Editing Tribute (Ozzy Osbourne album)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Tribute
| type       = live
| artist     = [[Ozzy Osbourne]]
| cover      = Tribute crop.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{start date|df=y|1987|4}}
| recorded   = 1980/1981
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = *[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
*[[hard rock]]<ref name="allmusic" >{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tribute-mw0000195175 |title=Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute |last=Huey |first=Steve |work=[[All Music]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=8 November 2015 }}</ref>
| length     = 70:28
| label      = [[Epic Records|Epic]]<br />[[Columbia Records|CBS]]
| producer   =
*[[Max Norman]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Max Norman Interview|date= 25 May 2013|url= http://musiclegends.ca/interviews/max-norman-interview/|publisher=Music Legends|access-date=3 July 2013}}</ref>
*Ozzy Osbourne
| chronology = [[Ozzy Osbourne]]
| prev_title = [[The Ultimate Sin]]
| prev_year  = 1986
| next_title = [[No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)|No Rest for the Wicked]]
| next_year  = 1988
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Tribute
 | type        = live
 | single1     = [[Crazy Train]]
 | single1date = 22 June 1987<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1987/Music-Week-1987-06-20.pdf|title=Music Week|page=11}}</ref>
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic" />
| rev2 =[[Martin Popoff]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating|7|10}}<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = 1 November 2005 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada | isbn = 978-1-894959-31-5}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3Score = (favorable)<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ozzyosbourne/albums/album/236833/review/5944874/tribute |title=Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute |last=Coleman |first=Mark |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=2 July 1987 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828013532/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ozzyosbourne/albums/album/236833/review/5944874/tribute |archive-date=28 August 2006 |access-date=8 November 2015 }}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
'''''Tribute''''' is a live album by British [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] singer [[Ozzy Osbourne]], featuring his work with [[hard rock]] [[guitarist]] [[Randy Rhoads]], in whose honor the album was released.<ref name="allmusic" /> The album was released in April 1987 in the US<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Ozzy+Osbourne&ti=Tribute&format=Album&type=#search_section|title=RIAA|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref> and May 1987 in the UK,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/610/mode/2up|title=The Great Rock Discography|year=1995|page=610 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press }}</ref> five years after the death of Rhoads, then it was reissued on 22 August 1995, and again [[remaster]]ed and reissued in 2002. It peaked at number 6 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] chart.<ref name="album" >{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1987-06-13/ |title=Tribute Billboard Albums |work=[[Billboard 200]] |publisher=[[Billboard_(magazine)]] |access-date=7 June 2023 }}</ref>

==Background==
The album was released in memory of Randy Rhoads, guitarist for Osbourne's band between 1979 and 1982 who died in a [[Aviation accidents and incidents|plane crash]] while on tour in [[Florida]] in 1982. The album also includes studio outtakes of Rhoads recording the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece "[[Dee (song)|Dee]]", which Rhoads wrote for his mother Delores and which was originally included on Osbourne's debut solo album ''[[Blizzard of Ozz]]''.

A live album consisting entirely of renditions of [[Black Sabbath]] songs was originally planned to be recorded at Toronto's [[Maple Leaf Gardens]] in mid-1982 with Rhoads. Rhoads and drummer [[Tommy Aldridge]] felt that they had established themselves as recording artists and an album of cover songs would be a step backwards artistically, and they refused to participate. Bassist [[Rudy Sarzo]] was uncomfortable with refusing to perform, not having the same recording pedigree of his bandmates, but he stood with them and the trio informed management of their decision. Osbourne felt betrayed and his relationship with Rhoads never fully recovered.<ref name="SarzoMemoir">Sarzo, Rudy (2017). Off the Rails (third edition). CreateSpace Publishing. {{ISBN|1-53743-746-1}}</ref> Plans for this proposed live album crumbled upon Rhoads' sudden death weeks later, though the plan was resurrected with the release of ''[[Speak of the Devil (Ozzy Osbourne album)|Speak of the Devil]]'' later that year with Sarzo and Aldridge joined by [[Night Ranger]] guitarist [[Brad Gillis]].

==Overview==
The majority of ''Tribute'', from "I Don't Know" through to "Paranoid", was recorded live in [[Cleveland, Ohio]] on 11 May 1981.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/osbourneozzy-tribute/ |title=Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute |last=Begrand |first=Adrien |magazine=[[PopMatters]] |date=28 May 2002 |access-date=8 November 2015 }}</ref> "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies" are taken from an earlier English gig in support of the ''[[Blizzard of Ozz]]'' album, possibly from [[Southampton]] on 2 October 1980. These two tracks feature bassist [[Bob Daisley]] and drummer [[Lee Kerslake]].

