Bassist Bob Daisley has spoken about his contributions to Ozzy Osbourne’s 1981 album, Diary Of A Madman, and has once more insisted that he must be credited for his work on the file.

Daisley labored on Osbourne’s first two solo data, 1980’s The Blizzard of Ozz in addition to Diary…, And nonetheless feels cheated out of correct accreditation for his taking part in. Daisley says that “seeing these inaccurate credit for the primary time” was like a “punch within the photo voltaic plexus”, and that seeing bassist Rudy Sarzo credited reasonably than him was hurtful.

In an interview with Bass Participant [via Guitar World], he says, “Simply ask me what I considered Rudy Sarzo being credited on Diary of a Madman! That was a travesty, a real crime towards [drummer] Lee Kerslake and me.

“I’d labored exhausting on that album – as I do with each album that I’ve been concerned with – each with the taking part in/writing features and the manufacturing. After which, to see all my exhausting work get credited to somebody who’d had nothing to do with any of it was heartbreaking, and the identical goes for Lee.”

He provides, “I might like to see correct accreditation on that album earlier than I take the lengthy filth nap.”

There’s a historical past of authorized battles between Daisley and Osbourne. He sued Osbourne in 2016 and his firm Blizzard Music Restricted, accusing him of withholding over $2m in unpaid royalties from the track Loopy Practice.

On the time, Osbourne refuted the claims and a consultant mentioned that Daisley had been receiving biannual royalty statements and checks from Blizzard Music, “totalling in hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, which have been routinely cashed.” The case was finally dismissed.

Again in 2023 throughout an episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Osbourne mentioned Daisley’s ‘Holy Grail’ demos, that are rumoured to include round seven hours of recording periods with late heavy metallic icon Randy Rhoads.

Within the episode, Osbourne mentioned, “The standard [of the recording] sucks… [He’d record] all the things we ever did. He would file the fucking milkman… The standard was fucking dreadful.”

“[He recorded] on a cassette machine,” Sharon added. “A tiny little cassette machine. And it’s not for us to do something with.”

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