Along with “Blizzard of Ozz,” the album that bore this title track is Osbourne’s best seller. The single, meanwhile, is ushered in with a gripping bass line and an undercurrent of keyboards until Osbourne makes his grand vocal entrance, all sneers and snarls.

The world never fell out of love with this Prince of Darkness. Ozzy blew up into a Seventies teenage antihero because he seemed to speak for the misfits, the rejects, the outcasts. He helped invent metal as we know it with Black Sabbath,