\n\tThat remained true once Ozzy left the group in 1979, and soon began playing solo shows the next year with a long string of lead guitarists. And it remained true for Sabbath in the Eighties when they changed out their singer like most people change their socks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tIt means that quite a few singers and guitarists have tackled \u201cParanoid\u201d over the years. Here\u2019s a look back at 12 renditions of the timeless tale about losing your mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\tBlack Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe original Black Sabbath were at the peak of their powers when they played L\u2019Olympia Bruno Coquatrix in Paris on Dec. 20, 1970, just three months after the Paranoid album dropped, and a professional camera crew captured the magic for all time. This is before oceans of cocaine, booze, and money began slowly ripping the band to pieces. They\u2019d play \u201cParanoid\u201d hundreds and hundreds of times after this night, but it never sounded quite as vital.<\/p>\n
\tBlack Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio<\/p>\n
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\n\tLosing a singer as iconic as Ozzy Osbourne should have been a deathblow to Black Sabbath. But they quickly recruited former Rainbow frontman Ronnie James Dio, cut a spectacular new album, Heaven and Hell, and hit the road. As you can see from this video, Dio brings a very different energy to \u201cParanoid\u201d that\u2019s more theatrical than Ozzy\u2019s approach. But out of all the post-Ozzy singers, there\u2019s no doubt that Dio was the best. And for a few months in 1980, it seemed like they were going to be the victors in the split with Ozzy. And then Blizzard of Ozz dropped.<\/p>\n
\tBlack Sabbath with Ian Gillan<\/p>\n
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\n\tWhen Dio quit Black Sabbath in 1982, the remaining members brought Deep Purple\u2019s Ian Gillan into the fold for the ill-fated Born Again album and tour. The conventional wisdom that their travails during this time, including an oversized Stonehenge stage prop, inspired Spinal Tap simply aren\u2019t true. The movie was well into production when all this happened. But that doesn\u2019t mean this period wasn\u2019t a complete mess for Sabbath. That said, Gillan brought his \u201cHighway Star\u201d banshee wail to \u201cParanoid,\u201d and it worked out pretty well. But it was very short-lived. Deep Purple reformed the foliowing year, and Sabbath were once again in need of a new singer.<\/p>\n
\tBlack Sabbath with Glenn Hughes<\/p>\n
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\n\tIn 1973, Deep Purple hired singer-bassist Glenn Hughes to replace Ian Gillan. And 12 years later, \u201cBlack Sabbath\u201d did the same thing. We put their name in quotes since this was essentially a Tony Iommi solo project that his record label pressured him into calling Black Sabbath. The lone LP from the Hughes era is 1986\u2019s Seventh Star. When they toured, they did plenty of Ozzy-era songs, including, of course, \u201cParanoid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBlack Sabbath with Tony Martin<\/p>\n
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\n\tAfter spending much of the 1980s hiring established singers to front Black Sabbath, only to watch them leave the band within a year or two, Tony Iommi decided to hire Tony Martin, a relative unknown, for 1987\u2019s The Eternal Idol. This was a smart long-term play since Martin remained extremely loyal, and was even willing to return to the band in 1993 after they sacked him for a couple of years in order to briefly reunite with Ronnie James Dio. Martin is a vocal powerhouse, and he gave the oldies his best every single night, but this was Sabbath at their absolute nadir as a creative force. They largely played clubs during his tenure. Still, a vocal minority of Sabbath fans love the Martin era since they released a ton of original music. After he left for the second and last time in 1995, they basically became a heritage band with Ozzy.<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads<\/p>\n
