It was one of those albums that started, and it just got better as we went along. This album has been all over the world! I was doing it down in Florida, on tour, where they were nailing up the fucking hotel because of Hurricane Charlie, and I'm singing with a big gold bowl of Red Bulls to keep me going. Ozzy Osbourne: " Mark Hudson, Leslie West did 'Mississippi Queen', Jerry Cantrell, Ian Hunter did 'All the Young Dudes', and a bunch of musicians and arrangers. I've got to confess, it's come out a lot better than I ever expected it to. So there's 14 or 15 for that album, and eight or 10 for the box set. We originally did like eight or ten songs, and they said, 'Fuckin' A, this is great, keep on going!' So we're going to do an album on the box set, then another album called 'Ozzy Undercover' or something.
If it turns into a pile of shit, nothing ventured, nothing gained.' A friend of mine, Mark Hudson, who I've known for many years and wrote some of 'Ozzmosis' with, produced it. So I built a studio in the back of the house and I said to Sharon, 'Let me just have a go at doing the covers. Ozzy Osbourne: "And when is he going to stop comething? We promise you this is the last cometh! It hasn't been me, though. Metal Edge: "The Ozzman Cometh" and he cometh again and again and again… I've had a long list, and Sharon comes up to me on the Ozzfest last year and tells me that Sony's putting together a box set of rarities and live recordings - stuff with Dweezil Zappa, the BEE GEES, WAS NOT WAS, 'Born to be Wild' with Miss Piggy, stuff like that - and she says, 'Why don't you do an album of cover songs?' I didn't know what it was going to sound like, but it's something different instead of another version of 'I Don't Know' done underwater in fuckin' Paris in '78! I must be the only artist with six or seven solo records, and eighty fuckin' spin-offs of the best of, in different running orders, in Chinese, whatever." I've always wanted to do 'Whiter Shade of Pale', but I didn't do it, because everybody who does a cover album, the first track is always 'Whiter Shade of Pale'. Ozzy Osbourne: "Over the years, I've always wanted to do an album of other people's stuff, like some Lennon. Metal Edge: The box set is obviously a career retrospective, but how long has the cover album been in the making? OZZY OSBOURNE recently spoke to Metal Edge magazine about his upcoming four-disc box set, "Prince of Darkness".