Ozzy Osbourne was 'jealous' of his replacement after he was kicked out of Black Sabbath

In the late 1970s the foundations of Black Sabbath were slowly coming undone. Singer Ozzy Osbourne reportedly had continued conflicts with the band’s lead guitarist Tony Iommi. In 1979 it all came to a head, prompting Iommi to insist Ozzy was kicked out of the band on April 27. This prompted Ozzy to kickstart his own solo work, producing his first album, Blizzard of Ozz, the following year.

Black Sabbath didn’t stop there, however. They instantly went on a search for the next singer of the band.

Eventually, they hired the former lead singer of Rainbow: Ronnie James Dio.

Dio’s work with Black Sabbath became instantly successful, marking the next step of the band.

The band’s success was something Ozzy was ultimately quite jealous of.

Ozzy’s bassist, Bob Daisley, recently revealed: “Ozzy was worried about that. I know he was concerned.” (Via Rolling Stone)

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Bob continued: “It did whack him in the gut a bit that the new Black Sabbath with Dio did so well.”

Although it seems Ozzy was a little concerned about being overshadowed by Dio at the time, the singer himself was not trying to compare himself to the legendary Black Sabbath singer.

Dio famously said: “I was not, and never will be, Ozzy Osbourne.”

Bob continued: “We didn’t go in [saying]: ‘What would be a good single? What will be a hit single? How can we make this album a commercial hit album?’ We didn’t do any of that. It was just: ‘Go in. Play how you play. Work together. See what you do. See if people like it.’

“I think the honesty of that, the authenticity of what we really were, comes out in the music, the joy in it, the belief in it. We weren’t pretentious in any way.”

“It was just – go in, do what you do, and do it as good as you can, and we did. I think that holds up in the record of how it turned out.”

This method of creating music resulted in Bob and Ozzy writing the latter’s first solo record, Blizzard of Ozz.

During the recording process, however, Ozzy made a mistake that remains on the song to this day.

Bob recalled: “So, we’re doing Crazy Train and all of a sudden, we’re doing the first line, so I’m playing the intro, the beginning of the intro, the whole riff, and [Ozzy] goes ‘Oi!’ He goes: ‘I’m kind of laughing, leave it on there,’ because you can keep everything, basically.”

The moment Bob is referring to is a shout in the first few seconds of the song, something Ozzy kept for the final recording.

“So I leave it on there and he sings the first line, and he said: ‘How was it?’ I said: ‘Good, Ozzy, now double it.’ So coming from the beginning of the song again, and he hears this ‘Oi,’ and he goes ‘Oi’ after it, so we start laughing, and then we decide to put one more on there.”

Bob added: “So he goes: ‘Oi, oi, oi,’ so it was a mistake, actually. He was supposed to double the ‘Oi,’ but he didn’t, and then we added another one to make it not seem like a mistake.”

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