BILLY MORRISON - "OZZY Wanted To Sing A Ballad, 30 Minutes Later I Had A Ballad"
October 5, 2015, 8 years ago
Guitarist Billy Morrison (The Cult, Camp Freddy, Billy Idol) will release his second solo album, God Shaped Hole, on October 23rd via his own King Mob Music label.
Morrison is joined on God Shaped Hole by Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens, and Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, on some leads, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, who sang and co-wrote the song “Gods”.
Speaking to Robert Cavuoto of Guitar International, Morrison revealed that "Ozzy told me, 'I want to sing a ballad, have you got a ballad?' When the Prince of Darkness asks you something like that you say 'Yes!' [Laughing] At the time I didn’t have a ballad. Thirty minutes later I had a ballad.
We went to South America together and I bought an acoustic guitar. I stayed in his hotel room and in another 30 minutes I was playing the chords and he wrote the lyrics. When we got back we recorded it."
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God Shaped Hole tracklisting:
"Goodbye Jimmy Dean" (Boys Wonder)
"Baby Hurricane" (Flesh For Lulu)
"Cinnamon Gin"
"Alone In A Crowd"
"Housewife" (Wasted Youth, UK)
"Hold It Down" (Senseless Things)
"Methadonia"
"You Are In My Vision" (Gary Numan And Tubeway Army)
"Ordinary Girl"
"Gods"
