Legendary Rock Songs: MR. CROWLEY: OZZY OSBOURNE.
Hello my people I hope you are all super well, today my people I bring you this report on one of the greatest voices of rock Mr. Ozzy, I hope you like all those who are passionate about rock music.
Theme: MR. CROWLEY.
Disc: Blizzard Of Ozz.
Year: 1980.
Our beloved Ozzy flirting again with the dark side. His time with Black Sabbath did not quench the hunger of the deranged vocalist for the world of occultism and darkness, even though the English band is one of the great examples of the rock universe in relation to Satanism and other enigmatic arts.
When Ozzy left the fathers of metal, he continued down that same dangerous path. His pose for the cover of his solo debut was already a symptom of both his madness and his obscurantist attraction; wrapped in a cape in the purest Dracula style and raising a black cross above his head.
“Mr. Crowley” was his personal tribute to his admired Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), an English pioneer in the practice of black magic who called himself ‘The Great Beast’, an appellative with which the devil is referred to in the Bible, and whose mission in the world was said to be the destruction of Christianity and the imposition of a religion based on the cult of Beelzebub.
Crowley studied the figure and presence of the devil in different cultures and claimed to have had direct contact with the devil. Starting from such a character, Ozzy wrote the text of “Mr. Crowley”, in which he directly addressed the dark magician and his “nocturnal understanding”, asking him if he had talked to death and asking him to know what he was referring to in his studies and writings, although with a certain critical tone towards his methods in certain moments.
It is even funny that a guy as mentally unstable as Ozzy had that fictitious conversation (if there was not a direct spectral encounter with Crowley, you never know...) with another misunderstood madman as was the Satanist and began to sing him that of “Mr. Crowley, What was going on in your head?”, a question that many have been asked with respect to Mr. Osbourne himself.
The fact is that the result was a fantastic piece of rock, overwhelming and intense like few others. An almost sepulchral organ marks the ghostly and gloomy beginning until the ill-fated Randy Rhoads (what a final solo!) and the rhythmic base of Lee Kerslake (drums) and Bod Daisley (bass) print the heavy metal force to the well-known theme.
Curiously, the Madman eliminated the drum and bass tracks from the original recording in the re-release of “Blizzard of Ozz” and the other two works in which these musicians participated, “Diary of a madman” and “Bark at the moon”, carried out in 2002, being replaced by new ones re-recorded for the occasion by the then rhythm base of his band, drummer Mike Bordin and now Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo.
The decision, much discussed by many of his fans who saw the act as nothing less than a sacrilege of the works, was taken as a result of a legal dispute between him and Kerslake and Daisley for alleged non-payment of royalties. Let's hope that from his grave Aleister Crowley is not offended by the exhumation of “his” song and does not vent his anger on good old Ozzy... or would the Madman's recent serious accident be a revenge?
Friends I hope alla been to your liking this editorial on the subject of this singer, one of the greatest voices of rock and especially the theme which is a tribute quen ozzy makes this iconic character in the history of occultism. For all a thousand blessings and see you in a next post with more legendary songs of rock music.
