Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album)

Tribute
Live album by Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads
Released	19 March 1987
Recorded	1980/1981
Genre	Heavy metal, hard rock[1]
Length	70:28
Label	Epic CBS
Producer	Max Norman,[2] Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne chronology
The Ultimate Sin (1986) Tribute (1987) No Rest for the Wicked (1988)
Singles from Tribute
"Crazy Train (live)" Released: 1987

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Martin Popoff	[3]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)[4]

Tribute is a live album by heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, featuring his work with hard rock guitarist Randy Rhoads, in whose honor the album was released.^[1] The album was released on 19 March 1987, five years after the death of Rhoads, then it was reissued on 22 August 1995, and again remastered and reissued in 2002. It peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard 200 chart.^[5]

Overview

The album was released in memory of Rhoads, guitarist for Osbourne's band between 1979 and 1982 who died in a plane crash while on tour in Florida in 1982. The album also includes studio outtakes of Rhoads recording the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece "Dee", which Rhoads wrote for his mother Delores and which was originally included on Osbourne's debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz.

The majority of the album from "I Don't Know" through to "Paranoid" was recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio on 11 May 1981,^[6] with the exception of an extended guitar solo in the song "Suicide Solution" which was recorded in Montreal on 28 July 1981, and inserted into the song. Osbourne stated upon the album's release in 1987 that the entire album had been recorded "somewhere in Canada", though he may have been confusing it with that Montreal recording from which the guitar solo was taken. "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies" are taken from an early tour in support of the Blizzard of Ozz album, possibly from Southampton on 2 October 1980. These two tracks feature bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake.

The album was originally to be released in 1982, but was shelved indefinitely upon Rhoads' death early that year. Instead, another live album, Speak of the Devil, was recorded and released later that same year, consisting entirely of Black Sabbath songs and featuring future Night Ranger guitarist Brad Gillis.

The recording of "Crazy Train" that appears on this album was also released as the album's only single on 10 February 1987, along with an accompanying music video. The album's cover photo was taken at a performance in Rosemont, Illinois on 24 January 1982, by photographer Paul Natkin.

The operatic music which opens Tribute, as well as all of Osbourne's live shows of that era, is "O Fortuna" from the Carmina Burana 'scenic cantata' by Carl Orff. This introduction is omitted from the 1995 remaster ("I Don't Know" is shortened to 4:43). Ozzy's voice in this album is doubled tracked.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley, except where indicated..

Side one
No.	Title	Originally from	Length
1.	"I Don't Know"	Blizzard of Ozz (1980)	5:40
2.	"Crazy Train"	Blizzard of Ozz	5:19
3.	"Believer"	Diary of a Madman (1981)	5:08
4.	"Mr. Crowley"	Blizzard of Ozz	5:37

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
5.	"Flying High Again"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake	Diary of a Madman	4:17
6.	"Revelation (Mother Earth)"		Blizzard of Ozz	5:58
7.	"Steal Away (The Night)" (with drum solo)		Blizzard of Ozz	8:04

Side three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
1.	"Suicide Solution" (with guitar solo)		Blizzard of Ozz	7:46
2.	"Iron Man"	Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward	Paranoid (1970)	2:50
3.	"Children of the Grave"	Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward	Master of Reality (1971)	5:57
4.	"Paranoid"	Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward	Paranoid	2:59

Side four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Originally from	Length
5.	"Goodbye to Romance"		Blizzard of Ozz	5:33
6.	"No Bone Movies"	Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake	Blizzard of Ozz	4:02
7.	"Dee" (Randy Rhoads studio out-takes)	Rhoads	Blizzard of Ozz	4:22

Personnel

• Ozzy Osbourne - vocals, executive producer
• Randy Rhoads - guitar
• Rudy Sarzo - bass
• Tommy Aldridge - drums
• Lindsay Bridgwater - keyboards
• Bob Daisley - bass on "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies"
• Lee Kerslake - drums on "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies"

Production

• Max Norman - producer, engineer
• Brian Lee and Bob Ludwig - 1995 remastering
• Bruce Dickinson - 2002 edition executive producer
• Chris Athens - 2002 remastering

Charts

Album Year Chart Position 1987 Billboard 200 (USA)[5] 6 UK Albums Chart[7] 13 Swedish Albums Chart[8] 17 RPM100 Albums (Canada)[9] 17 New Zealand Albums Chart[10] 36 German Albums Chart[11] 41

Singles Year Single Chart Position 1987 "Crazy Train" UK Singles Chart[7] 99

Certifications

Country	Organization	Year	Sales
USA	RIAA	1997	2x Platinum (+ 2,000,000)[12]
Canada	CRIA	1989	Gold (+ 50,000)[13]

References

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2. "Max Norman Interview". Music Legends. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
3. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
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5. "Tribute Billboard Albums". All Music. All Media Network. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
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10. "Ozzy Osbourne – Randy Rhoads Tribute (Album)". Charts.org.nz. Media Control Charts. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
11. "Album – Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads Tribute". Charts.de (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
12. "RIAA Searchable Database-Search: Ozzy Osbourne". Retrieved 22 January 2012.
13. "Gold Platinum Search for Ozzy Osbourne". Music Canada. Retrieved 25 October 2015.