perry Mason (5=54)
8. I Just Want You (4=59)
9. Thunder Underground (6:29)
10. See You On The Other Side
11. Gets Me Through (5=05)
12. Dreamer (4 45)
13. No Easy Way Out (5:oe)
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“If I’d done everything they’d said I’d done I’d be
dead by now!” chortles Ozzy Osbourne, reflecting
on three decades of mayhem, madness and near-
Olympian feats of self-destruction. Ozzy is noth¬
ing if not a true original whose reputation more
than precedes him. Indeed, like his wild person¬
ality, it exceeds him.
Since leading Black Sabbath out of Birmingham,
England in the late ‘60s, he’s managed to
become the heavy metal archetype, the Madman
of Metal, and as the latest feather in his cap, the
hysterically dysfunctional dad overseeing The Osbournes. To say the least, Ozzy’s influence is,
in early 2003, ubiquitous. His broad swath cuts
across nearly every Rock crop that’s come to
fruition in his wake: speed metal, grunge,
NWOBHM, “nu metal”, you name it. Everyone
from Metallica to Nirvana to Marilyn Manson has
cited Ozzy’s influence as a part of their musical
DNA. His fans call him the “Godfather of Heavy
Metal” and not without good reason. Though
typically modest in his appraisal of the nick¬
name, make no mistake, sans Ozzy the decibel-
driven, louder-than-thou music as we now know
it would not be.
From Sabbath’s earliest days playing the
Midlands circuit in 1969 till that fateful day a
decade later when Ozzy was unceremoniously
dumped in Los Angeles by his bandmates,
Sabbath was simply a group of four talented
hoodlums from the back streets of Aston, a down¬
trodden, bombed-out (from German blitzes during
the Second World War) outskirt of Birmingham,
who just wanted to make music, travel the world,
live the high life, and maybe make some dough in
the process. They did it all and more, and thirty
years on their inimitable music remains “the
blueprint of heavy metal”. It was a great run,
those innocent Seventies daze, but by 79 Ozzy
Osbourne barely knew himself: he was at the end
of his tether, spent—physically, mentally, and
musically, and saddled with a case of the blues.
He was just coming-to from a wild, ten year rock
‘n roll party and waking up wasn’t pretty.
So, coming on 1980, a rudderless Ozzy found
himself considering his next move, but he was
very insecure and his nasty, acute addictions
didn’t allow a clear train of thought. In fact,
highest on his list of “what’s next” was, unbe¬
lievably, moving back to Birmingham to go on
the “dole”, slang for England’s welfare system.
But, during Ozzy’s legendary six-month, binge-
crazy stay at the Le Parc Hotel in West
Hollywood, a star-crossed knock on his door
changed everything. It was his manager’s
daughter, Sharon Arden, who had dropped in
unannounced to collect an unpaid debt owed to
her dad. At this point, Ozzy was a first-class
mess but deep down his vulnerable, lovable,
charming personality remained intact. She was
smitten; he was infatuated. It was a quick
courtship. That said, he needed a big, swift
kick-in-the-arse to get his career back on track.
So, under the condition that he would promise to
get his act together Sharon agreed to take him
on as manager.
In late 1979, during the first and only guitar
audition for the first Ozzy band, in walked Randy
Rhoads, a tiny, almost androgynous-looking
phenom the likes of which only grace the Rock
world once or twice a generation. Rhoads’s
inimitable melding of hard rock and classical
guitar styles instantly rejuvenated Ozzy, who had
found a kindred musical soul, and the Ozzman
rose to the occasion by recording two seminal
albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, in
1980 and ‘81, respectively. European and
American tours commenced but tragedy struck
March 19,1982: a freak plane accident took the
life of the 25-year old gun-slinging guitarist,
shattering Ozzy’s delicate handle on his nascent
solo career. He pondered hanging it all up, but
Sharon realized a complacent and despondent
Ozzy would only hasten his own demise. Ozzy
Osbourne was not finished.
