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Here's the first song we wrote.

Harmony.

That's high.

Fucking hell. Always high!

| had no idea it was 30 years.

But then again, it is, isn't it? It's gone by so quick.

They say time flies when you're having fun.

Working on those two records with Ozzy and Randy,

was one of the best times of Ozzy's and my life together.

Both of those albums are amazing. Great songs, and great musicianship.

Both of those albums had a big impact on us, as bands.

When I first heard Blizzard Of Ozz, it was so intense!

And | just thought, "Now this is refreshing."

What was the story of this song?

When | left Sabbath, it was my way of saying goodbye. My farewell song to Sabbath.

At that moment in time, it just wasn't working, with Ozz.

Alcoholism and dope addiction was rampant in our band.

Me and Ozzy were pretty tight with each other, as far as drinking and using habits together.

So | think that plays a huge part in communications,

and in the development of new records, in the development of the music.

They fired me 'cause they reckoned | was too stoned,

but it's like the pot calling the kettle black, in the respect that we were all stoned.

| was probably picked out because | was up early in the morning,

getting stoned before everybody else!

The whole thing for me was having fun, and | wasn't having fun with it anymore.

| suppose it was the end of a great thing.

I'd been fired from Sabbath,

and | remember thinking, "It's all over now."

| thought it was the end of the story, for me.

All of Sabbath were living together at that time, and writing a new album.

So when Ozzy got fired, he had nowhere to go.

So I put him in Le Parc Hotel.

| remember being at Le Parc, and | thought, "Well, this is my last fling.�

| thought it would be back to reality after that. The dream was over.

So | just drank, ordered food in, pizzas and burgers and whatever,

just had my last big fling for a few months.

When | actually did go visit him at Le Parc,

it was a really bad situation.

| went into the apartment, the curtains were drawn,

his little kitchen area there was full of pizza boxes and beer cans,

and every bottle you could imagine that had alcohol in,

at one time, was empty in his sink.

Sharon come round to me one day, and said,

"Look, if you clean yourself up and get yourself together, we want to manage you."

Which was a total shock.

| didn't think anybody was interested in me, you know.

She said, "You've got to start auditioning guys for a band."

This guy who was my initial choice for a bass player, Dana Strum,

he says, "You've got to meet this one guy, he's just amazing."

He brought round Randy Rhoads, and I looked at him in my drunken haze,

and he looked like a...little doll.

Randy Rhoads came out of this band from LA called Quiet Riot

that no one had ever heard of.

Quiet Riot was kind of this Slade, Mott the Hoople, glam-rock, power-pop band.

| heard him play at this recording studio that we went round to.

| thought | was hallucinating, 'cause I'd taken so much drugs and alcohol.

And | said, �| don't know what you're made of, but I'm interested in what you've got to offer."

| walked into the studio, and this blonde thing came up to me,

and it was Randy.

He was so little, you know. You can't believe how small he was.

With his suit hung up on a peg, it looked like a doll's outfit.

Tiny.

Then he'd come out and play all this stuff, you know.

Little tiny hands, big guitar.

Ozzy, coming from Black Sabbath and a huge career,

could have had any guitar player in the world.

And the fact that he pulled out some guy that was as knowledgeable about writing,

and melody... it's pretty amazing.

There was always discussions about musical direction.

Its something which has to be discussed.

| wanted to be more mainstream, without selling out.

| wanted to be more accessible.

It was Ozzy's band, and | wanted it to reflect Ozzy.

Randy was great at coming out With semi-commercial kind of vibes.

It wasn't, like, avant-garde stuff.

His guitar was an extension of him, you know.

We went to a place in England...

it's a well-known rehearsal place called John Henry's.

He was in there, messing around with his guitar, and he did the riff to Suicide Solution.

| says, "What was that?" He goes, "What was what?"

"What you just played." "[ didn't play anything."

"Yes, you did." He went, "Oh, this?"

"Do it again." And that's how that came about.

