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YOU CAN'T BRING ME DOWN
Live & Loud
is a live album
recorded by
heavy metal
vocal Singer
Ozzy Osbourne
released on
June 7th 1993.
At the time,
it was to be
Osbourne's
final album
following his
final tour
before retiring,
aptly titled
"No More Tours".
The track
"Black Sabbath"
featured a reunion
of the original
line-up
of
Black Sabbath,
Osbourne's former band,
in which the
other members were
invited to join Ozzy
as guest stars for
the Costa Mesa
Reunion shows.
Other songs
were performed
by the original
Black Sabbath lineup,
but were not included
in this release.
In addition to
the standard release in a
'"fat-boy"
two-CD case,
the album was released
as a digipak with
a metal speaker
grille cover
and included tattoos,
as well as the booklet;
the official release
was preceded by a
single CD sampler
issued as a
promotional item.
A DVD of
Live & Loud
was also issued,
one of the first
music compilations
released in that format.
The DVD is a
compilation of live footage
from several shows
rather than
a single concert:
this is evident as
Osbourne can be seen
both shirtless
and wearing
different clothes
during the same song,
while guitarist
Zakk Wylde
can be seen
playing up to three
different guitars
in the same song.
The live recordings
in the CD
(with the exclusion of
Wylde's guitar solo
and Castillo's drum solo)
are used as
the soundtrack
for the collage
of performances
in the video release,
the only difference
being in the selection
of speeches with
which Osbourne
introduces some of the songs.
in 1994,
Osbourne won a
Grammy Award
for Best Metal Performance
for the live version of
"I Don't Want to Change the World",
featured on this album.
Due to ongoing
legal litigation
regarding
song writing credits
for the track
"Shot In The Dark",
this album,
along with
The Ultimate Sin
and
Just Say Ozzy
(both of which also included the song),
were not remastered
and reissued along with
the rest of Ozzy's
back catalog
in 2002.
However,
the Grammy-winning
live track,
"I Don't Want to Change the World"
from
Live & Loud
did appear on
The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
compilation released
in 2003.
NOTES :
I ADDED BONUS TRACKS
AT THE END OF
DISC TWO
BONUS TRACKS :
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