The Essential Ozzy Osbourne - Archive · bills: Tool, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, of the Stone Age, Pantera, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, thethe list goes on. Ozzy and Sharon built

E2K

8681Z

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)

f^PIC^I Tf A

This package consists of previously released

© 2003 Sony Music Entertainment 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2001, Entertainment Inc./Manufactured by Sony Music/550 Madison Avenue, New 3211/“Epic” GE£>, “Legacy” and ■. Reg. Off. Marca Registrada./WARNING: All Unauthorized duplication is a

www. epicrecords. com

2 4

|lln ill 6 9699-86812

“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)


Randy Rhoads


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)


Randy Rhoads


5. Goodbye To Romance Written by O. Osbourne, B. Daisley, R. Rhoads TRO-Essex Music International, Inc. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)


Randy Rhoads


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)



8. Diary Of A Madman Written by O. Osbourne, R. Rhoads, R. Daisley, L. Kerslake Blizzard Music, Ltd. (ASCAP)/Kord Music Publishing (ASCAP)



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.



12. Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel Written by O. Osbourne EMI Virgin Music, Inc. (ASCAP) obo EMI Virgin Music Ltd./Monowise Ltd.



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


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


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


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.



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)



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.



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.



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)


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.


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.


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)



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)



Compilation Produced by Sharon Osbourne,

Michael Guarracino and Bruce Dickinson

Additional Mastering by Vic Anesini

at Sony Music Studios

Art Direction & Design: David Coleman

Photography: Cover/Nitin Vadukul,

Tray Card/Gene Kirkland,

Interior/Greg Maston (1), Jeff Porter (2),

Gene Kirkland (3&4), Guzman (5)

ctured to meet critical quality standards. If you believe a disc has a manufacturing delect, please call our Quality Management Department at 1-800-255-7514. New Jersey residents Music Entertainment Inc./© 1981,1983, 1987, 1988, 1991,1993,1995, 2001,2003 Sony Music Entertainment Inc./Manufactured by Epic, A Division of Sony Music/550 Madison

l/”Epic,” . "Legacy" and ■ - Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Marca Registrada./WARNING: All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws..

/ 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)

Documents

The Essential Ozzy Osbourne - Archive · bills: Tool, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, of the Stone Age, Pantera, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, thethe list goes on. Ozzy and Sharon built