Label: CBS Records / Sony Records (Japan), 25DP 5220
Style: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Country: Marston Green, Warwickshire, England (3 December 1948)
Time: 39:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 273 Mb
Much
of the album was written by guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob
Daisley, and Ozzy Osbourne while staying at the Monnow Valley Studio
near Monmouth, Wales, with a friend of Osbourne's named Barry Scrannage
performing as the group's drummer. Scrannage was never considered as a
candidate to be the group's permanent drummer and was not involved in
the songwriting process at all. The band recorded demos of the songs "I
Don't Know" (which became Osbourne's second most-performed song), "Crazy
Train" (the most performed one), "Goodbye to Romance", and "You Looking
at Me Looking at You" in Birmingham in early 1980 with ex-Lone Star
drummer Dixie Lee. They had hoped Lee would be a permanent member but
"he wasn't the final piece of the puzzle", bassist Daisley recalls.
After auditioning several drummers, ex-Uriah Heep member Lee Kerslake
was hired as the permanent drummer. The completed lineup retreated to
Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire for six days to rehearse and give
Kerslake an opportunity to learn the new songs. A week later, they
travelled to Ridge Farm Studio to commence recording.
The first track
written for the album was "Goodbye to Romance". Osbourne has stated
that the song was his way of saying goodbye to his former band Black
Sabbath, as he had thought his career was over after leaving the band.
After performing a show in Birmingham, the band hastily returned to
Ridge Farm to remix "Goodbye to Romance" for a single. The next morning
they were informed that their label Jet Records instead wanted a brand
new song to release as a single. Rhoads, Daisley, and Kerslake quickly
put together the song "You Said It All", with drummer Kerslake
performing the guide vocal at soundcheck while a drunken Osbourne slept
under the drum riser. The song was ultimately never recorded, though a
live version was released on Ozzy Osbourne Live EP in 1980.
(full version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_Ozz)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. I Don't Know (05:16)
02. Crazy Train (04:56)
03. Goodbye To Romance (05:36)
04. Dee (00:50)
05. Suicide Solution (04:20)
06. Mr. Crowley (05:02)
07. No Bone Movies (03:53)
08. Revelation (Mother Earth) (06:09)
09. Steal Away (The Night) (03:29)
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