Ozzy Osbourne: ‘Ordinary Man,’ Working with Post Malone and Elton John | Apple Music

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[Music] [Music] Wow so you join us in the room right here in the basement legendary what we call this is this the what cave what is this cave this is what HQ this is where all kinds of music has been made all kinds of tones and different fields and vibes hits records

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that have moved to Seoul moved the charts but they've never moved my ears and the walls the way that that just did well I'm used to having loud music but this guy congratulations on the two of you coming together to make what is undoubtedly you know a masterpiece

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modern hard rock heavy metal record you know it's thinking this morning how I don't have a car I'm a very old starting through the post song we did that and then one thing led to another yeah in about a month we didn't fight son yeah it was it was I don't remember

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the whole process as something must have really gotten your attention Ozzie for you don't want to go beyond working with post and watt on that song I was like oh I'm the best thing to do is what I do from what I do you know so long Kelley said she what I say on these

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guys post below no I didn't know show some love been doing it 50 I don't rush out and buy their life itself Jan and you and your taste in music as well you like what you love what you love you've been living with the same Rick wasn't the same all this old stuff like you say

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I did the post for long thing was I said one thing led to another and before I where we'd done an album yeah one of the most enjoyable processes is it crazy when you when you walk into a room and and you spend time with someone like what and he plays you a backing track

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which is so directly inspired by the music that you've made so he's literally trying to dial in to your sound and you'll feel to inspire you how does it feel when someone plays something back to you like I mean I don't suppose so much something of myself as a singer

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called writer so much a receiver I don't know where he comes from we just yeah I mean I was such a after one time you imagine how many people are in the world than you already made a certain amount of people in your life I mean three months ago or four months ago I

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mean oh we didn't even know I should never do this quite a load today you know when you're sitting there in in there in the rainbow with posts and you're recognizing that this is a another child of ossie post as a child of Ozzie you're a child of Ozzy and

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you've got this opportunity to put this whole thing together which you know you've done before and tried to do before how do you take that beyond I'm just I da ting crazy here but I can actually deliver on this thing people always say I'm crazy I just you know you

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say crazy things out loud like I wonder if there's a universe where a post Malone and Ozzy Osbourne song can exist and then you try and the worst thing that happens is it doesn't happen but you know you know if you don't try it will never hold a lot of artists don't I

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just get scared because it's an insecure place to put yourself no no I when I done did this album I'm gonna check it out cuz I have a formulary stock first pre-chorus cause I read somewhere he teaches a different boy than what I do so Cosa Troy oh yeah go if you sleep it

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turns out abolish and I'm gonna get and is it like literally how you tell people when it you're not feeling something well I always got a problem with these dog saying trust you someone you don't know yeah with what you go on every hour I have to write every song on the album

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but you can't always have it your way you got a give-and-take you know I mean I give any chase he's never gonna go yeah I wrote 15 songs and I loved every single one you can only out as much as you're like I'm gonna I'll be in this situation where you've been in the

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writing facility for months he nothing out there all of a sudden I don't know where bang you Lance three songs come from nowhere you go why did it take so long always amazed how quickly all kinds of it well it came quickly for you to write so let's just get to the phone call so

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the post Malone collaboration happens and then you get the phone call sir he said I would love to make an album with you okay stop I need to stop because that's the moment that's the most important my know so I hear this from him I'm a half okay I'm like how am I gonna do this

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I such there's so much history and your music there's so much I'm been doing in 50 years so what the only thing you don't know what to do but I don't even know if you remember this part so I get that call and then I'm thinking about I'm like I would love to

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you know it's like and Chad from the Chili Peppers is one of my best friends and that one of these really close friends and he was my first phone call after oz he said that he played drums on King and I was like Ozzy wants us to make an album and he was like one

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why don't we doing it I was like wow okay he really wants to do it and we need a bass player so I called Duff up from Guns N'Roses we had all just played at this like benefit concert together Mike McCready from Pearl Jam was doing and Duff was like white wine white wine

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same thing same enthusiasm so I didn't tell anyone we just got together no one's you know talking about deals or an album we just were like let's see what happens when the three of us sit in this room yeah and make some music and in four days we played for probably six to

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eight hours a day in four days we made the entire album crazy the music for the whole 12 structured as we hear pretty much with the exception of a little bit right I mean you're making music then you put you know all the basics and then we start Ozzy and I got together and

