Ozzy Osbourne: Hit Hita "Crazy Train"
"Crazy Train" - the title single from the debut solo album Hevi Metalist Ozzy Osborne! For the purpose of promotion, the accompanying music clip was released. Osborne and Robert Daisli are considered the authors of the song along with the late guitarist Randy Roads ... Lyrics tell about the cold war and fear before the destruction ...
What did it all start? Backgrounds ...
The story of the "crazy train" began with the fact that Gitarist Greg Leon, who initially occupied the Place of Roads in QUIET Riot, said that he would help Randy to write what was later recognizable Ruff ... His word:
It is noteworthy that William Wiper claimed that he wrote a corporate riff, after which he played his road to the studio during one of the sessions ... Be that as it may, and after the release of Crazy Train, a note appeared in Allmusic:
And where is the name? Let's listen to Ozzy:
Randy Roads was a Ozzy guitarist in this song - he was in QUIET RIOT before he joined Osborne. Like most of the guitar solo, which he recorded from Ozzy, here the Roads had to "double" all his guitarians. This means that he had to play every note of this very complex solo equally, twice. This is one of the reasons why solo on recording sounds so unique ...
Contrary to popular belief, allegedly this is another song of Ozvey about his madness, it is worth noting that in fact "Crazy Train" about the Cold War ... Here are some confirming this fact row:
Success, influence ...
It is no secret that "Crazy Train" is one of the most famous and recognizable songs of Osborne as a solo artist! She is also one of the most famous guitar solo! The track occupies the 9th line in the top 40 of the greatest metal songs. In 2009, Crazy Train was included in the rating of the most rigid rock hits!In America, Crazy Train got into a hot hundred, spending a week in 106th place. The effect of the track is much larger than shown in the charts, since it became one of the corporate songs of Ozzy and helped Albom Blizzard of Ozz in promotion: more than a million copies of the album were sold (and this is only in the United States, over the next two years). Ultimately, Ozvey became the leader of the media in America, where with the help of his wife Sharon, he organized a successful Ozzfest festival and received his own reality show on MTV. Not bad for the British singer Heavy Metal!
Curious cover version!
Subsequently, "Crazy Train" suffered and replayed - Nightwish, Pat Bun, Skid Row and many others. One of the most interesting is the version of Sebastian Bach:
But the most scandalous was the Caver version of the Baptist Church of Westborough: it was performed converted specifically for a rally against homosexuality version, which was not a joking of Osborne!
Popularity in Tick-current!
A new round of fame Metal track gained thanks to a popular service to create and watch short video tick current! It is worth noting that under the original Sound "Crazy Train" there were more than 50 thousand clips! Let's see some of them:@Snubbyj.@higgiwitit.
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The essence of the trend is to visually imitate the playback of the entrance sound with ... Yes, yes! You did not seem! Using the tubes of ordinary wrapping paper! It looks rather unusual and entertaining what is said ....
Interesting Facts…
- It was the first single Ozzy Osborne, released after leaving Black Sabbath in 1978. He left the group after a particularly roast dispute with the guitarist Tony Ayami, when the former comrades in the group described Ozzy as a "lost slacker". As a result, Crazy Train became a triumph for Ozzy, since he proved that he could succeed outside the famous team, albeit with the great help of his team.
- At the end, the voice of the studio engineer speaking the "egg" through the oscillator sounds. Ozzy asked him that he ate for breakfast this morning ...
- In 1999, this was used in Mitsubishi car advertising. In 2012, the track was used in the advertisement of Honda Pilot. Considering the dynamic sound, it does not surprise at all ...
- The instrumental part of this song has become the bit of Track "Let's Go" Trick Daddy Feat. Twista & Lil Jon, who ranked seventh place in the USA in 2004. It was also inserted into the song of the Hollywood Undead "Undead" group in 2008.
- Ozzy Osborne released an animated music video in September 2020 as part of the Celebration of the 40th anniversary of Blizzard of OZZ. The clip shows the prince of darkness and its groups drawn by hand-drawn cartoon images. After the Guitar Solo, Randy Roads, the guitar player swears into the sky, while his comrades in the group are watching him ...
- Former bassist Ozzy Osborne, Bob Daisley, sued the musician and his company Blizzard Music Limited for unpaid fees. The musician accused Osborne in retention of more than 2 million dollars of unpaid fees for the song! Fortunately, Osborne managed to prove his right point ...