During a conversation with Kerrang Magazine, Ozzy Osbourne compared working with Tony Iommi & Randy Rhoads.
He said:
“Randy Rhoads came along and it was a match made in f*c*ing heaven. Randy was phenomenal, a great guy and a wonderful musician and he really helped me as a singer.”
Focusing on the creative process, Osbourne said:
“He’d hear me humming a melody around the house and go, ‘Is that yours?’ and we’d work together to build a song out of it.
He further expressed how he wasn’t ‘always’ comfortable working with Tony, saying:
“With Sabbath, it worked the other way. Tony would come up with an amazing riff and I had to put a vocal on top of it, which wasn’t always comfortable for me because I had to bend to what the band wanted.”
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I believe the opposite is true. The early days with Sabbath were by far his best. His solo stuff doesn’t compare to the first few Sabbath albums. Imo.
His solo stuff is great, too. I love Ozzy, but he’s wrong. Sabbath was the high-point, I agree. A band is all about collaboration. Randy wasn’t into Black Sabbath. He respected it, but it wasn’t his thing. That’s how the whole Blizzard of Ozz thing was able to take off, with Randy and Bob making the new music happen. Otherwise, I think Ozzy would have been happy to just do covers of Sabbath material if he could.
I think working with Randy gave Oz great joy in the creative process, whereas with Sabbath, it was more of a process.