Ozzy's next album would be "Bark at the Moon". The title track is a
song about a creature (werewolf) who has come back to seek revenge on those who
scorned and buried him. The video portrays Ozzy being confined to an asylum
because he was a mad scientist. In the asylum he sees this werewolf running
around chasing him. This song, like his earlier songs would supposedly affect
his listeners in negative ways, read on: "Rock Sparks Stabbing",
Canadian Press Association: Halifax, Canada, 9/26/84 "...according to the
Canadian Press Wire Service, the effect of heavy metal rock music so influenced
a young Canadian named James Jollimore, that '...on New Year's Eve -1983, he
went out and stabbed someone. A friend of the defendant testified that Jollimore,
20, who is charged with the first-degree murder of a 44 year old woman and her
two sons, felt like stabbing people when he heard music such as Ozzy Osbourne's
'Bark at the Moon'. 'Jimmy said that every time he listened to the song he felt
strange inside,' the friend told the court. 'He said when he heard it on New
Year's Eve he went out and stabbed someone.'" [Once again the blame would
be shifted from the individual to the musician.] Ozzy's band now consisted of
Jake E. Lee on guitar, Tommy Aldridge, Don Airey on keyboard and Bob Daisley on
bass. One of the videos they filmed for the album was the lovely ballad,
"So Tired". This ballad made use of a full orchestra. An interesting
note: Ozzy also plays the parts of all the main characters in the video. A good
use of makeup art is evident. One scene shows Ozzy in front of a mirror
clenching his fists, and the mirror shatters. While filming the video, the
charge which would shatter the mirror was too strong and the mirror exploded
sending glass into Ozzy's face.
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