Label: Epic Records (Japan), EICP 784
Style: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Country: Marston Green, Warwickshire, England (3 December 1948)
Time: 73:45
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 567 Mb
Charts:
UK #13, AUS #46, CAN #17, FIN #13, GER #41, JPN #176, NZ #36, SWE #17,
US #6. Australia & Canada: Gold; US: Platinum.
The album was
released in memory of Randy Rhoads, guitarist for Osbourne's band
between 1979 and 1982 who died in a plane crash while on tour in Florida
in 1982. The album also includes studio outtakes of Rhoads recording
the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece "Dee", which Rhoads wrote
for his mother Delores and which was originally included on Osbourne's
debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz.
A live album consisting entirely of
renditions of Black Sabbath songs was originally planned to be recorded
at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in mid-1982 with Rhoads. Rhoads and
drummer Tommy Aldridge felt that they had established themselves as
recording artists and an album of cover songs would be a step backwards
artistically, and they refused to participate. Bassist Rudy Sarzo was
uncomfortable with refusing to perform, not having the same recording
pedigree of his bandmates, but he stood with them and the trio informed
management of their decision. Osbourne felt betrayed and his
relationship with Rhoads never fully recovered. Plans for this proposed
live album crumbled upon Rhoads' sudden death weeks later, though the
plan was resurrected with the release of Speak of the Devil later that
year with Sarzo and Aldridge joined by Night Ranger guitarist Brad
Gillis.
The majority of Tribute, from "I Don't Know" through to
"Paranoid", was recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio on 11 May 1981.
"Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies" are taken from an earlier
English gig in support of the Blizzard of Ozz album, possibly from
Southampton on 2 October 1980. These two tracks feature bassist Bob
Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake.
The versions of "Iron Man",
"Children of the Grave", and "Paranoid" featured on Tribute were
originally intended to be included on the 1982 live album Speak of the
Devil. In the months following Rhoads' death, these three songs were
intended to be released in tribute to the guitarist, but a record
company decision was made to save them for a full album to be released
at a later date.
The recording of "Crazy Train" that appears on this
album was also released as the album's only single on 10 February 1987,
along with an accompanying music video. The album's cover photo was
taken at a performance in Rosemont, Illinois on 24 January 1982, by
photographer Paul Natkin.
The operatic music which opens Tribute, as
well as all of Osbourne's live shows of that era, is "O Fortuna" from
the Carmina Burana scenic cantata by Carl Orff. This introductory music
was omitted from the 1995 remaster, with opening track "I Don't Know"
subsequently being shortened to 4:43.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_(Ozzy_Osbourne_album))
01. I Don't Know (05:40)
02. Crazy Train (05:19)
03. Believer (05:08)
04. Mr. Crowley (05:37)
05. Flying High Again (04:17)
06. Revelation (Mother Earth) (05:58)
07. Steal Away (The Night) with Drum Solo (08:04)
08. Suicide Solution with Guitar Solo (07:46)
09. Iron Man (02:50)
10. Children Of The Grave (05:57)
11. Paranoid (02:59)
12. Goodbye To Romance (05:33)
13. No Bone Movies (04:08)
14. Dee (Randy Rhoads Studio Out-Takes) (04:22)
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