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Black vinyl with poster

When Ozzy Osbournes first solo album Blizzard Of Oz album sold better than expected it tear the group apart and when the US tour kicked off at the Towson Center in Maryland on April 22, it was with a new band: Randy, Tommy Aldridge, keyboard player Don Airey, and Cuban bassist Rudy Sarzo, another ex-member of Quiet Riot. One month later, Blizzard Of Ozz entered the US chart. It would peak at No.21. The support act on this tour was Motörhead, whose leader, Lemmy, had an appetite for drink and drugs to match even Ozzy’s. After one particularly heavy night on what Ozzy refers to as “the chemistry set”, he and Lemmy met the following morning and were shocked at the sight of each other. “I’d been doing cocaine and booze all night,” Ozzy recalls. “I felt like somebody had scraped me off a gorilla’s arsehole. And there was Lemmy, sheet-white, looking like he’s just come out of a fucking silent horror film. And he looks at me and says: ‘Fucking hell, I hope I don’t look as bad as you!’. If Lemmy Kilmister’s saying that to me, I must be fucking bad.” Even bass player Rudy Sarzo remembers the tour, Nothing prepared me for Motorhead, he said. For about a week, I couldn’t tell who was the crew and who was the musicians. They all wore the same patches and jean jacket. Lemmy was the most well-read individual I’ve ever met. He would get off the bus to wash up, and he would have a small bag of books — paperbacks sticking out — and a bottle of vodka… It was kind of like hanging out with pirates. This album was recorded during that “drinking pirates” tour at the Palladium in Nwe York on the 2nd of May 1981.

Track list:
1. Intro
2. Ace Of Spades
3. Stay Clean
4. Over The Top
5. The Hammer
6. Leaving Here
7. Jailbait
8. Capricorn
9. Bite The Bullet
10. The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
11. Overkill
12. Metropolis