We weren't getting along with each other and we were all fucked-up with drugs and alcohol. "We were just a fucking bunch of guys drowning in the fucking ocean. "With Never Say Die!, we were down on our luck," Osbourne reflected to Spin magazine. Everybody was playing a different thing." We'd go down to the sessions and have to pack up because we were too stoned. He'd say, 'I'm not singing that.' So you'd have to rethink the whole thing." In the 2004 book How Black Was Our Sabbath, Iommi is quoted as saying, "We were all into silly games . We did this 10th anniversary tour with Van Halen in 1978, and everybody's going 'Here's to another 10 years!' And I'm going, (rolls eyes) 'Yeah, sure!'"īutler was growing impatient with Osbourne's criticism of his lyrics, telling Guitar World in 1994: "I used to hate doing it towards the end of the Ozzy era. Because we knew that was it we just knew it was never going to happen again. People didn't realize that it was sort of tongue-in-cheek, the Never Say Die! thing. We'd be there, trying to write songs during the day and go and record them at night." In the same article bassist Geezer Butler added, " Never Say Die was a patch-up kind of an album . So we had this cinema that we'd go into at 10 o'clock in the morning, and it was freezing cold it was in the heart of winter there, really awful. In 2001 Iommi elaborated to Dan Epstein of Guitar World, "I booked a studio in Toronto, and we had to find some place to rehearse. They were okay about it, but it took time to get it exactly right. So what we had to do was rip the carpet up and try to make it as live as we could. We got there and it had a dead sound – totally wrong. The studio was booked through brochures because people thought it might be a good one. "Why Toronto? Because of the tax, really. "We went to Toronto to record it, and that's when the problems started," Iommi recalled. The album was recorded at Sounds Interchange Studios in Toronto. I don't think anyone's heart was in it anymore." But it was obvious things had changed, especially between me and Tony. I just turned up in the studio one day – I think Bill had been trying to act as peacemaker on the phone – and that was the end of it. I left the band for three months before we got back together to record it." However, the writing was on the wall, with Osbourne stating in his memoir I Am Ozzy: "No one really talked about what had happened. "My father was dying, so that put us out for over three months with the funeral and everything. "We had a few internal problems," Osbourne admitted to Sounds magazine. The songs with Walker were redone "Junior's Eyes" was rewritten to be about the then-recent death of Osbourne's father. Osbourne also refused to sing on "Breakout", which remained an instrumental. As a result, the album sounds very confused. We ended up having to write in the day so we could record in the evening, and we never had time to review the tracks and make changes. Bill Ward had to sing on one track ("Swinging The Chain") because Ozzy refused to sing it. Iommi elaborated in the 1992 Guitar World piece, Osbourne eventually rejoined, refusing to sing any of the songs written with Walker. So we had to bring in another singer and write all new material." The band wrote a handful of songs with Walker, with that short-lived line-up even performing an early version of what would become "Junior's Eyes" on the BBC programme Look Hear. In 1992, guitarist Tony Iommi explained to Guitar World, "We never wanted him to leave, and I think he wanted to come back – but no one would tell the other how they felt. Prior to recording, vocalist Osbourne briefly quit the band and was temporarily replaced by former Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Dave Walker. Recording Īt the time of the recording of Never Say Die! the members of Black Sabbath were all heavily involved in drug and alcohol abuse. The album received mixed reviews, with critics calling it "unbalanced" and insisting its energy was scattered in too many directions. on 7 November 1997 and as of November 2011 has sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era. It was the last studio album with the band's original lineup and the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album 13. Never Say Die! is the eighth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released on 29 September 1978.
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