Ozzy had never heard of the rapper but agreed anyway, and they cut the morose, poppy, and overwhelmingly Ozzy-sounding “Take What You Want.” When the track’s producer, Andrew Watt, asked Ozzy if he’d want to put together some more tracks - he said they could make an album quickly - Ozzy said yes, and they got to work on Ordinary Man, due out February 21st.
Eventually, his daughter Kelly threw him a life preserver to lift his spirits, asking him if he’d want to duet with Post Malone on a new song. He had planned to be on the road for his final big world tour for much of it, but after a bad fall in the middle of the night sent him to the ER, he had to postpone all gigs and lie in bed in agony for months and months. “Take What You Want,” with Post Malone (2019)Ĭlearly, 2019 was not Ozzy Osbourne’s year.
Despite the star power, and the heat of No More Tears, March ör Die was a flop it was Motörhead’s last major-label record for years.
Kilmister penned lyrics for four tracks on Ozzy’s quadruple-platinum 1991 album No More Tears, including the Grammy-winning “Mama, I’m Coming Home.” A year later, the pals teamed up again to trade verses on an outlaw-country (!) duet on Motörhead’s 1992 album, March ör Die, “I Ain’t No Nice Guy.” The song begins with Kilmister’s hilariously deadpanned line, “When I was young, I was the nicest guy I knew,” and evolves into a heartfelt reflection, as Ozzy realizes, “I ain’t no nice guy after all,” over acoustic guitar, piano, and - eventually, once the song gets rocking - a Slash solo. Then Motörhead toured with Ozzy on his first solo run, the pair started sharing World War II memorabilia, and they eventually started writing songs together. Ozzy and Lemmy Kilmister had a long-running bromance going back to the time before Motörhead, when Hawkwind, the pioneering space-rock combo that featured Lemmy as a bassist, shared a practice space with Black Sabbath. “I Ain’t No Nice Guy,” with Motörhead (1992) You can have the song.'” He’d go on to fully embrace the track, and the video - featuring Ford and Osbourne sporting unintentionally identical hairstyles - would become an MTV staple and showcase the Prince of Darkness’s softer side to a wider audience. “‘You know what Lita? You can have it,’” Ozzy recalled telling Ford in an interview with Esquire. “Close My Eyes Forever,” co-written and sung with Lita Ford (who was managed by Ozzy’s wife Sharon at the time), would end up on Ford’s third solo album Lita. Ozzy was messing around in the studio in 1988 when he half-wrote a song that would become one of his most enduring power ballads. “Close My Eyes Forever,” with Lita Ford (1988)
Here are five times he traded lyrics with other singers, from Motörhead’s Lemmy to none other than Miss Piggy. His new single - the nostalgic, bittersweet, Elton John–featuring title track off his upcoming solo LP, Ordinary Man - is the latest in a long line of tender ballads from the Beatles-worshipping singer, stretching all the way back to Black Sabbath torch songs like “Changes.” And while it might seem odd to hear the Prince of Darkness sharing mic time with the Rocket Man, he’s also proved himself to be a die-hard devotee of that classic pop format: the duet. Ozzy Osbourne will always be the quintessential heavy-metal maniac, but at heart, he’s an old-school song man.