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	OZZY OSBOURNE Prince Of Darkness Box Set CD & DVD Review by Ritchie Champagne with screen captures from the DVD
	The third disc of the box set consists of duets and tracks Ozzy recorded with other artists or for television shows and movies. Close My Eyes Forever, Ozzy’s duet with Lita Ford and perhaps his most famous collaboration, is conspicuously absent. Ozzy states in his liner notes that he could have easily assembled a second disc of songs like these but thought that might have been overkill. What is here are tracks recorded with Type O Negative, Motorhead, and Miss Piggy (No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you!), among others. Some of these cuts team Ozzy with more “modern” rock bands, such as Primus and Infectious Grooves (in which Ozzy first collaborates with future bassist – and eventual Metallica member – Robert Trujillo). One cut, Psycho Man, brings the Ozzman full circle by reuniting the original members of Black Sabbath for a tune from their Reunion album. There are a few ill advised forays into rap collaboration included here, as well as an atrocious early 80s team up with Was (Not Was) that was perhaps better left forgotten. This disc features mostly cover songs and perhaps the most interesting is Ozzy’s legendary previously unreleased collaboration with Dweezil Zappa on the Bee Gees classic Stayin’ Alive. This track was not released, for whatever reason; Dweezil ended up removing Ozzy’s vocals, replacing the synths with electric guitar, and enlisting Donny Osmond to sing lead, resulting in an equally as interesting track.

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