Ozzy Osbourne — Diary Of A Madman [Vinyl LP]

Ozzy Osbourne — Diary Of A Madman [Vinyl LP · Remastered 180g]

Details

• Format: Vinyl LP, Album Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180g
• Catalogue Number: 88697 86665 1
• Barcode: 886978666512
• Genre: Heavy Metal
• Label: Sony / Epic / Legacy / Jet
• Originally Released: 7 November 1981
• This Edition Released: 2022
• Pressing: 180g remastered LP reissue on Epic / Legacy, pressed in Europe
• Condition: New & Sealed

Description

Diary Of A Madman is Ozzy Osbourne's second solo album and the last recording guitarist Randy Rhoads completed before his death in March 1982. Released in November 1981 on the back of the runaway success of Blizzard Of Ozz, it reunited the same touring line-up — Ozzy, Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake — in a studio that had had a year to grow together, and the playing tells.

The album opens with the hook-laden Over The Mountain and Flying High Again, two of the heaviest-rotation singles of Ozzy's solo catalogue. Between them sits the ballad You Can't Kill Rock And Roll, the sprawling Believer, and the Middle-Eastern-tinged Little Dolls. Side two closes on Tonight, S.A.T.O. and the title track, the latter of which is as close as metal in 1981 got to a Bartók-inflected mini-concerto, with its classical-guitar intro, shifting time signatures and choral coda.

This 180g remastered LP reissue, released in 2022 on Epic / Legacy, is pressed in Europe and uses the restored original Daisley / Kerslake rhythm tracks.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Over The Mountain
2. Flying High Again
3. You Can't Kill Rock And Roll
4. Believer

Side B

1. Little Dolls
2. Tonight
3. S.A.T.O.
4. Diary Of A Madman

Credits

• Ozzy Osbourne — Lead Vocals
• Randy Rhoads — Guitar
• Bob Daisley — Bass
• Lee Kerslake — Drums
• Max Norman & Ozzy Osbourne — Producers
• Louis Clark — String Arrangement on "Diary Of A Madman"
• George Marino — Mastering (2010, Sterling Sound)
• 180g remastered LP reissue on Sony / Epic / Legacy / Jet — uses the 2011 30th-anniversary mastering with restored original Daisley / Kerslake rhythm tracks
• Pressed at MPO in Europe