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\n\tOn Sept. 3, 1980, while Black Sabbath were traveling from Hawaii to Florida for a show at the Lakeland Civic Center, a group billed as the Law played a big at the Norbreck Castle Hotel in Blackpool, England. This was the public unveiling of Ozzy\u2019s new solo group Blizzard of Ozz, with ace guitarist Randy Rhoads. Their seven-song set began with new solo tunes like \u201cCrazy Train\u201d and \u201cSuicide Solution,\u201d and wrapped up with a trio of Sabbath classics, including \u201cParanoid.\u201d It was the beginning of a war between Ozzy and his former bandmates that the singer would very quickly win.<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Bernie Torm\u00e9<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe partnership between Ozzy and Rhoads yielded many of the biggest hits of Ozzy\u2019s solo career, and they became incredibly tight friends while recording 1980\u2019s Blizzard of Ozz, 1981\u2019s Diary of a Madman, and touring heavily behind them both. But on March 19, 1982, Rhoads died in a plane crash while attempting to buzz the top of Ozzy\u2019s tour bus. Despite the near-blinding grief Ozzy was suffering, he agreed to keep the tour going just a couple of weeks later. Irish guitarist Bernie Torm\u00e9 was brought onboard to fill the void, but lasted only a matter of weeks. In that brief window of time, they played Madison Square Garden. A shoddy audience tape from that night is the best record of Torm\u00e9\u2019s time in the band.<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Brad Gillis<\/p>\n
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\n\tWhen things didn\u2019t work out with Torm\u00e9, Ozzy brought Night Ranger\u2019s Brad Gillis into the group. He was a better fit than the bluesier Torm\u00e9, but Ozzy was drinking heavily to numb the pain of Rhoads\u2019 sudden death. This sparked many conflicts between himself and Gillis, and the guitarist returned to Night Ranger when the tour wrapped. But during his time with Ozzy, they recorded the quickie live album Speak of the Devil, consisting purely of Black Sabbath covers. This was put together to compete with Sabbath\u2019s own concert LP, Live Evil, and generate publishing royalties. The album remains a polarizing release, but it\u2019s a chance to hear Gillis put his spin on \u201cParanoid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Jake E. Lee\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\tOzzy finally found a stable replacement for Rhoads when he hired Jake E. Lee over Dokken\u2019s George Lynch at the start of the Bark at the Moon sessions. He remained in the mix throughout the Bark at the Moon and The Ultimate Sin album\/tour cycles. They didn\u2019t play many Sabbath songs during this period, partially because their young fans were more familiar with the recent material, but every night closed out with \u201cParanoid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde<\/p>\n
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\n\tZakk Wylde was just 20 years old when he heard that Ozzy needed a new guitarist while listening to him on Howard Stern. Through a connection to photographer Mark Weiss, Wylde landed an audition, and was hired for the No Rest for the Wicked album and tour. It was the start of a three-decade partnership that yielded some of Ozzy\u2019s greatest solo work, including \u201cNo More Tears\u201d and \u201cMama, I\u2019m Coming Home.\u201d When Ozzy played his solo set at Back to the Beginning, Wylde was the guitarist by his side. But there were long gaps in the 1990s and 2000s where Ozzy worked with other lead guitarists.<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Joe Holmes<\/p>\n
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\n\tOzzy launched the No More Tours farewell tour in 1992, but few people were surprised when he kicked off the Retirement Sucks tour just three years later. They were surprised, however, that Wylde wasn\u2019t a part of it. Taking his place was former David Lee Roth and Lizzy Borden guitarist Joe Holmes. He stuck around through the early years of Ozzfest and into the 2000s, but was let go in 2001 to make way for the return of Zakk Wylde.<\/p>\n
\tOzzy Osbourne with Gus G<\/p>\n
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\n\tJust when it seemed like Wylde had the Ozzy job for life, he was dismissed yet again in 2009. This time around, he was replaced by Greek guitarist Konstantinos Karamitroudis, otherwise known as Gus G. He did a stellar job recreating parts originated by Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads, and Zakk Wylde, but few hardcore Ozzy fans embraced him. They mostly yearned for the return of Zakk. And in 2017, that\u2019s exactly what they got when he was hired for a third stint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Ronnie James Dio with Sabbath to Ozzy with Randy Rhoads, every singer and guitarist that ever performed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5873,146,85,46,409,5521],"class_list":["post-500784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-black-sabbath","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-ozzy-osbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}