“It was the most amazing thing. I couldn’t have written it better myself because it was just so perfectly me!" How Ozzy Osbourne produced his most emotional anthem with some inspiration from his wife Sharon - and a stunning assist from Lemmy

Ozzy Osbourne in black and white looking at the camera.

By the dawn of the 90s, Ozzy Osbourne had already done the impossible - he’d survived being Ozzy. He’d been fired from Black Sabbath, reborn as a solo artist, arrested, hospitalised, mythologised, and written off more times than he could count. By all rational measures, he should’ve been a footnote by now, a cautionary tale of unchecked rockstar debauchery. Instead, he was gearing up for his sixth studio album, No More Tears, with a new guitarist, a sober head, and a renewed sense of purpose.

“It was a great time for me,” said Ozzy, speaking to Metal Hammer years later. “I had a point to make and it was a good album. That album was a resurrection, very well made.”