What | want to know, is about this track. This isn't on...

Suck me, bitch.

What is it? What am | saying?

Suck me!

What it was... we didn't have a guitar, so | was fucking around with different effects.

That was more for the echo from speaker to speaker.

So you're doing this kind of thing, here.

Your flaps, your vag, your flaps...

What are "flaps"?

Flaps are a woman's sexual organs.

"Vagina."

It's just fucking around...

Flaps, flaps, flaps.

Suck me.

Smoke it.

It's one of those African...

| feel the rain.

What are you talking about the rain?

| ain't got a fucking clue.

We found a studio called Ridge Farm, which is near Dorking,

and that's in the south of England.

And it was basically an old farmhouse.

Being a New Yorker,

recording studios were in cement buildings, behind iron doors.

This was like, a big, wooden, old, turn-of-the-century barn,

so it was truly the ultimate British countryside experience.

It was run by a family. Ozzy went down there and just loved it,

'cause | think the entire family was on wacky weed all day long,

so Ozzy was in heaven down there.

It was a hippy vibe, you know? A lot of dope-smoking going on, and boozing.

They had an in-house engineer at the studio, called Max Norman.

A young guy.

He had a very good attitude with them, because he was respectful of Ozzy,

and he got on great with Randy.

The chemistry was there. It worked.

Sometimes when it's just magic, you cant define why.

But it was just magic. The whole combination.

On every album I've done, solo, I've always tried to do one epic track.

You don�t necessarily have to do it live, but it's like a good album track.

| love this song.

| think the fact that Randy was classically influenced was so important,

especially bridging metal, pop and classical.

He was a phenomenal player. Fucking genius, man.

The more | started learning guitar, Randy was my favorite guy.

It started out from great technique - it was his compositional skills.

When you really listen to his solos,

his solos are a composition Within a composition.

It's like its own little song.

When you listen to his solos, there's actual moments of uniqueness.

When | say unique, | mean things that have never been done by a player.

How much of these tracks took shape in the studio?

| think this one kind of took shape in the studio, but not many of them.

Like, you rehearsed it all first...

Oh, yeah.

We used to rent a farmhouse in Wales.

Which is like, next to England. British Isles.

And it was like a farmhouse, and we used to just live there for a while, writing stuff.

What's this?

It's just at the end of the tape.

Randy just kept playing.

He just keeps going!

Good stuff.

I'm not even soloing it, that's all that's on the tape, there.

So he must have just...

Kept on going.

..just had to burn off some steam or something.

That's pretty cool. | love it when | brought out these tracks and hear those things,

that nobody's heard in 30 years, right?

I've never heard that.

It was actually not an easy thing to get a deal for Ozzy.

Ozzy made the album, and then we tried to get a deal with it.

So we had to go to Warner Brothers first.

Mo Ostin from Warner Brothers...

Black Sabbath was signed to Warner Brothers.

Mo Ostin sent me a letter going, "Nice try, but we're gonna pass on it."

It went along the lines of, "A very good try, Ozzy,

"but I'm afraid we're gonna have to pass this time.

"But don�t give up, and please send us your next record. We'd love to hear it."

Tony Martell was a legend in the music business,

and when Sharon was telling people about Ozzy Osbourne,

Tony Martell was the first guy to pick up the phone and say,

"| want Ozzy Osbourne on my label."

Firstly, what a great title. What a great title!

Just that phrase, Blizzard Of Ozz - it means so much.

You look at it, you go, "My God, what's this?

"Ozzy's back. Brilliant!"

| liked Blizzard Of Ozz, me. | was a real fan of that album.

It was the first time I'd really heard Ozzy let out.

Before, it was, like, Tony's band, more.

Whereas now, he was the boss.

He established himself for ten years as the singer of Black Sabbath,

and then, here comes his first solo record, Blizzard Of Ozz,

sounding nothing like Sabbath,

but so definable "Ozzy Osbourne solo career" from the get-go, out of the gate.

And nothing else sounds like it.

