46 years ago today, Blizzard of Ozz, the debut solo album of the great and lately deceased metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, was released to moderate reviews and success. However it grew to become a staple of the genre, and was ranked as the ninth-greatest heavy metal album of all time by Rolling Stone. It includes the iconic singles "Mr. Crowley" and "Crazy Train," both of which were sung by the great man in 2025 during his farewell tour, a week before his death at the age of 76 from Parkinson's disease. READ more about the album... (1980)
