“Lightning Strikes” by Ozzy Osbourne

"Lightning Strikes" comes off The Ultimate Sin, Ozzy Osbourne's fourth studio album, from 1986, and it carries the stamp of the lineup that made it: Jake E. Lee on guitar for the second and last time with Ozzy, Randy Castillo making his debut behind the kit, and Phil Soussan on bass on his only Osbourne album. Mike Moran adds keyboards, and Ron Nevison produced and engineered.

Lee wrote it with Osbourne and Bob Daisley, and that credit was hard won. When Osbourne came back from treatment at the Betty Ford Center in 1985, Lee had a stack of music waiting, but Lee has said that after missing out on writing and publishing credit for Bark at the Moon, he held everything back this time until a contract guaranteed him both. Much of the album grew out of that music.

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