First time | heard Blizzard Of Ozz, | was pretty much in awe.

It didn't sound like anything I'd ever heard before.

During the time that Randy had joined Ozzy,

he had become really defined in who he was.

The Blizzard stuff was a beautiful evolution,

from what was happening in the '70s with metal, to the '80s.

It was a great introduction to metal in the '80s.

"Cause there wasn't anything quite as heavy going on, that | was aware of.

It had a completely different attitude.

Ozzy'd never got a good review in his entire career with Sabbath,

and suddenly, everybody was on Ozzy's side as far as the press goes,

and that was like, "This is weird. This is not meant to happen like this."

The guy's a real musician.

His voice is just brilliant. Its beautiful.

If you listen to the vocal work on everything that he's done,

it's very unique and very special.

And instantly identifiable.

His voice holds its own place in the whole frequency spectrum.

Its got its own zip code.

There isn't anybody in the world sounds like Ozz.

Everybody clap hands, come on.

After The Blizzard was recorded, and out in the UK -

and it was just an instant success - we started to tour.

| remember the first gig we did was Glasgow Apollo.

When the venues went up, it was instantly sold out. It was incredible.

As in most bands, there's always a special connection with the guitar player,

and the front man, whoever's holding the mic.

And that was definitely the case with Ozz and Randy.

Ozzy would talk to me about Randy all the time.

And he loved him. He really loved him, and he thought the world of him.

We worked so well together. It was like we were made for each other.

Thank you!

Fucking full on. Great player, man.

He loved it. He loved playing guitar.

You can tell. He was fucking great, man.

| remember as this fade-out was going,

| remember turning my stereo up, because the fade-out's going down.

I'd turn the stereo up louder and louder, and all of a sudden the next song starts.

| mean, it's still good.

| think the fade-out was done around here.

But we'd edit blocks, often.

Edit one part that we liked, and attach it to another.

�Thank you, thank you very much."

| didn't know this was going on so long.

Sharon was always thinking one step ahead.

What was the right thing to do, to excel Ozzy Osbourne's career?

Before he came over here to tour, they quickly threw him in the studio,

and in six weeks, made the second album.

Because, once he came to America, he was gonna tour nonstop.

It was 1981, at the Palladium Theatre.

The show sold out very, very quickly. It was a hot show.

Mot�rhead opened the show.

The Ozzy-Mot�rhead tour was probably the dirtiest tour I've ever been on.

The atmosphere on that tour was fantastic, but it was very over-the-top.

Everything that went along with rock 'n' roll - sex and drugs, really.

On the first half of it, | thought Ozzy was going to die,

'cause he was indulgent in them days.

And then Sharon saved his life.

'Cause he was, like, really in a mess.

| remember one day, she phoned me. She goes, "I've got some great news."

"What's that, darling?"

�They've put the Palladium show on in New York, and it sold out in a heartbeat.

"They wanna do another show." "What?"

Ron Delsener, the promoter, calls me and goes, "I need another date."

I'm like, "Haven't got one. We're working the next night, and the next night.

"There's no other dates | can give you."

"Do two shows in one day." I'm like, "Bloody hell, Ron. I'll ask Ozzy."

People used to do two shows in those days!

You'd do an eight, and a midnight.

It was common to leave a building at four in the morning.

So I go to Ozzy, "Two shows in one day?" and he's like, "Sure!

"When we were at the Star Club in Hamburg, we used to do seven shows a day.

"We!ll do it!"

Randy's like, "Whoa, The Palladium, New York! Fantastic!"

| don't particularly remember playing the gig,

although watching this film, it took me back to that period of time in my life,

when it was just fine, you know?

Why the fuck did | wear them tassel T-shirts all the time?

What was wrong with me?

But that was kind of my image, | suppose.

| wasn't so much looking at me, as looking at Randy.

Just the feel of seeing him on stage, playing.

| kind of was there, for a little bit.

I've never seen this before, ever.

| thought I'd seen it all. This is unbelievable.

