Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz - LP vg+ ~ vg+/ex Black Sabbath tested analog

Sold Date: July 13, 2021
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Competitive pricing is my goal to get rid of the hundred's of Lp's.  I try my best to grade lp's, and on occasion I will play test if time allows... I am trying to clean records that raises my ire of suspicion, but am finding my self these days cleaning everything. My only method of cleaning is a soft brush and cloth and some Audio Advisor product. I do not have a vacuum. I listen with my turntable & needle when I play grade an LP. If a stubborn noise erupts I will then look under a light and microscope. It is quite time consuming. So I may miss a thing or two sometimes on my listings,  but I will always be here to help resolve the issue. All I ask is my buyers realize these points and be rest assured I offer a refund policy but I would prefer you email me so we can work something out first, I may have a back up copy... I have been collecting records since my 20's... Its has been a passion and a part-time hobby, I hope you love and enjoy music as much as I do, and selling is another way to get to know other people with a like minded interest as I. I offer a refund policy, so please give me the opportunity to make good if there is a problem with a transaction. I reserve the right to cancel a transaction after the sale If I find a missed defect on your behalf.
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Jacket vg+ ~ ex record vg+ ~ ex Bought brand new in the day....taped and played on cassette in the car alot. Record ex shape, very fine lite hairlinemarkings, more like ghost scuff markings,  but otherwise a very fine excellent new looking copy. Tested, but not cleaned...has a couple of lite pops, more than likely debris, since I bought this new.

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On leaving Sabbath, Osbourne recalled, "I'd got £96,000 for my share of the name, so I'd just locked myself away and spent three months doing  and booze. My thinking was, 'This is my last party, because after this I'm going back to Birmingham and ." However,  signed him to  with the aim of recording new material. Arden dispatched his daughter Sharon to Los Angeles to "look after Ozzy's needs, whatever they were", to protect his investment. Initially, Arden hoped Osbourne would return to Sabbath (who he was personally  at that time), and later attempted to convince the singer to name his new band "Son of Sabbath", which Osbourne hated. Sharon attempted to convince Osbourne to form a  with guitarist . "When I lived in Los Angeles," Moore recalled, "[Moore's band] G-Force helped him to audition musicians. If drummers were trying out, I played guitar, and if a bassist came along,  would help out. We felt sorry for him, basically. He was always hovering around trying to get me to join, and I wasn't having any of it."

In late 1979, under the management of the Ardens, Osbourne formed the Blizzard of Ozz, featuring drummer  (of ), bassist-lyricist  (of  and later ), keyboardist  (of Rainbow, and later ), and guitarist  (of ). The record company would eventually title the group's debut album , credited simply to Osbourne, thus commencing his solo career. Cowritten with Daisley and Rhoads, it brought Osbourne considerable success on his first solo effort. Though it is generally accepted that Osbourne and Rhoads started the band, Daisley later claimed that he and Osbourne formed the band in England before Rhoads officially joined.

Blizzard of Ozz is one of the few albums amongst the 100 best-sellers of the 1980s to have achieved multi-platinum status without the benefit of a top-40 single. As of August 1997, it had achieved quadruple platinum status, according to . "I envied Ozzy's career…" remarked former Sabbath drummer . "He seemed to be coming around from whatever it was that he'd gone through and he seemed to be on his way again; making records and stuff… I envied it because I wanted that… I was bitter. And I had a thoroughly miserable time."

Osbourne performing in  in 1981

Osbourne's second album, , featured more songs co-written with Lee Kerslake. For his work on this album and Blizzard of Ozz, Rhoads  was ranked the 85th-greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003. This album is known for the singles "" and "" and, as Osbourne explains in his autobiography, is his personal favourite.  and  soon replaced Kerslake and Daisley. Aldridge had been Osbourne's original choice for drummer, but a commitment to  had made him unavailable. Sarzo had played in Quiet Riot with Rhoads, who recommended him for the position.

On 19 March 1982, the band were in Florida for the Diary of a Madman tour, and a week away from playing  in New York City. A light aircraft piloted by Andrew Aycock (the band's tour bus driver) – carrying Rhoads and Rachel Youngblood, the band's costume and make-up designer – crashed while performing low passes over the band's tour bus. The left wing of the aircraft clipped the bus, causing the plane to graze a tree and crash into the garage of a nearby mansion, killing Rhoads, Aycock, and Youngblood. The crash was ruled the result of "poor judgement by the pilot in buzzing the bus and misjudging clearance of obstacles". Experiencing firsthand the horrific death of his close friend and bandmate, Osbourne fell into a deep depression. The tour was cancelled for two weeks while Osbourne, Sharon, and Aldridge returned to Los Angeles to take stock while Sarzo remained in Florida with family.

