Ozzy Osbourne not too long ago marveled on the pace at which his new album, Patient Number 9, got here to fruition, and recalled telling producer and guitarist Andrew Watt he had a “funny feeling” about his thirteenth solo LP.
“I remember when we were doing Patient Number 9, I said to Andrew, I said, ‘I’ve got a funny feeling about this album,'” the Prince of Darkness advised Billboard in a new interview. He likened it to the feeling he felt upon finishing his 1991 smash No More Tears: “When I did No More Tears, I knew at the end of the album we had a good album.
“But this album got here so shortly,” Osbourne continued. “We had it combined 5 occasions. It was a lot of enjoyable, like all the pieces else. But I put a lot of emotion into this album.”
Patient Number 9 options a assassin’s row of rock stars, together with Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Tony Iommi, Zakk Wylde, Chad Smith and the late Taylor Hawkins. Osbourne stated he “really love[s] the Eric Clapton one, and I really love ‘Patient Number 9,'” although he did not anticipate to land the high-profile visitors.
“When Andrew says to me, ‘I wonder, do you think we should put anyone like Jeff Beck or Eric Clapton?’ I said, ‘Ah, they wouldn’t want to play on an Ozzy album,'” Osbourne defined (not for the primary time). “I was absolutely floored when they agreed. And what they played was just mind-blowing.”
Patient Number 9 collected 4 Grammy nominations: Best Rock Album, Best Metal Performance for “Degradation Rules” and Best Rock Performance and Song for the title monitor. “The whole thing shocked me,” Osbourne stated of the nods. “I mean, if I won anything for the album, I’ll be floored. That’s what I like about the business. It’s never short of — I love surprises.”
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