Ozzy Osbourne spoke to host Matt Pinfield about the third track off the LP,“Goodbye To Romance”, song that is about the time Ozzy was fired from Black Sabbath.
He said:
“That was the first song we [Ozzy, guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Bob Daisley] wrote. It was a song I wrote about maybe we’ll meet in the end, which I’m glad we did at the end.
“[The Sabbath guys are] never that far away from my thoughts, whether I like them today or not. Since I’ve been laid up these last 18 months, [Sabbath guitarist] Tony Iommi has been such a support for me — so supportive.
”I’ve been closer to him in the last 18 months than I ever have been. We never got on for years. But whatever he did before and whatever I did before…
“When you’re laid up, you find out who your real friends are. And I’ll tell you what — Jonathan [Davis] from Korn, I barely knew him from the Ozzfests, he’s been so supportive.
“It’s so important that when you’re laid up, somebody cares enough to give you a thought. That’s all you need — a phone call or a text. It means the world.”