Ozzy Osbourne/UK 8.1.1980

This work contains the “Port Vale Football Stadium performance on August 1, 1981”. This is an audience album from the performance at the festival “HEAVY METAL HOLOCAUST”. First of all, let’s imagine what the position of this show is like from the whole view of “BLIZZARD OF OZZ TOUR”. “BLIZZARD OF OZZ” released on September 12th. September-November 1980: UK #1 (34 performances) “DIARY OF A MADMAN” completed in March 1981 = Change of rhythm section = April-July 1981: North America #1 (59 performances) August 1, 1981: UK #2 (HM HOLOCAUST) [This work] August-September 1981: North America #2 (34 performances) The above is the schedule of “BLIZZARD OF OZZ TOUR”. The first tour, “UK #1”, was the original BLIZZARD by Bob Daisley & Lee Kerslake, but with the completion of “DIARY OF A MADMAN”, the members changed. They set off for “North America #1” accompanied by Rudy Sarzo & Tommy Aldridge. After that, they toured North America thoroughly, but only one performance returned to their home country. That was this “HEAVY METAL HOLOCAUST”. This work, which contains such a concert, is a definitive recording that was once released by the Langley label. Of course, it is not a copy of the Langley version, but an upgraded version that has been re-digitized from the master cassette and has been carefully repaired and accurately pitch-adjusted. The sound is really great. Of course, it also absorbs plenty of the atmosphere of the scene that is excited by the appearance of a new hero, but the core of the thick musical sound is as robust as a line recording. Moreover, with the clearness of zero reverberation that is unique to outdoor festivals, there is no muffled sound or wraparound at all. On the other hand, outdoors, the sound tends to be blown away by the wind, but perhaps the wind was very weak on this day, and there was no wind. This is a great recording with a good sense of openness, as if the sound was being sucked into the distance. The performance in the home country, depicted with that quality, is the essence of this work. Although he had toured before, there was an atmosphere of waiting to see “that BLACK SABBATH singer”, but in this work, a year has passed since “BLIZZARD OF OZZ”, and the success in the United States is also conveyed. Moreover, a wide range of audiences, not just SABBATH fans, gathered at the festival, and Ozzy, who is in top form and overpowers such British kids, and Randy’s passionate performance showing the brilliance of the “new guitar hero” is fully sealed. Furthermore, the opening exudes a “British feeling” and “sense of the times”. Here, headliner MOTORHEAD’s Lemmy introduces Ozzy. At this time, Lemmy sends “BOMBER” to the charts and is about to create “ACE OF SPADES”. He is the “big brother of kids” who is on the rise right now. After this one-off performance in his home country, Ozzy and Randy returned to the United States and left behind a number of great performances, including the Uniondale performance on the main press CD, the Providence performance on “HOWLLING BLIZZARD”, and the South Fallsburg performance on “MUSIC MOUNTAIN 1981”. For us Japanese who never met Randy Rhoads, even that fact seems like an illusion. However, he certainly shone on the real stage. This work is “one page of a journey” around the world with Randy. Live at Port Vale Football Stadium, Stoke on Trent, UK 1st August 1980 TRULY AMAZING SOUND 1. Introduction by Lemmy 2. I Don’t Know 3. Crazy Train 4. Believer 5. Mr. Crowley 6. Flying High Again 7. Revelation(Mother Earth) 8. Steal Away(The Night) 9. Drum Solo 10. Suicide Solution 11. Guitar Solo/Suicide Solution 12. Iron Man 13. Children Of The Grave 14. Paranoid Ozzy Osbourne – Vocal Randy Rhoads – Guitar Rudy Sarzo – Bass Tommy Aldridge – Drum