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On the 55th anniversary of “Paranoid”, original Black Sabbath singer / lyricist the late Ozzy Osbourne has fond memories of those days when he and his mates from the working-class neighborhood Aston decided to ditch their trendy blues music, cut the band down from a 6-piece to four, and started doing what Ozzy characterizes in this classic rock interview as “spooky music”.
Original Black Sabbath singer and co-founder Ozzy Osbourne passed away just shy of this landmark moment in hard rock’s evolution, “Paranoid” 55th anniversary, but not before reconvening here In the Studio for his poignant recollections of just how it all began, next week beginning Monday September 8.
By September 1972 and “Vol. 4”, the world into which the Birmingham England band Black Sabbath quickly rose to popularity felt increasingly like a dangerous place…Original lead singer/ lyricist Ozzy Osborne is my guest In the Studio for “Vol. 4”.
The godfathers of hard rock Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Klaus Meine from Scorpions, David Coverdale from Deep Purple and Whitesnake, and Queensryche co-founders Geoff Tate and Chris Degarmo rip through some seminal hard rock including the late Ronnie James Dio fronting Black Sabbath all “In the Studio” for Heavy Metal History
“Metallica” (affectionately known as “The Black Album” in the same way The Beatles had been dubbed “The White Album”), Metallica’s lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and lead throat James Hetfield show how the band sits atop the family tree of hard rock/heavy metal evolution.
Ten years after cutting the template with Black Sabbath for all Heavy Metal rock to follow, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne had precious little to show for it: fired from Black Sabbath and left with no band, no record label, and no prospects. But when “Blizzard of Ozz” was released in Osbourne’s native UK, not one record company in the all-important North American territory would take a meeting to distribute it, regarding Ozzy Osbourne as washed up. Don’t miss the dearly departed Ozzy Osbourne telling the story of “Blizzard of Ozz” on its 45th anniversary the week of September 15.
Ten years prior to the release of “No More Tears” in September 1991, Ozzy Osbourne couldn’t get arrested outside England. Particularly in America, the former singer for heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath was perceived by US record label execs as damaged goods…Then for the whole of the Eighties, Ozzy was constantly in the press, but rarely was it for his music. Ozzy admits here In the Studio that “No More Tears” was the first album he ever recorded sober, and the results were spectacular.
Ozzy Osbourne In the Studio for the making of 1980’s “Blizzard of Ozz” on its 45th anniversary.
Ozzy Osbourne is dead, aged 76.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honored posthumously guitarist Randy Rhoads during 2021 annual induction ceremony ….My guest Ozzy Osbourne pays tribute In the Studio in this classic rock interview.