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Posted on 10/16/2025 5:04:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna ended up singing on the same song in 1983 - but Madonna wouldn't release it
In an age when musicians regularly plunder their studio archives for material to pad out expanded versions of albums you already own, seemingly happy for the recordings they never wanted you to hear first time round to be used as musical ballast in "deluxe edition" versions of the same thing, it's rare to hear about unreleased material that demands to be heard.
Don Was has just such a track. Back in 1983, when his band Was (Not Was) were recording their second album, Born To Laugh At Tornadoes, they brought in a couple of musicians to record vocals on the track Shake Your Head. The first was Ozzy Osbourne, then gearing up for the release of his third solo album, Bark At The Moon. The second was a young session singer by the name of Madonna.
In 1992, Was (Not Was) rerecorded Shake Your Head for the compilation album Hello Dad... I'm in Jail, and Ozzy rerecorded his vocal part. Unfortunately, Madonna refused permission for her contributions to be used, so actress Kim Basinger – who had appeared on Prince's 1989 single Scandalous! and recorded a (thus-far unreleased) solo album the following year – was approached, and the rest is history. Shake Your Head became Was (Not Was)'s biggest international hit, reaching the top five in the UK. But it could have been so different.
"We realised about eight years later that we had Ozzy and Madonna on parallel tracks,” says Was. "So we gave it to a remixer… and he turned it into a Ozzy/Madonna duet."
Time for a deluxe edition of Born to Laugh at Tornadoes, perhaps?
Elsewhere in the interview, Was reveals that the first time he met Ozzy was in 1974, when Was was playing bass for cult Detroit folk musician Ted Lucas. They supported Black Sabbath at a show, and a tape later uncovered by Third Man Records tells the story of the performance.
"There’s a bunch of 14-year-olds on amphetamines, and a folk group was not what they came to hear," says Was. "You can hear the beer bottles breaking as we were just pelted with debris from song number one. We didn’t make it through the set because the drummer was bleeding so bad that we had to flee the stage. We actually lasted longer in the ring than I thought we did. I thought we didn’t make it through the first song – we did three or four songs."
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I thought of that, but apparently someone esle already did it, who apparently isn't that great at it: Crazy For You (Madonna) x Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne) (Kinda clunky)
Madonna ft Ozzy Osbourne - Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed)
There are several of the Madonna/Osbourne recording on YouTube, including the above, which seems to be legit. This was before she was famous.
Ozzy was more likely to get rabies from Madonna than from that bat he bit.
And enough botox to poison every can of Campbell's soup in the country several times over.
Can bats get chlamydia? Koalas can.
They didn't want to hear "Puff the Magic Dragon?"
Iron Woman?
Iron Woman?
Sometimes tour promoters book opening bands that don't make sense. The Eagles of Death Metal opened for Guns N' Roses and they are not metal. Axl Roses insulted them after the first show and they were kicked off the tour.
Remember the Blues Brothers, when they get booked to a play a country bar, so they have to change what they play?
That happened in real life when The Cure played a metal club. They were forced to play 10:15 on a Saturday Night over and over again, because that was all the metalheads liked.
Iron Material Girl?
If its anywhere near as bad as Was(Not Was) other stuff then his family should fight it lest it damage his sales.
Depends on the definition of "boyfriend".
Madonna’s voice back then sounded was like she was on helium, and Ozzy was...Ozzy.
I do not want to hear it.
Mr. Carraway,
I see you post such things from time to time; such topics seem very important to you.
Do you ever think about WHERE you will spend eternity?
Maybe you don’t believe that Jesus Christ is your ONLY way to avoid hell...
But what if this is true ??
Bkmk
Thank you for your concern as to my motes. I hate to think I'm distracting you from your own.
“Duetting”?
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? 🤣
Walk the Dinosaur is so much catchier and hipper than this electronic drek.
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