Ozzy Osbourne cassette from 1980 found

A cassette was found Ozzy Osbourne call “Ozzie Last Day” recorded during rehearsals in 1980 for what would later become the first solo album of the musician who died in July last year. The 12-minute jam session immortalizes Ozzy together with the guitarist Randy Rhoads and the bass player Bob Daisleybefore recording the album “Blizzard of Ozz”.

As reported by Sky News, the recording was discovered in the attic of David Jollywho had befriended Ozzy after he was fired from Black Sabbath and was putting together his own solo band. Daisley, the only living member, confirmed the authenticity of the tape, saying the recording took place before the trio was joined by the drummer Lee Kerslake.

The 75-year-old said Bob Daisley: “As soon as I heard it, I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s us, that’s Ozzy’s voice.’ I don’t know if we were auditioning a drummer and just chilling out a bit, or if we were just messing around… but it wasn’t a song we were working on because we already had songs defined, we had several.”

Speaking of rediscovered music, last June it was announced that a compilation of demos would be released which
Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward
they had recorded in 1969, when they were still called
Earth
from the title
‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’
. The songs were recorded at
Zella Studios in Birmingham
and the new release would be overseen by
Jim Simpson
the band’s manager at the time.

In the end nothing was published. Ozzy’s widow,
Sharon Osbourne
spoke out against the project in November by publishing a detailed post on social media outlining the legal position of
Black Sabbath
in which he disputed the legal ownership of the recordings.