Crazy Train, the Glossary
"Crazy Train" is the debut solo single by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and was released in 1980 from his debut album as a solo artist, Blizzard of Ozz (1980).[1]
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45 relations: AllMusic, Billboard (magazine), Blizzard of Ozz, Bob Daisley, Bubbling Under Hot 100, Cold War, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Epic Records, Future plc, Glam metal, Greg Leon, Guitar solo, Guitar World, Heavy metal music, Jet Records, Lee Kerslake, List of songs about the Cold War, List of train songs, Mainstream Rock (chart), Max Norman, Metal Hammer, Mike Bordin, Mr. Crowley, Music recording certification, No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album), Ozzy Osbourne, Phonograph record, Quiet Riot, Randy Rhoads, Ridge Farm Studio, Ritchie Blackmore, Robert Trujillo, Rolling Stone, Rudy Sarzo, Rusper, Songfacts, Steve Miller (musician), Swingtown (song), The Ultimate Sin, Tommy Aldridge, Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album), VH1, Vibraslap, West Sussex.
- 1980 debut singles
- Jet Records singles
- Ozzy Osbourne songs
- Songs written by Bob Daisley
- Songs written by Ozzy Osbourne
- Songs written by Randy Rhoads
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Blizzard of Ozz
Blizzard of Ozz is the debut studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, released on 12 September 1980 in the UK and on 27 March 1981 in the US.
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Bob Daisley
Robert John Daisley (born 13 February 1950) is an Australian musician and songwriter.
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Bubbling Under Hot 100
Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (also known as Bubbling Under the Hot 100) is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
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Don Airey
Donald Smith Airey (born 21 June 1948) is an English musician who has been the keyboardist in the rock band Deep Purple since 2002, after the retirement of Jon Lord.
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Future plc
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Among its many titles are Country Life, Homes and Gardens, Decanter, Marie Claire, and The Week. Zillah Byng-Thorne was chief executive officer from 2014 to 2023, when she was replaced by Jon Steinberg.
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Glam metal (also known as hair metal or pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, upbeat rock anthems, and slow power ballads.
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Greg Leon
Gregory Jay Leon (born May 19, 1958) is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with American heavy metal bands Quiet Riot and Dokken.
Guitar solo
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music, pre-written (or improvised) to be played on a classical, electric, or acoustic guitar.
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Guitar World
Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.
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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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Jet Records
Jet Records was a British record label started by Don Arden in 1974, featuring musicians such as Lynsey de Paul, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Price, Adrian Gurvitz, Riot and Magnum.
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Lee Kerslake
Lee Gary Kerslake (16 April 1947– 19 September 2020) was an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Uriah Heep and for his work with Ozzy Osbourne in the early 1980s.
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List of songs about the Cold War
This is a list of songs about the Cold War.
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List of train songs
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.
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Mainstream Rock (chart)
Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine that ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations in the United States, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.
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Max Norman
Max Norman is a British record producer and recording engineer active since 1973.
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Metal Hammer is a heavy metal music magazine and website founded in 1983, published in the United Kingdom by Future, with other language editions published by different companies available in numerous other countries.
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Mike Bordin
Michael Andrew Bordin (born November 27, 1962) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Faith No More.
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Mr. Crowley
"Mr. Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley are 1980 songs, Jet Records singles, Ozzy Osbourne songs, songs written by Bob Daisley, songs written by Ozzy Osbourne and songs written by Randy Rhoads.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)
No Rest for the Wicked is the fifth solo studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.
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Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English musician and media personality.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band founded in Los Angeles in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni.
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Randy Rhoads
Randall William Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982) was an American guitarist.
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Ridge Farm Studio
Ridge Farm Studio was one of the earliest residential recording studios in the United Kingdom.
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Ritchie Blackmore
Richard Hugh Blackmore (born 14 April 1945) is an English guitarist.
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Robert Trujillo
Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz (born October 23, 1964) is an American musician who has been the bassist for heavy metal band Metallica since 2003.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Rudy Sarzo
Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont (born November 18, 1950) is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist.
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Rusper
Rusper is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.
Songfacts
Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found.
Steve Miller (musician)
Steven Haworth Miller (born October 5, 1943)Justin Kern.
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Swingtown (song)
"Swingtown" is a 1977 hit song by the Steve Miller Band.
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The Ultimate Sin
The Ultimate Sin is the fourth studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne.
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Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge (born August 15, 1950) is an American heavy metal and hard rock drummer.
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Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album)
Tribute is a live album by British heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, featuring his work with hard rock guitarist Randy Rhoads, in whose honor the album was released.
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VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.
Vibraslap
The vibraslap is a percussion instrument consisting of a piece of stiff wire (bent into a U-shape) connecting a wooden ball to a hollow box of wood with metal "teeth" inside.
West Sussex
West Sussex is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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See also
1980 debut singles
- A Lover's Holiday
- Ah! Leah!
