“A lot of people said it was Ozzy’s worst record ever. By the late ’90s, I thought, ‘I guess it was. I just really sucked on it’”: Jake E. Lee on his battle to make Ozzy Osbourne’s The Ultimate Sin – and how he learned to love it in spite of the critics

An iconic B/W shot of Ozzy Osbourne embracing Jake E. Lee as he takes a solo during a show.

When Jake E. Lee was hired by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne in 1982, he was a young gun with no experience and huge chops. The former led to a lack of songwriting and publishing on his first record with Ozzy, 1983’s Bark at the Moon.

Lee wasn’t happy, and he wasn’t going to allow a sequel to unfold during Ozzy’s next record, 1986’s The Ultimate Sin.