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OZZY THROWS SHARON UNDER THE BUS

  • Axl Rosenberg
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OZZY THROWS SHARON UNDER THE BUS

Here’s something interesting I just read on Blabbermouth. This is Ozzy Osbourne talking about the decision to remove Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake’s tracks from the 2002  reissues of Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman and have them replaced with new recordings by Robert Trujillo and Mike Bordin:

Ozzy told The Pulse of Radio he was against the idea of replacing the original tracks when he found out about it. “Believe me, it wasn’t my doing,” he said. “I mean, I didn’t know that was being done, ’cause Sharon was fighting all the legal things that were going down at the time. I said, ‘What did you do that for?’ And she said, ‘The only way I could stop everything was if it went to that level.’ And I said, ‘You know what, whatever the circumstances were, I want the original thing back.’ I mean, I wouldn’t have done that.”

It’s pretty funny to see Ozzy place all the blame on his wife, although it isn’t hard to imagine that he’s telling the truth. Still, this is why you have to pay attention to what your handlers are doing. If he was against it, how did it ever get so far as to have the re-recordings done without his knowledge? Why not just cancel the reissues? Maybe if your brain was functioning properly, dude, it never would have gone down that way.

In any case, the original, proper recordings of those classic albums are getting another reissue sometime this year. I can already tell you that they will be both be better than Scream.

-AR

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