When Ozzy Osbourne launched his solo career in the early 1980s with the help of the late, great Randy Rhoads, he tracked and released two albums in an 18 month period: Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.
Both records are widely considered to be some of the Prince of Darkness’s finest solo LPs – Classic Rock ranks the pair as the first and second best Ozzy albums – and while that sentiment remains steadfast today, it turns out that there were some minor reservations about Diary of a Madman at the time.
