Speaking with Ultimate Classic Rock, Black Label Society frontman and former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde offered his thoughts on why guitar legend Randy Rhoads was the perfect match for the Black Sabbath singer. Following is an excerpt from the chat.

Zakk: "Randy didn’t like Sabbath at all. So, from the world he was coming from and where Ozzy is coming from, the fact that he didn’t like Black Sabbath at all, and wasn’t influenced by Sabbath or anything like that, is really how that soup worked. There was a ton of Ozzy material before they turned into Ozzy songs. The major riff in 'Crazy Train' and everything like that with the A-E-D-A, where it goes all major and everything like that, that was Quiet Riot kind of stuff."

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In an August 2021 interview with Rolling Stone, veteran bassist Bob Daisley discusses his years sith Ozzy Osbourne, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio. In the following excerpt, he tells Andy Greene about first meeting late guitar hero, Randy Rhoads.

"I went to Jet Records and met him. I had this vision in my mind of Randy because he’d been described to me by Ozzy as a guitar teacher. I expected to see some bloke with a cardigan and slippers and a pipe. (Laughs) I walked in and saw Randy. He was young. He was only 22 or something then. We met and went up on the train together to Ozzy’s place. We had a knock together. Ozzy had a friend of his that played drums for us. He wasn’t a professional drummer, but he could keep a beat while we had a knock together.

"At the end of the first good play together, Randy and I looked at each other and virtually said the same words at the same time. It was something along the lines of, “I like your playing.” We immediately knew there was a spark there, and we began auditioning drummers.

"At that time that Randy and I went up to Ozzy’s, Randy was staying in a hotel in London. They put him up in a hotel there, the Montcalm in the West End near the Marble Arch. After we played together the first time, we caught a train to London the next day. And when I was standing at Stafford Railway Station with Randy, I had this sort of premonition. I had this feeling. “One day, people are going to be asking me over and over again what it was like to play with Randy Rhoads.”

"I didn’t have that much experience of playing with Randy at that point. It just came to me. I knew he was a good player and I knew it worked between us. That’s why I said, “Let’s get drummers lined up and audition and carry on.” But I remember that voice in my head, that premonition. And know when I look back, it did happen."

Read the extensive interview at RollingStone.com.