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analogies like know that section should be there we rearrange stuff but the music was performance based and it stayed like that which is why it sounds so cool are you trying to get out of that experience how are you trying to get to a place where you were comfortable playing this for Ozzy give

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them not in the room so I finished what I think is like a good bulk of music that I'm excited to play for him to see if he likes it and if not then I'm like I just got to play whichever secretly you're like it would've been crazy Chris Paul of course but I'm saying that to

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myself to prepare myself so I playing in the music for the first time Chad is with me and I'm very excited when I listen to music I can't help myself up standing up somebody air-drumming sitting there looking at me and he listens to the next one he goes it's

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like this and he goes it's cool and that's it I'm like boy I like did he like it did he not like it I'm like a little crust I'm like oh my god he hated it he's just like sat and listened little thing and he goes it's cool I don't even know what to think it was

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like he was here and then I know check in and I blow it he was gone yeah and so the next day he calls me and he's like okay so when are we starting writing and I was like oh on which song which which one did you like he's like well we have to write them all don't we and I was

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like what happens between it's cool and again a couple won't close to me you couldn't be nice it serve you well you really just putting the wind up in a little bit did you know I mean if you give you cite yeah when you when you do an album if there's anything on the

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album that you need thing needs to be changed you better challenge before it's released it's too late there's so many hours of it up over my over the years I've got why did not she pokes me in the over lunch you live with it forever we treated every track like it was a and the one

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thing oh I've never done this before every sack track is not over-the-top commercial radio place and it's working I mean we're already seeing there right number one what really strikes me about this album is is just the spirit in which everybody came together Chad had

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to bring it Duff had to bring it like your best so you know since you are about in your life you only reach certainly yeah oddly it was fate that brought us together in my life it would all the people in the world I've only met a certain amount of people yeah what we're

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a bunch of them I made good and do you feel it was fate that brought you and Randy together what you absolutely randy rhoads walking around with the first I'm a man awesome if you this one didn't sound way it's always self so you look but what I heard him

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very lucky in my career but also my wife has been such a great mom what just tells me is easier you wanna sit on your arse feeling sorry for yourself for the rest you you know I will get off your ass and do something I mean if he wasn't a Sheeran ordering long yet it does feel like every one of

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these really crucial collaborators these people who come into your life come into your life at a moment when it's daddle the other thing we're not that far from Black Sabbath a guy called diners from ABC book villains around me and then whatever he got killed

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damn it Jackie Lee was a great guitar player still a sec well I like Bernie's for me after rounding up he just recently died already got me back on stage and the guy just came along you know orbital that people like get shopping from UFO limousines Italy Jets

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and all that's yeah yeah yeah it's not the spirit of what you got the wrong guy I'm not wasn't it was there a moment you talk about fate meeting what and was there a moment in the last 12 months 18 months where you needed someone like what to come along if it had been

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anybody else I would be still here sitting this guy Okotoks oh we use we just didn't you know I think any done the backing tracks okay I mean I put my vocal on it and with him he sounds so dialed in electrifying on this record I mean we don't do this for a job this is

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a passion you know when you make a go you me as someone that you're attracted to you go through this thing but you in you know instantly if you want to see this person again it's a one man and rathore easy somewhat job what but when you get stopped music of that caliber it

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hits you that harder than you find the world if something comes to comes to me super quick all right yeah that one a minute am I getting a runner am i signage because I'm feeling sorry for myself yeah I don't want to do some music but then I take it on the Rochon goes to

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shooters right now yes carry on get up to my Goggins so she was he gets really excited when she hears something of that nature oh I mean anybody could have to play to other people people in my house you know my people that work for me anything and I go sharing your biggest fan

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she's she's my biggest fan but she also tells me the truth and she goes you know this yeah we have the greatest relationship I'm not cry I'm not the imperfect man I mean with an ad that's amazing 38 years is incredible 40 years I'm moving this way down but

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you know I'm not that much of an ass no but I have my moments tell me about the ballad we're gonna listen to it's a person we wrote yes this is a great story behind it it's a song called ordinary man which is the name of the album and you know as I was making this

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backing tracks for Ozzy he's a melody man I mean you hear it in those Sabbath songs they're so heavy but what makes him so cool is the simple melodies on top of them you know and he's he's tapped into something uncredible so you know and I found out how much he loves

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the Beatles his biggest Beatles fan in the world is sitting right next to me and so I tried to make something that evokes that emotion those chords you know that taken from from that school I was thinking about what it should should be about we got together and we wrote

