“Bark at the Moon” by Ozzy Osbourne

"Bark at the Moon" was the first single and the title track from Ozzy Osbourne's 1983 album, and it gave him another first as well: his first music video. The official credit names Osbourne alone, but it was a team job. Bassist Bob Daisley helped write it and has said he accepted a buyout in exchange for his writing credits on the album, and Osbourne himself admitted in the liner notes to The Ozzman Cometh that he had the vocal line while guitarist Jake E. Lee came up with the riff, the first song the two of them wrote together.

That riff is the whole show: Lee tears into it like a werewolf off the leash, Tommy Aldridge pounds away, Don Airey's keyboards throw horror-movie shadows, and Daisley and Lee howl the backing vocals. Osbourne, Daisley and Max Norman produced, Tony Bongiovi mixed, and it reached 12 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.