The video titled ‘Under The Graveyard’ shows painful process of Ozzy’s going off drugs and alcohol
Ozzy Osbourne regained media attention recently with tremendous popularity of his latest collab with Post Malone and their memorable fiery performance at the AMAs. So it was perfect time to record new songs and a whole album and remind the world of true heavy metal pioneers. But the new video for ‘Under The Graveyard’ also reminds the world of Ozzy’s sex-drugs-&-rock’n’roll era and how painful it was to fight all his addictions at young age.
The track ‘Under The Graveyard’ appeared in November, marking Osbourne’s first solo music in a decade. The song title is really dark, and so is the music video. Osbourne made sort of a short documentary, taking us to his younger, wilder years. The clip starts with young Sharon Osbourne talking about an episode in their life when Ozzy had gone missing and got out of control.
Such behavior was typical off Ozzy in the late 1970’s: nothing but alcohol, drugs and wild parties, ending in total mess and debauchery. Sharon finally finds Ozzy in a horrible state in a hotel room. She doesn’t turn her back on him and insists on helping him with recovery. Watch the intimate video below:
It’s not surprising Ozzy finds this video creation of director Jonas Akerlund hard to “digest” himself:
“For ‘Under the Graveyard’ Jonas (Akerlund) developed the story into a ‘mini movie,’” Osbourne says. “But, to be quite honest, it’s hard for me to watch because it takes me back to some of the darkest times in my life. Thankfully Sharon was there to pick me up and believe in me. It was the first time she was there to fully support me and build me back up, but it certainly wasn’t the last.”
If the video touched a string in your soul, wait to hear Ozzy’s whole new album, titled Ordinary Man, which will be out early next year.
More: OZZY OSBOURNE still rocks: watch him sing with POST MALONE and TRAVIS SCOTT at AMAs 2019
Osbourne album’s producer Andrew Watts claims the record was written in four days. Watts had invited Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan to record their parts for Ozzy’s new album, so we’re talking a star-studded crew of musicians behind the record!
“We wrote and recorded Ozzy’s entire album, musically, in four days. There was no premeditation”, remembers Watts (via AltPress). “The three of us just got in my basement, put on headphones, looked at each other, and wrote 12 songs, 10 of which constitute the album. It was magic. I don’t even remember it”.
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