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some melodies and then I was you know thinking of concepts for for myself and knowing everything that he was going through I thought of this thing you know I don't want to die an ordinary man meaning you know I've lived this crazy experience this all of you know his

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amazing history and I was like alright I'm just gonna leave it there cuz I I want to do too much just that line fits this melody and that's cool so he comes in the next day and he goes Andrew I want to show you something I wrote some lyrics last night

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and he hands me a lyric sheet over there I'll try and find it for you after and yeah keep that safe I swear on my life I'm not kidding and he will attest to this Paul my engineer will test this he hands me a lyric sheet and the first line on the lyric sheet says I'm just an ordinary man Wow

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we hadn't talked we didn't spoken and in that word that was the first song we wrote together after this experience the first day he's thinking this that's such a that's that's I mean in one life Sakai you say give me a million people that ain't even the big picture telling a lot

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of people yes I know that million people are bad luck I already I was a singer I'm real Cory I love these guys my best man love it was great so what we have you know what the thing is when you make your music so good to have fun doing so record we got to fraud is gonna do we

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just dizzy and it's like when things come down easily former go eat that good that's what flights are people if I go I'll go oh you sure yes I know but I gotta say about him I've never worked with anyone that makes you so he makes you so confident when you're working

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with him and and makes you feel so good about the things that you're doing doesn't tell you that he says that guitar / right there that's amazing do more that he motivates you and we wrote this amazing song and then he goes go to Abbey Road record an orchestra get a choir put a choir on the

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song that's the Instagram footage of you jerk like conducting string yes he sent me to Abbey Road to get an orchestra in this song because he wanted it wasn't like hey who does strings in LA it was a get on the plane you do it go to London go to Abbey Road record the strings

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slash played the guitar solo my cat poor young that's a good daddy Elton John is also on the song as well talk about that after thank you wow that's a copyright that is a real one it's so that's powerful at the moment Desco and what it really brings

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home for me as a lifelong fan of not just yourself but of Elton is that once you've lived this life no one else has lived like you no one else has lived like Elton you get to a point in your life you start to think about how will this will be remembered how will

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immortality play out and that's a song that speaks to me about everyone's feeling about that how will I be remembered I get asked this question a lot of the question I got which is my favorite album however my my answer varies I have a my dear you must say this one on that one next one that means

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everyone after days was good oh I always say I haven't done my Sergeant Pepper yeah which which keeps me going I said something on my Warner I'm a big big fan Paul McCartney's myself I was so disappointed and in the past a fluffer of mind mess or flaw Akhil album such a

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Sharon you know thing is who's gonna say so Formica on your own so she would that's what I have a wife that goes you know that you sucks you know you cuz she knows me better than I do you know she goes you can do better than that or you you know I know

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well she gives me a look and I don't you don't have to say anything what does she think of that loves ooh what was her reaction when she first heard it everybody starts growing it's crazy emotional it's not that bad you know it's every time I listen that song I

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have to slap myself in the face it's crazy man don't cry again well because there's only one certainty after birth and that's the end so what it does is it is whether you recognize it in the song or not as a fan of that song I recognize mortality in that song and not for

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myself because long way I live but for the people around me who are coming to their time there my loved ones who are older than I am you know that bridge must be crossed and that's the song you listen to when you cross that bridge mm-hmm I don't know why I'm wrong how

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was working with Elton box texts detect I mean he's one of your best friends but this is a view who worked with him before right yeah Andrew get on the plane go to Atlanta you're recording Elton he gives me these gifts constantly over and I've made so much music that I'm so proud of

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and so happy about and you know you try not make it seem like work but there's there's moments where they it feels like work because it is work and this was just like wait I'm doing what was he your idea to get Alton on the song well when I first film that song it reminded

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me about John as one party he's talking very 79 homeland john-boy how such a shine you don't ask him yeah he said when where everyone's response I swear my life when Ozzy has asked them to do something for this album when Duff when jazz when everyone was you're an Elton's

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relationship when you first connected back in whenever was the 70s or the 80s was it instant was it an immediate friendship when the TV thing would go in the Osborne's I'm actually bran the corner people just come in the house well that's all I wanted a down chatter

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from years ago honey come on our side yeah just find the bomb site Oh is yours oh no no no baby me my most generous man I've ever met such an incredible human being unbelievable he does so much for charities MA and more than anyone will ever truly know [Music] you