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Mark SavageMusic correspondent<\/p>\n
Five essential Ozzy Osbourne tracks for your playlistpublished at 02:00 British Summer Time<\/p>\n
02:00 BST<\/p>\n
Mark Savage
Music correspondent<\/p>\n
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As a solo artist and as part of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne sold more than 100 million records worldwide – so it’s almost impossible to distil their catalogue into a digestible list. But here are five songs that should be on everyone’s playlists.<\/p>\n
1) Paranoid <\/p>\n
Written as a last-minute “filler” for Black Sabbath’s second album, the group accidentally created their biggest hit: The story of a man battling his inner voices, set to one of rock’s most powerful riffs. <\/p>\n
“Every now and then you get a song from nowhere,” said Osbourne. “It\u2019s a gift.”<\/p>\n
2) Crazy Train<\/p>\n
The song that launched Osbourne’s solo career, it’s almost atypically upbeat – shrugging off Cold War paranoia and declaring: “Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love.” It’s only the maniacal laughter in the fading bars that suggests this outlook is the purview of a madman.<\/p>\n
3) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath<\/p>\n
Black Sabbath’s reputation for darkness often overshadowed their melodic capabilities – but Osbourne was a passionate fan of the Beatles. You can hear their influence on the pastoral chorus of this song, before Tony Iommi powers in with a growling guitar line. John Lennon would undoubtedly have approved of Osbourne’s seething critique of the music industry, summed up in the line: “Bog blast all of you\u201d.<\/p>\n
4) Changes<\/p>\n
Sabbath revealed their soft underbelly on this 1972 piano ballad, written about a break-up that drummer Bill Ward was experiencing. “I thought the song was brilliant from the moment we first recorded it,” said Osbourne, who later re-recorded it as a duet with his daughter, Kelly, and scored a UK number one.<\/p>\n
5) Mr Crowley<\/p>\n
Inspired by notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, this track from 1980’s Blizzard of Ozz allowed Osbourne to play up to his mock-satanic image. But is also helped him escape from the shadow of Black Sabbath, with a swirling, heavy-psychedelic sound, capped off by a blistering solo from his new foil, guitar virtuoso Randy Rhoads.<\/p>\n
Further listening: War Pigs and Iron Man are all-time classics; while Diary of a Madman and Suicide Solution are crucial chapters in Osbourne’s solo songbook. Also check out Patient Number 9, the title track of his final album, which ended his career on a high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five essential Ozzy Osbourne tracks for your playlistpublished at 02:00 British Summer Time 02:00 BST Mark SavageMusic correspondent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-17157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}