He continued on with Jake E. Lee as axeman
extraordinaire for the next couple of albums,
released a live Tribute to Randy Rhoads (culled
from the only professionally-recorded shows fea¬
turing Ozzy & Randy), and then decided to fresh¬
en up his act with a new partner. When Ozzy met
19 year-old Zakk Wylde during a routine guitar
audition he knew he’d found his man: tall,
blonde, and chock-full of spitfire chops, Zakk
was the hard-driving player Ozzy was looking
for. The duo teamed up to record Ozzy’s heaviest
album to date, 1988’s No Rest For the Wicked, for
which a most memorable video was produced:
Ozzy donned a mask resembling then-scan¬
dalous televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, surround¬
ed by a throng of 75 piglets...in a barn! Those
crazy Eighties!
At the beginning of the Nineties Ozzy was at a
crossroads: he was father to three small chil¬
dren but was still battling demons he’d first met
back in the early 70s. And, musically, he wasn’t
being stimulated. Although all of Ozzy
Osbourne’s records, including those recorded
with Black Sabbath, were at least Platinum-cer¬
tified in the States (ie. one million sold) it had
been nearly a decade since Ozzy had an across-
the-board smash album. The beginning of 1991
marked a new decade and it helped usher in
some overdue changes to the Ozzman’s infamous
lifestyle. Ozzy gave up drink and drugs for good;
he undertook a vigorous exercise regimen that
left him looking like rock ‘n roll’s Charles Atlas;
and he used his newfound clarity of mind and
energy to foster his creative juices. Ozzy’s
earnest efforts to better himself paid off in
spades: No More Tears, released in September
1991, would end up being his biggest-selling
album to date, selling over 6 million copies
worldwide. It remains the only Ozzy album to
feature five singles, including the Top Ten hit
“Mama, I’m Coming Home”, Ozzy’s road ode to
Sharon and the kids. Starting with the “Theatre
of Madness” tour in late ‘91 and continuing non¬
stop for 14 months Ozzy touched down on every
imaginable part of the globe during his “No More
Tours Tour”. The kicker was the finale in Costa
Mesa, California when the original Black
Sabbath reunited tor a tour-song encore. The
writing was on the wall: it seemed certain that
Ozzy was about to take a long break, his first
extended vacation from the stresses and rigors of
rock ‘n roll. Indeed, he took almost all of 1993
and ‘94 off to spend with Sharon and young
Aimee, Kelly, and Jack on his English farm estate.
(Ozzy did manage to win his first Grammy award,
though, for Live & Loud’s “I Don’t Want To Change
The World”.)
After the long-labored Ozzmosis album was
released in 1995 Sharon made an attempt to get
Ozzy booked on a popular Stateside festival tour.
But, the booking agents literally laughed in her
face. Ozzy was “washed-up”, not a part of the
“new rock brigade”, they claimed. Foolhardy is
the man who crosses the venerable fair maiden
Osbourne! Sharon summarily organized an all-
hard rock and heavy metal concert package with
Ozzy as kingpin, replete with two stages—one
exclusively dedicated to nurturing “baby”
bands—and a metal-friendly concourse area
dubbed “The Village of the Damned”. Born in
October 1996, the Ozzfest was an instant suc¬
cess: the two initial trial shows sold-out and
fans were abuzz about their newfound “heavy
metal summer camp”. (That other festival, well,
it piddled-out, quietly, the next year.) Since that
inaugural Ozzfest virtually every band who has
meant something in the loud rock universe in the
subsequent years has been featured on one of its
bills: Tool, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit,
Queens of the Stone Age, Pantera, Slipknot,
Marilyn Manson, the list goes on. Ozzy and
Sharon built an empire the fans had come to love
and their subjects, the loyal Hessian masses,
arrive, without fail, in droves every year. Over
the last seven years over 3.5 million fans have
attended; no other touring festival comes close to
matching that impressive benchmark.
