As Ozzy’s biggest hit Osbourne took years to be done

With the Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne He founded Heavy Metal and helped develop it throughout the 1970s. However, it was in a solo career from 1980 that the singer reached stardom and also his best performance in commercial terms.

More specifically, it was with the ballad “Mama, I’m Coming Home” that Ozzy got for the first and only time in his career to enter the top 40 of the Billboard – The song reached 28th position.

Released on the album At More Tears (1991), the track had the contribution of Zakk Wyldeguitarist of the Prince of Darkness at the time, and also Lemmy Kilmisterfrom Motörhead. Something that explains a little about the fact that she took a few years to get ready.

According to Ozzy himself explained in the notes of the insert of compilation The Ozzman Cometh (1997), via Guitar playerThe melody of the song had been with him for some time, but had not yet materialized musically through some instrument. He said:

“I had been with my head melody a few years ago, but I never had a chance to finish it until it works with Zakk on the album At More Tears. At that time, Zakk and I composed a lot on the piano. ”

It was with this instrument, therefore, that Ozzy and Zakk managed to shape the composition that the singer was developing in his head. In a recent statement to the same magazine, the guitarist explained:

“So we were playing piano, and Ozzy had that melody. I don’t know if it was just his love for Beatlesbut if you hear those records of Sabbath and everything he did with Randy Rhoads and Jake E. LeeOzzy is simply the king of melody. ”

Lemmy gives Ozzy Osbourne a force

The lyrics were in charge of Lemmy and was designed in a matter of a few hours. The story is curious, because it was Sharon Osbourne Who called him to write it.

The leader of Motörhead shared reflections on how the partnership came up in its autobiography White Line Fever (2002) – Via Igor Miranda website. It all started after a call from Ozzy’s wife and businesswoman.

Lemmy, deceased in 2015, said in the book:

“This was one of the easiest works I’ve ever had. Sharon called me and said, ‘I’ll give you a number of money X to make some songs to Ozzy, and I said,’ Okay, do you have a pen? ‘. I wrote six or seven sequences of words and he ended up using four of them.”

The late vocalist and bassist added, proud of how much he made:

“I made more money with the composition of these four songs than in fifteen years of Motörhead. Absurd, isn’t it?! ”

The four compositions cited by Lemmy and that Ozzy used in At More Tears they were: “I Don’t Want To Change The World”, “Desire”, “Mama, I’m Coming Home” and “Hellraiser ”. The last song mentioned also won a version of the Motörhead on the disc MARCH ÖR DIE (1992).

At More Tears and “Mama, I’m Coming Home”

At More Tears yielded great results. It reached 7th place from the American parade and 17th in British, in addition to 8th position in Finland and an entrance to the top 50 of several other countries.

“Mama, I’m Coming Home”in turn, it became Ozzy Osbourne’s great solo hit next to “Crazy Train”. He reached 28th in the United States charts and 45th in the United Kingdom, as well as accumulating over 130 million youtube executions and 300 million on Spotify. With the death of Osbourne last July, the track returned to the charts of 10 countries, including the two mentioned, Canada, Russia and Sweden.

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