- Another Day (U2 song)
- Baltimore (Tori Amos song)
- Bianca Surf / Photoni
- C·30 C·60 C·90 Go
- Can't Help Myself (Flowers song)
- Crazy Train
- Falling and Laughing
- Fame (Irene Cara song)
- Food for Thought (song)
- Funkytown
- Help Me! (Marcy Levy and Robin Gibb song)
- How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?
- If You Feel the Funk
- Judy (Thomas Anders song)
- Keep in Touch
- King (UB40 song)
- Modern Girl (Sheena Easton song)
- More Bounce to the Ounce
- Pay to Cum
- Ride Like the Wind
- Rough Boys
- Runaway Boys
- Running Free
- Simple Simon (song)
- Somebody's Knockin'
- Squares and Triangles
- Steal Away (Robbie Dupree song)
- Take Your Time (Do It Right)
- The Dicks Hate the Police
- To Cut a Long Story Short
- Underpass (song)
- We Were Meant to Be Lovers
Jet Records singles
- All Over the World (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Bark at the Moon (song)
- Central Park Arrest
- Confusion (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Crazy Train
- Do Ya (The Move song)
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Don't Walk Away (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Evil Woman (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Fire On High
- Flying High Again
- Four Little Diamonds
- Here Is the News
- Hold On Tight (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- I'm Alive (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- If I Don't Get You the Next One Will
- It's Over (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Last Train to London
- Livin' Thing
- Love Bomb (Lynsey de Paul song)
- Magic (Olivia Newton-John song)
- Mr. Blue Sky
- Mr. Crowley
- My Man and Me
- My One and Only (Bones song)
- Nightrider (song)
- No, Honestly (song)
- Oh What a Shame
- One Summer Dream
- Over the Mountain
- Rain Is Falling
- Rhythm and Blue Jean Baby
- Rock 'n' Roll Is King
- Rockaria!
- Secret Messages (song)
- Shine a Little Love
- Strange Magic (song)
- Stranger (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Suddenly (Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard song)
- Sweet Talkin' Woman
- Telephone Line (song)
- The Diary of Horace Wimp
- The Way Life's Meant to Be
- Ticket to the Moon
- Tran-Sister
- Turn to Stone (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song)
- Wild West Hero
- Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra song)
Ozzy Osbourne songs
- Bark at the Moon (song)
- Changes (Black Sabbath song)
- Close My Eyes Forever
- Crazy Train
- Dreamer (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Flying High Again
- Gets Me Through
- Good Times (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)
- Goodbye to Romance (song)
- Hellraiser (Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead song)
- I Don't Wanna Stop
- I Don't Want to Change the World
- In My Life
- It's a Raid
- Mama, I'm Coming Home
- Mississippi Queen
- Mr. Crowley
- No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Not Going Away
- Ordinary Man (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Over the Mountain
- Rocky Mountain Way
- Shock the Monkey
- Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Suicide Solution
- Take What You Want
- Under the Graveyard
Songs written by Bob Daisley
- Bark at the Moon (song)
- Crazy Train
- Flying High Again
- Let's Go (Trick Daddy song)
- Mr. Crowley
- Over the Mountain
- Suicide Solution
- Undead (Hollywood Undead song)
Songs written by Ozzy Osbourne
- Am I Going Insane (Radio)
- Bark at the Moon (song)
- Black Sabbath (song)
- Changes (Black Sabbath song)
- Children of the Grave
- Close My Eyes Forever
- Crazy Train
- Dreamer (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- End of the Beginning (song)
- Fairies Wear Boots
- Flying High Again
- Gets Me Through
- God Is Dead?
- Goodbye to Romance (song)
- Hand of Doom
- Hell of a Life (Kanye West song)
- Hell of a Life (T.I. song)
- Hellraiser (Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead song)
- Hole in the Sky (song)
- I Ain't Goin' Out Like That
- I Don't Wanna Stop
- I Don't Want to Change the World
- Into the Void (Black Sabbath song)
- Iron Man (song)
- It's a Raid
- Let's Go (Trick Daddy song)
- Mama, I'm Coming Home
- Mr. Crowley
- N.I.B.
- No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Not Going Away
- Ordinary Man (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Over the Mountain
- Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)
- Planet Caravan
- Psycho Man (song)
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (song)
- Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne song)
- Solitude (Black Sabbath song)
- Suicide Solution
- Supernaut (song)
- Sweet Leaf
- Symptom of the Universe
- Take What You Want
- The Wizard (Black Sabbath song)
- Undead (Hollywood Undead song)
- Under the Graveyard
- War Pigs
- We the People.... (song)
Songs written by Randy Rhoads
- Crazy Train
- Flying High Again
- Goodbye to Romance (song)
- Let's Go (Trick Daddy song)
- Mr. Crowley
- Over the Mountain
- Suicide Solution
- Undead (Hollywood Undead song)