When Ozzy and the doves collided, it was front-page news around the world.

And of course, as we've been told, it was totally unexpected. It wasn't planned.

It was just Ozz being Ozz.

All the heads of all the departments wanted to meet Ozzy.

We were like, "Oh, shit. This is just another load of suits.

"Nobody knows who you are. It's a waste of time, but we have to do it."

We were talking the night before, and we were saying, "What can we do to liven it up?"

And then came up with, "Let's do doves of peace."

| thought, "Yeah, OK..."

"Let's take in a couple of nice, white doves, and let them fly around,

�and everybody will go, 'Ooh, ahh, that's lovely,' and it'll break the ice."

| threw one up in the air, got the other one, and bit its head off.

Everybody was like...

It just shocked the shit out of everybody.

Instantly, in one hour, everyone knew that Ozzy Osbourne had arrived.

You can't buy that kind of press, or publicity, or PR.

And I'm sure that everybody in the boardroom at that record label went, "Oh, my God...

"What did | just see? Please don't let that be real."

We got back home,

and within half an hour, the head of legal, David Benjamin, called me up,

and said, "We really want to drop you. We don't want to release the record.

"We want you off."

And the next day, the record went to radio.

When we first took Crazy Train to rock radio,

it was shortly after the incident of biting the head of the dove.

Everybody was very curious as to what this music would sound like, and who he was.

When | first heard Crazy Train,

you know, there's the cool groove coming in, and then this...freight train of a guitar...

comes screaming in.

| think it was the first time | ever heard a rock track,

where the guitar came in, and | got scared.

It just happened all so quickly, it was like, one thing after another was a success.

It was like a flu that spread. One person gets it,

and then everyone in America had an Ozzy album, and knew of Ozzy.

Ozzy Osbourne had two records simultaneously on the Billboard charts.

The first time you saw him - great rock-'n'-roll show, but there was nothing on stage.

Now, you saw a full-blown castle...

It was like this Gothic archway thing...

the best stage set I've ever worked with. It's so cool.

We had a midget.

It was a great set. It looked like a castle.

And the steps opened up, and he came up, in the throne.

The production was killer. With the big castle, it was mind-blowing.

| remember, 'cause they opened up With Over The Mountain.

I'm like, "Oh, man! This is the one with the big guitar solo."

| always liked custard pie fights in old movies. Marx Brothers, and all that stuff.

So | thought I'd throw meat into the audience, and then it got more and more.

People started to bring meat, then they started to bring animals, dead rats...

Kids were coming in with cows' heads, big bullfrogs, and snakes...

and then, somebody decided to throw on a bat.

| just picked this thing up. | thought it was a Halloween bat.

| crunched it in my mouth...

and | look on the side, and Sharon's going...

| freaked, because the first thing | think of is,

"Rabies. That's it, he's gonna die. Rabies!"

I had to go to the hospital afterwards, and they started giving me rabies shots.

Which are not a very good way to relax after a concert!

It was just a pure fluke.

It wasn't planned, it wasn't anything. It was in the heat of the moment.

Such a simple thing - he thought it was a toy bat, he bit the head off,

and now, 20 rabies shots later, bum-out.

But even he jokes about it. He's like, "II do all this stuff,

�and that's the shit that'll be on my grave - The Dude That Bit The Head Off A Bat."

| think the real difference in Blizzard Of Ozz into Diary Of A Madman was,

Ozzy and Randy got to really know each other,

and | think Randy got to feel confident enough to pull from more of his classical roots.

That first album was a moment in time,

but it was the time after it that led into that second record, which was brilliant.

| shared an apartment in London with Randy.

And | was fucked up, crashed out on the couch,

and he was having a guitar lesson on his classical, and | went, "I'm stealing that."

It's from a classical piece that he was learning.

| just adapted it.

Weird timing, isn't it?

Yeah.

It's fantastic, though. | mean, it's awesome.

It makes it more interesting, to have that.