Gary Moore was the first to be approached to replace Rhoads, but refused. With a two-week deadline to find a new guitarist and resume the tour, , brother of the band's bassist Rudy Sarzo, was chosen to replace Rhoads. However, former  guitarist  had flown to California from England with the promise from Jet Records that he had the job. Once Sharon realised that Jet Records had already paid Tormé an advance, he was reluctantly hired instead of Sarzo. The tour resumed on 1 April 1982, but Tormé's blues-based style was unpopular with fans. After a handful of shows he informed Sharon that he would be returning to England to continue work on a solo album he had begun before coming to America. At an audition in a hotel room, Osbourne selected 's  to finish the tour. The tour culminated in the release of the 1982 live album , recorded at the Ritz in New York City. A  was also later released. Despite the difficulties, Osbourne moved on after Rhoads' death. , known in the United Kingdom as Talk of the Devil, was originally planned to consist of live recordings from 1981, primarily from Osbourne's solo work. Under contract to produce a live album, it ended up consisting entirely of Sabbath covers recorded with Gillis, Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge.

In 1982 Osbourne appeared as lead vocalist on the  pop dance track "". Remixed and rereleased in the early 1990s for a Was (Not Was) hits album in Europe, it reached number four on the . In 1983, , formerly of  and , joined Osbourne to record . The album, cowritten with Daisley, featured Aldridge and former  keyboard player Don Airey. The album contains the fan favourite "". The music video for "Bark at the Moon" was partially filmed at the Holloway Sanitorium outside London, England. Within weeks the album became certified gold. It has sold three million copies in the US. 1986's  followed (with bassist  and drummer ), and touring behind both albums with former Uriah Heep keyboardist John Sinclair joining prior to the Ultimate Sin tour. At the time of its release, The Ultimate Sin was Osbourne's highest-charting studio album. The  awarded the album Platinum status on 14 May 1986, soon after its release; it was awarded Double Platinum status on 26 October 1994.

Jake E. Lee and Osbourne parted ways in 1987. Osbourne continued to struggle with chemical dependency. That year he commemorated the fifth anniversary of Rhoads' death with , a collection of live recordings from 1981. In 1988 Osbourne appeared in  and told the director  that "sobriety fucking sucks". Meanwhile, Osbourne found , who was the most enduring replacement for Rhoads to date. Together they recorded  with Castillo on drums, Sinclair on keyboards, and Daisley co-writing lyrics and playing bass. The subsequent tour saw Osbourne reunited with erstwhile Black Sabbath bandmate  on bass. A live EP (entitled ) featuring Geezer was released two years later. In 1988, Osbourne performed on the rock ballad "", a duet with , reaching No. 8 on the . In 1989 Osbourne performed at the .

Osbourne's  LP (bottom) on display at the Home of Metal Exhibition held at the  in his home city Birmingham

Successful through the 1980s, Osbourne sustained commercial success into the 1990s, starting with 1991's , featuring "". The album enjoyed much radio and  exposure. It also initiated a practice of bringing in outside composers to help pen Osbourne's solo material instead of relying on his recording ensemble. The album was mixed by veteran rock producer . Osbourne was awarded a  for the track "I Don't Want to Change the World" from , for  of . Wagener also mixed the live album  released on 28 June 1993. Intended to be Osbourne's final album, it went  four times over, and ranked at number 10 on that year's . At this point Osbourne expressed his fatigue with touring, and proclaimed his "retirement tour" (which was to be short-lived). It was called "No More Tours", a pun on No More Tears. '  took over on bass and Kevin Jones played keyboards as Sinclair was touring with .

Osbourne's entire CD catalogue was remastered and reissued in 1995. In 1995 Osbourne released  and returned to touring, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement Sucks Tour". The album reached number 4 on the US . The RIAA certified the album gold and platinum in that same year, and double platinum in April 1999.

The line-up on Ozzmosis was Wylde, Butler (who had just quit Black Sabbath again) and former ,  and  drummer , who later joined . Keyboards were played by  and producer . The tour maintained Butler and Castronovo and saw Sinclair return, but a major line-up change was the introduction of former  guitarist . Wylde was considering an offer to join . Unable to wait for a decision on Wylde's departure, Osbourne replaced him. In early 1996, Butler and Castronovo left. Inez and  (, ) filled in. Ultimately, 's  and former  and future  bassist  joined on drums and bass respectively. A greatest hits package, , was issued in 1997.

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