The resurrection of Ozzy Osbourne after he was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 is one of rock’n’roll‘s great redemption stories. Despondent and in a permanent haze of alcohol and cocaine, he spent months holed up in a Los Angeles hotel room as he tried to work out if he even had a career left.
It was only when he was introduced to hotshot guitarist Randy Rhoads that Ozzy realised that maybe did have a future after all. The album they recorded with bassist/co-songwriter Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake, 1980’s Blizzard Of Ozz, helped pull the singer back from the brink of oblivion and turn him into one of the biggest stars of the next decade and beyond.