That's the London Chamber Choir.

Was it?

The real thing. And the strings were London Symphony.

The first time | heard Diary Of A Madman,

| remember hearing the strings and the guitar part, and going, "What the hell is this?"

Perfect melding of the classical, hard-rock thing, together.

When you listen to Rand with Ozz, it's almost like Ozz was the perfect foil,

because of the whole classical thing.

Because of the dark stuff, and you know... the flat fives, and everything like that.

The scales that he uses in Diary Of A Madman are insane.

All the diminished stuff, and everything Randy was using.

Real strings. You can't beat real strings, and real players.

No, it's fantastic.

That's great.

There's two Ozzys - there's the Ozzy that I love, that I respect,

then there's Ozzy who drinks.

That's the Ozzy that sort of scares me.

| thought that a lot of the stories might have been just hype,

but when he told me the story of the Alamo...

it's not something that you can even make up,

and it's not something that you can even plot.

What Sharon would do, when I'd be drinking - she'd go out and take my clothes,

so | didn't have any clothes to wear, to go out and get drunk.

So | put one of her dresses on, and | went out.

And | was stumbling around San Antonio, and | wanted to take a pee.

So | found this old wall. | thought it was an alleyway.

And | got busted for urinating over a national treasure, or something!

A punk-rock star, who will appear at Reunion Arena tonight,

has managed to offend the entire state of Texas.

Yesterday, he was arrested in San Antonio for urinating on the grounds of the Alamo.

| ended up in a jail, in this cell with this guy who'd just murdered his wife.

I'm in this green evening dress, thinking,

"This is gonna end up really ugly if | don't watch what I'm doing.

By the time he'd got arrested at the Alamo, and bailed out,

it was as if he was, like, the Antichrist.

All these kind of things - you know, pissing up the Alamo...

They're kind of commonplace for me.

It's really normal, having spent so much of my life with him.

It was just the press, and people perpetuating it,

and making the story bigger.

Osbourne has a reputation - real or not - for biting the heads off bats,

and tonight, Osbourne is unveiling his act here in Dallas.

Channel 8's Robert Riggs reports

there were rumors of plans to brutalize animals during his performance.

Get over it, you know? There's more to me than just the bat, the dove and the Alamo.

| remember we were driving from Knoxville, Tennessee,

to Orlando, Florida, to do a gig with Foreigner.

And | was up all night. Randy was writing his own thing,

and he says to me, "You know what?

"Rock 'n' roll's not gonna be the be-all and end-all of my life."

He says, "| want to get a degree in classical music."

The last two years of his lite had been, �Whoa!"

It had been unbelievable for him.

Ozzy and |... behavior was really way over the top,

and | think it was getting to be a bit too much for him.

| mean, Ozzy and | would either be making love,

or beating the shit out of each other.

And you've got to remember we were all together on one bus,

and | think it was a lot for him to take in.

The bus driver was driving like a crazy guy.

I'd gone to bed at about 6:30 in the morning.

There was something wrong with the bus,

and the driver said, "We have to go past our base,

�and then we'll carry on to the gig."

The tour-bus company also chartered small aircrafts and helicopters,

and unbeknownst to me, the driver was also a pilot.

And he was asking everybody if they wanted to go up in the little propeller planes,

and everybody did go up.

And then it was Randy's turn to go up.

And...that was it.

I've never played with a guitar player that has never, at some point, said,

"This is very Randy Rhoads-ish."

You hear his name, along with the greatest that there is.

| wish Randy was still here, 'cause he was great fun.

But then, there's a lot of people I wish were still here.

Randy's playing is timeless. It's like a template for a rock-metal guitar player.

Ask any of the guitar players of my genre, they all love Randy.

He was a phenomenal guy.

It was a part of my life that seemed as long as anything else,

and yet it was over in a flash.

| can remember the time with Randy Rhoads,

as much as | can remember the time with Black Sabbath.

| lost a dear friend in my life.

Brilliant.