As reported by Sky News earlier this month, the recording was discovered in the attic of David Jolly, who befriended Ozzy after a turbulent period saw him fired by Black Sabbath and had started to put together his solo band.
“As soon as I heard it, I thought, ‘Yes, that’s us, that’s Ozzy’s voice,'” he said. “I don’t know if we were auditioning a drummer and just loosening up a bit, or we’re just clowning about… but it wasn’t a song we were working on because we had definite songs by then, we had several songs.”
Recently an obscure Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna duet ‘Shake Your Head’ unearthed. The song was later released with Kim Basinger's vocals in place of Madonna’s
The song in question was brought to light in a rare interview with Ozzy’s eldest son, Louis, whose mother is Thelma Riley, the first wife of the Black Sabbath icon.
In a new interview on his half-brother Jack Osbourne’s Trying Not to Die podcast, the two spoke about their late father and opened up about a long-lost song that saw his vocals feature alongside those of Madonna.
Called ‘Shake Your Head’ the song is a remix of the track by the American band Was (Not Was), which was first released with Kim Basinger’s vocals in place of Madonna’s.
In the interview, Louis shared how when the song was written in the early ‘80s, when Madonna had not yet become a household name, and added the song was not originally meant to feature Ozzy.
“Was (Not Was) did a duet with Madonna,” he shared. “It was written for Madonna and Was (Not Was) […then Ozzy was brought in] and she really fucking popped [in popularity] and then didn’t give approval on the record.”
He continued: “So that was canned. And then when Kim Basinger was having that big acting moment in the middle of her career in the ’80s, they decided they were going to try and make her a pop star, as well. So they tracked Kim Basinger on it instead.”
