The song by Ozzy Osbourne preferred by Ozzy Osbourne
Although his story has always been a forger of more or less extreme, more or less real anecdotes is undoubted The importance that Ozzy had in the history of rockthanks to his works, both soloists and with Black Sabbath. During his existence, the musician, who disappeared at 76 years of age, has embodied so well and in such a blatant way the unrelativeness of life as Rockstar that his image has never stopped attracting attention, curiosity and affection. Surgeting his disparate vicissitudes and courageous fighter against Parkinson’s until the end, as demonstrated at the last concert on 5 July, the artist has always remained devoted to music and his mission. So much to reiterate several times that he has never been intent on retiring until his end: “Do you know when I will retire? When I feel that they are putting the nails to my coffin. And then I will make a fuck of encore. I am the prince of darkness,” he said in 2020.
To crown Ozzy Osbourne’s career, before the final event “Back to the Beginning”, was his induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist For class 2024 Indicate their favorite songs of the “Prince of Darkness”. Artists were attended by artists such as, among others, Rob Trujillo dei Metallica, Tom Morello dei Rage Against The Machine, as well as Slayer, Halestorm, Killswitch Engage and Green Lung components.
The question was also addressed to Ozzy himself, who therefore had to Choose his favorite song from his repertoirewhich includes both classic with his historic band such as “Paranoid”, “War Pigs” and “Iron Man”, who known solo songs, including “Crazy Train”, “Bark at the Moon” or “Shot in the Dark”.
Osbourne’s choice falls on one ballad taken from an album that, released in September of 1991just a week before “Snowmind“Of the Nirvana, in which the grunge was taking over in the rock panorama, he managed to resist the changes of that new scene. The disc is”No More Tears“And the song, which shows off the most introspective side of Ozzy, is”Mama, I’m coming home“.
“I have a real weak for ‘Mama, I’m coming home’,” explained Ozzy Osbourne: “I didn’t write the text, Lemmy Kilmister wrote it, but I told him exactly what I wanted to say. But I will reveal one thing to you: I don’t have a favorite song ever. People always ask me what my favorite album is, I don’t have one! They are disks of fun, chaos or moments in which I was sick. Each of my album is a reflection of me, at a precise moment“.
To underline even more the link with “Mama, I’m coming home”, was the choice of Ozzy to include the song in his final set of five songs at the event “Back to the Beginning”. The execution of the piece was one of the most exciting moments of the musician’s farewell concertfollowed by that of the classical formation of the Black Sabbath he formed with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward.
In an interview for “Classic Rock” of 2013, about the song written for Ozzy, Lemmy, who disappeared in 2015, had said: “Ozzy sent me a ribbon with a song for which he wanted a text. I think he gave me only the title. I am good in this way, because this is how I write the songs: I invent a title and then I write the song around. Interviews together with this festival and a guy asked him: ‘The song Mama, I’m coming home is the most personal thing you ever wrote.
In addition to “Mama, I’m coming home”, the album “No More Tears” includes an atro song written in collaboration with the Motörhead frontman, “Hellraiser“, of which in 2021 a version with both Ozzy and Lemmy’s item was published.