With that kind of legacy and financial success,
who’da thunk that Ozzy’s greatest—and cer¬
tainly most unexpected—success was yet to
come? The answer is “no one”! Just as his
first studio album in six years, 200 l’s Down To
Earth, was on the verge of release MTV
descended on the Osbournes’ Beverly Hills
manse for a two-week stint, taping everything
and anything for a planned one-time special on
the life inside the Osbourne fishbowl. After the
success of Ozzy’s Cribs episodes, which were
the water-cooler talk of the MTV offices, an
executive decision was made to go in a little
longer this time, to see what the cameras would
capture. Well, the rest is history: the highest-
rated basic cable show ever elevated the
Madman and his clan to “A list” Hollywood
(though they were not—and are still not—the
celebrity hob-nobbing kind) and all of its atten¬
dant perks. The zenith was spring 2002, dur¬
ing which a tidal wave of surreality hit the surf:
on April 12,2002 Ozzy received his beloved star
on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame;
in May, he dined with President Bush in
Washington D.C.; and most incredibly, he per¬
formed at Queen Elizabeth’s Jubilee the next
month alongside his idol Paul McCartney and
Rod Stewart, Brian May, and other “Sirs” of the
English mantle. Come again, now?!
Ozzy Osbourne, once the bat-biting, backward-
masking, brain-frying uber-rock ‘n roll rebel,
had come full circle. He was now viewed by
mainstream America as the cuddly, outra¬
geously funny, father figure of television’s
biggest hit since the tragedy of September 11.
Not in a million years would anyone, especially
Ozzy, think that a scenario such as that would
come to pass. But it has, and Ozzy Osbourne,
the Madman, the Prince of Darkness, the
Architect of Metal, continues to see himself first
as a singer and entertainer—he still rocks
your socks off every summer at Ozzfest, in what
is now his 33rd year as a professional musi¬
cian. His music—70 million records sold
worldwide—speaks for itself. He’s earned his
revered status, so indulge yourself with this set
of Ozzy’s “essential” tunes.
After all, everyone’s got a little bit of Ozzy in ‘em.
Liner notes by Eddie Williamson
Disc 1
1. Crazy Train Written by O. Osbourne, B. Daisley, R. Rhoads Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)/Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake,
Randy Rhoads
Taken from Blizzard Of Ozz
2. Mr. Crowley Written by O. Osbourne, B. Daisley, R. Rhoads Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)/Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake,
Randy Rhoads
Taken from Blizzard Of Ozz
3.1 Don’t Know
(Live with Randy Rhoads) Written by O. Osbourne, R. Daisley, R. Rhoads Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Producer: Max Norman
Taken from Tribute
4. Suicide Solution Written by O. Osbourne, B. Daisley, R. Rhoads TRO-Essex Music International, Inc. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake,
Randy Rhoads
Taken from Blizzard Of Ozz
5. Goodbye To Romance Written by O. Osbourne, B. Daisley, R. Rhoads TRO-Essex Music International, Inc. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake,
Randy Rhoads
Taken from Blizzard Of Ozz
6. Over The Mountain Written by O. Osbourne, R. Rhoads, R. Daisley, L. Kerslake Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)/Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)
Producers: Max Norman, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads
Taken from Diary Of A Madman
7. Flying High Again Written by O. Osbourne, R. Rhoads, R. Daisley, L. Kerslake Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Producers: Max Norman, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads
Taken from Diary Of A Madman
8. Diary Of A Madman Written by O. Osbourne, R. Rhoads, R. Daisley, L. Kerslake Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Producers: Max Norman, Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads
Taken from Diary Of A Madman
9. Paranoid (Live with Randy Rhoads) Written by A. Iommi, W. Ward, T. Butler, J. Osbourne TRO-Essex Music International, Inc. (ASCAP)
Producer: Max Norman
Taken from Tribute
10. Bark At The Moon Written by O. Osbourne EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Max Norman
Taken from Bark At The Moon
11. You’re No Different Written by O. Osbourne EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Max Norman
Taken from Bark At The Moon
12. Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Written by O. Osbourne EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Daisley, Max Norman
Taken from Bark At The Moon
