Classic Rock Issue 305 (September 2022) Black Sabbath

Classic Rock Issue 305 (September 2022) Black Sabbath Ozzy Osbourne. What an absolute legend. And on September 9 he releases a brand-new solo album. His timing is impeccable, as the month also marks the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath’s stone-cold classic Vol 4 album – the very record that we were already planning to celebrate this issue. When our writer spoke to Ozzy about his star-studded new record, we asked him to ask the Prince Of Darkness what he remembers about the making of Vol 4 from the distance of half a century. “A lot of cocaine!” Ozzy said, laughing. “We lived together in a house in Los Angeles, rehearsed there, did loads of drugs and made an album: simple. Those were good times.” More like crazy, chaotic, utterly unbelievable, snowblind times, and Mick Wall tells the frankly bonkers story of its making in our new issue. It’s the kind of rock’n’roll tale that you just don’t hear about from bands these days. Probably very wisely. But in Sabbath’s case it all worked out f