Under Cover by Ozzy Osbourne

Under Cover, Ozzy Osbourne's ninth studio album, arrived on Epic on November 1, 2005, and it's the Prince of Darkness doing something he'd never done before on a studio record: singing other people's songs from start to finish. Most of it had already turned up earlier that year on the box set Prince of Darkness; "Rocky Mountain Way", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Woman" and "Go Now" were the new arrivals.

The picks lean hard on the rock of the '60s and '70s, and Ozzy tears into them like a fan let loose on his old record collection, with Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and bassist Chris Wyse along for the ride, the only time either played on an Osbourne album. He wanted to take on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale", his all-time favorite song, but was talked out of it because Zakk Wylde had just cut it. "Mississippi Queen" went out as a promo single and hit number 10 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

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