13. Crazy Babies Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, R. Castillo, B. Daisley EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (BMI)
Producer: Keith Olsen
Taken from No Rest For The Wicked
14. Miracle Man Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, B. Daisley EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd. (ASCAP) and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd. (BMI) and Monowise Ltd. (BMI)
Producer: Keith Olsen
Taken from No Rest For The Wicked
15. Fire In The Sky Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, J. Sinclair, R. Castillo EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Roy Thomas Baker, Keith Olsen
Taken from No Rest For The Wicked
16. Breakin’ All The Rules Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, B. Daisley, J. Sinclair, R. Castillo EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Roy Thomas Baker, Keith Olsen
Taken from No Rest For The Wicked
Disc 2
1. Mama, I’m Coming Home Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, L. Kilmister EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd. and Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Duane Barron, John Purdell
Taken from No More Tears
2. Desire Written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo, L. Kilmister EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Duane Barron, John Purdell
Taken from No More Tears
3. No More Tears Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, R. Castillo, M. Inez, J. Purdell EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd./Purdell Music (ASCAP)
Producers: Duane Barron, John Purdell
Taken from No More Tears
4. Time After Time Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Duane Barron, John Purdell
Taken from No More Tears
5. Road To Nowhere Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, R. Castillo EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producers: Duane Barron, John Purdell
Taken from No More Tears
6.1 Don’t Want To Change The World (Live) Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, R. Castillo, L. Kilmister EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (BMI)
Producer: Ozzy Osbourne
Taken from Live & Loud
7. Perry Mason Written by O. Osbourne, Z. Wylde, J. Purdell EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd. and Monowise Ltd./Purdell Publishing (ASCAP)
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Taken from Ozzmosis
8.1 Just Want You Written by O. Osbourne, J. Vallance EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd.
(ASCAP)/Almo Music Corp. (ASCAP)/Testatyme Music (ASCAP)
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Taken from Ozzmosis
9. Thunder Underground Written by O. Osbourne, G. Butler, Z. Wylde EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) and EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd. and Monowise Ltd.
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Taken from Ozzmosis
10. See You On The Other Side Written by O. Osbourne, L. Kilmister, Z. Wylde EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/EMI Virgin Songs, Inc. (BMI) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Taken from Ozzmosis
11. Gets Me Through Written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tim Palmer EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/TP Songs (ASCAP)
Producer: Tim Palmer
Taken from Down To Earth
12. Dreamer Written by Ozzy Osbourne, Marti Frederiksen, Mick Jones EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) obo itself and Pearl White Music (BMI)/Somerset Songs Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)
Producer: Tim Palmer
Taken from Down To Earth
13. No Easy Way Out Written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tim Palmer EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo itself and Monowise Ltd. (ASCAP)/TP Songs (ASCAP)
Producer: Tim Palmer
Taken from Down To Earth
Compilation Produced by Sharon Osbourne,
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/ The Essential ^ N
Paranoid 'Live with Randy Rhoads) (3:12)
10. Bi rk At The Moon (4:i5)
11. )u re No Different (5:49)
13 ael: n’ Roll Rebel (5:23)
13.
Crazy Train (4=51)
Mr. Crowley (4:55)
I Don’t Know (Live with Randy Rhoads \ (1
Suicide Solution (4:it)
The Essential
1. Mama, I’m Coming Home (4-
2. Desire (5.45)
3. No More Tears (7:23
4. Time After Time (4:2 ,
5. Road To Nowhere (5:C9)
6. I Don’t Want To Change The W
(Live) (5:06) 7.
Perry Mason (5:54)
8. I Just Want You (4:56)
9. TJ. under Underground (6:29)
10. You On The Other Side (6:11)
11. Gets Me Through (5:05)
12. Dreamer (4:45)
13. '.♦Jo Easy Way Out (5:06)