Ozzy compared his two greatest axemen in a recent Q&A with, regarding the November 29 release of his career-spanning vinyl boxset See You On The Other Side. In Ozzy's solo career, two six-stringers stand out from the rest: Randy Rhoads, who authored most of the music on Ozzy's first two solo albums before his tragic death in 1982, and Zakk Wylde, who joined Ozzy's band in 1987 and has dutifully served as a sideman for the Prince of Darkness on and off for the past 30 years. I was like ‘oh let me try it on the 12-string and see what it sounds like.’ That’s how it evolved into the song, originally it was just me and Ozz noodling on the piano.Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne probably knows more about great electric guitar playing than anyone in history who's never played the instrument himself.įrom co-founding the greatest heavy metal band of all-time, Black Sabbath, in 1968 alongside riff gods Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler to employing a long line of iconic guitarists as a solo artist, Ozzy has repeatedly collaborated with the best to ever turn it up. “I had the music, and then when we got to the studio, I transposed it to the 12-string guitar. “I remember when we were working on the album, I originally wrote ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’ on a piano,” Zakk says. “We heard that the GIs were sending that song to their wives. “At that time, a lot of people were going to Iraq war,” OZZY notes. “ Mama, I’m Coming Home,” the album’s biggest hit which OZZY co-wrote with Kilmister, started with Zakk at a piano, has gone on to become not only a rock anthem, but a classic song among soldiers. It’s always a good time whenever we’re together, it’s always like it’s a laugh fest, and then making the records is beyond hilarious as well.”
My love for him and admiration for him has just gotten even stronger and bigger over the years. I’ll come up with something better.’ Whatever you’re hearing on the record is pretty much first thing he started singing that naturally came out of him, that he started hearing in his head. I mean, there’s very, very few times where he’s actually said, ‘No, let me come back to that. With OZZY, whenever we’re playing riffs, he would be like ‘keep playing that riff.’ Pretty much every time he just gets up there and starts singing what comes to him naturally, he knocks it out of the park all the time. You got to come up with some cool stuff.’ On NO MORE TEARS, I guess I was more relaxed.
I had definitely crawled into the fire and kept thinking. Zakk Wylde adds, “On the first record, ‘It was like I can’t believe I’m here. And Zakk’s playing on it is spectacular.” But there was also lots of goofing around and we had a good time making it. Every song was worked on for a long time and we spent extra time trying to get things right. Sometimes you’re surprised for the better, but other times you’re disappointed, but John and Duane did an extraordinary job on the album. It’s so nice when you get a producer who’s more like a part of the band than them saying, ’nah, you do it this way.’ Because we write them and when you write the songs, you have a mental picture of how you think you want it to sound. Before we went into the studio, we discussed what we were going to do–everything was planned. “We worked hard on the record with John Purdell and Duane Baron, who became extra two members of the band. “I have a lot of great memories of making the album,” OZZY says. The Grammy-winning track was one of the album’s four songs co-written with OZZY’s longtime friend and colleague Lemmy Kilmister the others include “Mama, I’m Coming Home,” “Desire,” and “Hellraiser.” The album has remained an OZZY classic, earning a spot (#22) on Loudwire’s “Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the ’90s” with Ultimate Classic Rock including No More Tears on their list “Top 100 ’90s Rock Albums.” In addition, the album’s “I Don’t Want to Change the World” earned OZZY his first Grammy for a live version of the track that was featured on his 1993 LIVE AND LOUD album. In its release, NO MORE TEARS yielded four top ten singles on the Billboard Rock Tracks chart, “Mama, I’m Coming Home” (#2), “Road To Nowhere” (#3), “Time After Time” (#6) and the title track (#10). A 2LP black vinyl version will be released as well. TORONTO, ON., J– More than 30 years after its release, OZZY OSBOURNE’s sixth solo album–the Top 10 (#7) and quadruple platinum NO MORE TEARS will be celebrated with an expanded digital audio album due out September 17 (Sony). OZZY OSBOURNE’S ‘NO MORE TEARS’ WITH 30TH ANNIVERSARY EXPANDED DIGITAL DELUXE EDITION OF THE ALBUM DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 17 OZZY OSBOURNE’SĭUE OUT SEPTEMBER 17 TWO SPECIAL VINYL EDITIONS WILL COMPLEMENTĭIGITAL RELEASE “It was one of my favorite albums to make.”
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