• Blizzard of Ozz is the debut studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, released on 12 September 1980 in the UK and on 27 March 1981 in...
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    The Blizzard of Ozz Tour was the debut concert tour as a solo artist by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, who had been fired from the English...
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  • songs recorded live during the second leg of the Blizzard of Ozz Tour. Disc 2 of the 2011 Legacy Edition of Diary of a Madman was also released as a limited...
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    of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot, and the guitarist and co-songwriter for Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo albums Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and Diary of...
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    began a successful solo career with Blizzard of Ozz in 1980 and has released 13 studio albums, the first seven of which received multi-platinum certifications...
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    Robert Trujillo (category American musicians of Mexican descent)
    subject of controversy for re-recording Bob Daisley's bass tracks for reissued versions of Osbourne's first two solo albums Blizzard of Ozz (1980) and...
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  • from 1980's Blizzard of Ozz to 1986's The Ultimate Sin. Best of Ozz is a ten-track compilation featuring three tracks from Blizzard of Ozz, two tracks...
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  • co-production on the group's first album, Blizzard of Ozz, and co-wrote all of the material on the follow-up album Diary of a Madman but both he and drummer Lee...
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    Mike Bordin (category American people of Russian descent)
    solo albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, for the controversial remasters released in 2002. The re-recordings were the result of a lawsuit brought...
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    early in 1979, Osbourne formed a solo band (initially known as Blizzard of Ozz) in November of that year with guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley...
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  • solo artist, Blizzard of Ozz (1980). The song was written by Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, and Bob Daisley. The lyrics deal with the subject of the Cold War...
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    Ozzy Osbourne discography (category Discographies of British artists)
    consisting of guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake. The group released their debut album Blizzard of Ozz in 1980, which...
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    Osbourne's first two solo albums, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, as well as the 1980 Live EP and parts of the 1987 Tribute live album. Kerslake...
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  • Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album) (category Albums in memory of deceased persons)
    originally included on Osbourne's debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz. A live album consisting entirely of renditions of Black Sabbath songs was originally planned...
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  • Osbourne, from his 1980 debut album Blizzard of Ozz. Osbourne said in 1991 that the song was about the alcohol-related death of AC/DC's Bon Scott in 1980, but...
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  • track "I Don't Want to Change the World". Along with 1980's Blizzard of Ozz it is one of Osbourne's two best-selling solo albums in North America, having...
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    Ozzfest (redirect from OzzFest)
    Ozzfest was an annual music festival tour of the United States and sometimes Europe and later Japan, featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard...
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    Jack Osbourne (category American people of Anglo-Irish descent)
    (born 8 November 1985) is a British-American media personality. He is the son of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, and Sharon Osbourne. He starred on MTV's...
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  • Mr. Crowley (category Cultural depictions of Aleister Crowley)
    guitarist/lyricist Bob Daisley, it was released on Osbourne's debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz in September 1980 in the United Kingdom. A live version was released...
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  • from Osbourne's 1980 album Blizzard of Ozz. A ballad, the song has been characterized as influenced by the chord progressions of Pachelbel's Canon (or the...
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    Don Airey (category Alumni of the University of Nottingham)
    at the Moon and Speak of the Devil. He also played on the Diary of a Madman Tour from 1981 to 1982 and appears on Blizzard of Ozz and was also the only...
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    of Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist, he released the albums Book of Shadows and Book of Shadows...
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  • ranging from Blizzard of Ozz (1980) to The Ultimate Sin (1986). Ten Commandments is a ten-track compilation from Osbourne's first couple of albums after...
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  • 2005. Retrieved 26 October 2015. Wilding, Philip (January 2002). "Return to Ozz". Classic Rock. No. 36. p. 52. Archived from the original on 13 September...
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    Kelly Osbourne (category Actors from the City of Westminster)
    English TV personality, singer, actress, and fashion designer. The daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, she came to prominence while appearing on the reality...
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  • Aimee Osbourne (category Actors from the City of Westminster)
    daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. Her father Ozzy also has two older children from his previous 11-year marriage to his first wife Thelma Riley, one of whom...
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    Geezer Butler (category British people of Irish descent)
    retired English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded and performed with...
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    pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with their first three albums Black Sabbath, Paranoid (both 1970), and Master of Reality...
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    Deen Castronovo (category Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from March 2021)
    17, 1964) is an American drummer and singer best known for being a member of classic rock band Journey and hard rock acts Bad English and Hardline. He...
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    Sharon Osbourne (category Alumni of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts)
    coordinated the recruitment of a backing band (Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake) for the recording of the Blizzard of Ozz album and helped Ozzy launch...
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