#Música.Ozzie & Randy

January 18th 1982 was a day off for The Ozzy Osbourne band. At this time the band was touring the 1st leg of the Diary Of A Madman Tour. It was said, at this time Randy had become incredibly interested in Classical Guitar. He had bought a very expensive Spanish Classical Guitar when royalties for the Blizzard Of Ozz album started coming in. During the North American tours, it was stated by Delores Rhoads that after shows Randy would goto his room in the hotel and stay up all hours of the night working on his music. He would get very little sleep. As the band finished touring Blizzard Of Ozz and moved onto touring the Diary album, Randy would begin to ask himself if this lifestyle on the road was what he really wanted? At times he would begin to become home sick. Having Rudy Sarzo there on tour with him helped alot. Also starting to take shape at this time would be the issue between Randy and Ozzy over the recording of the «Speak Of The Devil» album, which would become a real issue with Randy because it would be required of him recording some Black Sabbath songs as well as some of their own from Blizzard and Diary . Ozzy needed to record this album if he was to be released from Don Arden & Jet Records, which Ozzy’s management wanted. Later on after Randy, «Speak Of The Devil» was released as all Sabbath Cuts.

Photo taken January 9th 1982 @ Salt Lake City, Utah. (Paul)