| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne will celebrate the 40thanniversary of his 1981 Diary Of A Madman with an updated digital release that includes a new track: a live version of his Mainstream Rock Top Five hit Flying High Again. At the same time comes news of an exciting collaboration with Dogtown, available this Friday. |
| The Ozzy X Dogtown collection comes as an homage to Ozzy’s music being the soundtrack to skateboarding for more than 40 years. The collaboration features skateboard decks and clothing with art by Sean Cliver on 200 limited-edition custom paint “Midnight Fade” skateboard decks with a silver metal flake dusting designed by Jim “Red Dog” Muir, manufactured by Paul Schmitt at PS Stix, and hand silk screened by Chicken at Screaming Squeegees on the iconic 80’s Dogtown Stonefish shape. In addition, look for a limited run of T-shirts and pullover hoodies with the Ozzy X Dogtown graphic to also be released. All items are available this Friday (October 29th) at 12:00 Noon (PT). Click here or here to order or for more information. |
The Diary Of A Madman special digital re-issue will be available November 5th through all digital platforms. The album is Ozzy’s second studio release and the last album to feature 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Famer guitarist Randy Rhoads. The multi-platinum release (with five million albums sold worldwide) included the number two mainstream Rock track, Flying High Again.
| The Diary Of A Madman 40th Anniversary Expanded Digital Edition track list is as follows: 1. Over the Mountain 2. Flying High Again 3. You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll 4. Believer 5. Little Dolls 6. Tonight 7. S.A.T.O. 8. Diary of a Madman 9. Believer (live)* 10. Flying High Again (live)* *previously unavailable digitally |
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Thank you Rattlehead! That’s sweet you have those, great guitars, great era! I used to have some. Wish I still did. Now I just have an ‘85 SD body with a later neck, but those original necks were the best.
That’s all they are doing for this 40th-anniversary re-release of this landmark album? I thought they would have done something along the lines of what KISS is doing for the Destroyer 45th release this month, I mean this is such a huge part of my teenage years and just to put out a digital release with two live songs on it, chances are they have been heard before, the video for Over The Mountain was on the 30 years after the blizzard DVD. With things, the way they are now fans expects to get something for their money especially when its a re-release of an album and especially this one. To me, this one is better than blizzard and I listen to it all the time still but if you are trying to get fans to put out their hard-earned money then put out something that’s gonna be worth it and not just two live tracks on a digital release.