Record Store Day recently announced the appointment of Ozzy Osbourne as the Record Store Day Ambassador 2011.
Record Store Day is managed by the Music Monitor Network and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and celebrates the culture of independent record stores by playing host to in-store events/performances, signings and special product releases on a global scale.
"I'm very honored," Ozzy tells USA Today. "I just wish I could find a record store."
Ozzy fans who come out to support Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16 will have the first chance to purchase a special seven-inch vinyl single of "Diary Of A Madman"'s "Flying High Again" (with a live version of "I Don't Know" as the B-side), along with full-length vinyl versions of the newly expanded 30th anniversary editions of his "Blizzard Of Ozz" and "Diary Of A Madman" albums.
"If you don't listen to vinyl for a while and you hear it again, it sounds much better," says Osbourne.
"It's exciting that young bands are making records on vinyl," he says. "The big corporations make everything so miniaturized. And when you buy the iPod or the iPad or the i-whatever, six months later it's obsolete and you have to buy a new gadget."
According to Ozzy, the first album he ever bought was "With The Beatles".
"In the early '60s, England was still recovering from the war and THE BEATLES brought this magic," he tells USA Today. "I still listen to them. I always go back to PINK FLOYD. I do try to listen to newer stuff, but it's not really new. The original stuff was written by cotton pickers in the '30s. If it tickles my spine, I listen. When I'm writing, if the hair on my arm stands up, I think, oh, it's good. I don't work it out mathematically."
Record Store Day takes place annually on the third Saturday of April.
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Record Store Day is managed by the Music Monitor Network and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and celebrates the culture of independent record stores by playing host to in-store events/performances, signings and special product releases on a global scale.
"I'm very honored," Ozzy tells USA Today. "I just wish I could find a record store."
Ozzy fans who come out to support Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16 will have the first chance to purchase a special seven-inch vinyl single of "Diary Of A Madman"'s "Flying High Again" (with a live version of "I Don't Know" as the B-side), along with full-length vinyl versions of the newly expanded 30th anniversary editions of his "Blizzard Of Ozz" and "Diary Of A Madman" albums.
"If you don't listen to vinyl for a while and you hear it again, it sounds much better," says Osbourne.
"It's exciting that young bands are making records on vinyl," he says. "The big corporations make everything so miniaturized. And when you buy the iPod or the iPad or the i-whatever, six months later it's obsolete and you have to buy a new gadget."
According to Ozzy, the first album he ever bought was "With The Beatles".
"In the early '60s, England was still recovering from the war and THE BEATLES brought this magic," he tells USA Today. "I still listen to them. I always go back to PINK FLOYD. I do try to listen to newer stuff, but it's not really new. The original stuff was written by cotton pickers in the '30s. If it tickles my spine, I listen. When I'm writing, if the hair on my arm stands up, I think, oh, it's good. I don't work it out mathematically."
Record Store Day takes place annually on the third Saturday of April.
Read more from USA Today.
More...