The versions of "Iron Man", "Children of the Grave", and "Paranoid" featured on ''Tribute'' were originally intended to be included on the 1982 live album ''Speak of the Devil''. In the months following Rhoads' death, these three songs were intended to be released in tribute to the guitarist, but a record company decision was made to save them for a full album to be released at a later date.<ref name="SarzoMemoir" />

The recording of "Crazy Train" that appears on this album was also released as the album's only single on 10 February 1987, along with an accompanying [[music video]]. The album's cover photo was taken at a performance in [[Rosemont, Illinois]] on 24 January 1982, by photographer Paul Natkin.

The operatic music which opens ''Tribute'', as well as all of Osbourne's live shows of that era, is "[[O Fortuna]]" from the ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'' scenic cantata by [[Carl Orff]]. When the album was remastered in 1995, the introduction was removed, shortening the opening track "I Don't Know" to 4:43. It was restored for the 2002 remaster.

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Originally from
| all_writing = [[Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Randy Rhoads]] and [[Bob Daisley]], except where indicated
| title1 = I Don't Know
| extra1 = ''[[Blizzard of Ozz]]'' (1980)
| length1 = 5:40
| title2 = [[Crazy Train]]
| extra2 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length2 = 5:19
| title3 = Believer
| extra3 = ''[[Diary of a Madman (album)|Diary of a Madman]]'' (1981)
| length3 = 5:08
| title4 = [[Mr. Crowley]]
| extra4 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length4 = 5:37
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Originally from
| title1 = [[Flying High Again]]
| writer1 = Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, [[Lee Kerslake]]
| extra1 = ''Diary of a Madman''
| length1 = 4:17
| title2 = Revelation (Mother Earth)
| extra2 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length2 = 5:58
| title3 = Steal Away (The Night)
| extra3 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length3 = 8:04
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side three
| extra_column = Originally from
| title1 = [[Suicide Solution]]
| extra1 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length1 = 7:46
| title2 = [[Iron Man (song)|Iron Man]]
| writer2 = Osbourne, [[Tony Iommi]], [[Geezer Butler]], [[Bill Ward (musician)|Bill Ward]]
| extra2 = ''[[Paranoid (album)|Paranoid]]'' (1970)
| length2 = 2:50
| title3 = [[Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath song)|Children of the Grave]]
| writer3 = Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward
| extra3 = ''[[Master of Reality]]'' (1971)
| length3 = 5:57
| title4 = [[Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)|Paranoid]]
| writer4 = Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward
| extra4 = ''Paranoid''
| length4 = 2:59
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side four
| extra_column = Originally from
| title1 = Goodbye to Romance
| extra1 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length1 = 5:33
| title2 = No Bone Movies
| writer2 = Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake
| extra2 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length2 = 4:02
| title3 = Dee
| note3 = Randy Rhoads studio outtakes
| writer3 = Rhoads
| extra3 = ''Blizzard of Ozz''
| length3 = 4:22
}}

==Personnel==
*[[Ozzy Osbourne]] - vocals, executive producer
*[[Randy Rhoads]] - guitar
*[[Rudy Sarzo]] - bass
*[[Tommy Aldridge]] - drums
*Lindsay Bridgwater - keyboards
*[[Bob Daisley]] - bass on "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies"
*[[Lee Kerslake]] - drums on "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies"

===Production===
*[[Max Norman]] - producer, engineer
*Brian Lee and [[Bob Ludwig]] - 1995 remastering
*Bruce Dickinson - 2002 edition executive producer
*Chris Athens - 2002 remastering

==Charts==
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===Album===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1987)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 46
|-
{{album chart|Canada|17|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|album= Rhandy Rhodes Tribute|chartid=0816|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|-
! scope="row"| Finnish Albums ([[The Official Finnish Charts]])<ref name=FINI>{{cite book|last=Pennanen|first=Timo|title=Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972|edition=1st|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|year=2006|isbn=978-951-1-21053-5 | language= fi}}</ref>
| align="center"| 13
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|41|id=46112|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|album=Rhandy Rhodes Tribute|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|New Zealand|36|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|album=Rhandy Rhodes Tribute|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|17|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|album=Rhandy Rhodes Tribute|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|13|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|6|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|rowheader=true|access-date=25 August 2021}}
|}
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===Singles===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!scope="col"|Single
!scope="col"|Chart (1987)
!scope="col"|Peak<br>position
|-
!scope="row"|"[[Crazy Train]]"
|align="center"|[[UK Singles Chart]]<ref name="GB" >{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/19970/ozzy-osbourne/ |title=Ozzy Osbourne Official Charts |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=25 October 2015 }}</ref>
|align="center"|99
|}
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== Certifications ==
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Australia|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|title=Tribute|award=Gold|certyear=2021|relyear=1987|access-date=30 April 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Canada|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|title=Tribute|award=Gold|certyear=1989|relyear=1987|access-date=30 April 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United States|artist=Ozzy Osbourne|title=Tribute|award=Platinum|number=2|certyear=1997|relyear=1987|access-date=30 April 2021|refname=RIAA}}
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== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{Discogs master|type=album|41144|name=Tribute}}

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