He dusted himself off after Black Sabbath fired him as their frontman and redefined himself as an unflappable heavy-metal madman. As wild as his antics were and as dark as some of his music was, he always let his fans in on the joke. Ordinary Man brings Osbourne into new light. He was still recovering from an operation related to his fall last year when his daughter Kelly asked if he wanted to make a song with Post Malone — someone Ozzy had never heard of. Ozzy has said the album was therapeutic for him, and you can hear it in his voice.
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On his best album in decades, the most famous man in metal reaches again for big hooks and big statements, with help from new friends like Post Malone. In , by then years removed from his last great album , he launched the annual metal circus that borrowed his name. He soon became an early star of reality television , a lovably mumbling patriarch in a family of salacious misfits. He no longer needed to strive to make great music; he just had to be on time for an annual summer of sets and, like, get really bummed about jogging on his birthday.
It was released on 21 February through Epic Records. It was produced by Andrew Watt and Louis Bell. It marks the first time that Osbourne collaborated with Watt and Bell. The album marks the longest gap between two albums from Osbourne to date, spanning almost ten years since Scream.
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