Flying High Again

"Flying High Again"
Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album Diary of a Madman
B-side	"I Don't Know" (live)
Released	October 1981
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	4:44
Label	Jet Epic
Songwriter(s)	Ozzy Osbourne Randy Rhoads Bob Daisley Lee Kerslake
Producer(s)	Max Norman
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology
"Mr. Crowley" (1980) "Flying High Again" (1981) "Over the Mountain" (1982)
Music video
"Flying High Again" on YouTube

"Flying High Again" is a song by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne. Released in 1981 from his second album as a solo artist Diary of a Madman (1981). Released as a single, it reached number two on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1982.^[1]

Although the song has been assumed to be about marijuana use, Osbourne has stated that the song was inspired by his successful re-emergence as a solo artist after being fired from Black Sabbath and subsequently believing his career was over.^{[citation needed]} The song is in the key of A-flat major.^[2]

Gina Boldman of AllMusic praised guitarist Randy Rhoads for the solo in the song as one of his best. She called "Flying High Again" "a good-time heavy metal song that was hard to take seriously" but "one of Ozzy's most likable and memorable songs of his early-'80s period."^[3] In 2015, radio station 100.7 WZLX ranked it the 223rd greatest song.^[4]

An animated music video was released to YouTube on 5 November 2021 celebrating guitarist Randy Rhoads, who was killed in an airplane accident a year later following the single's release.^[5]

Personnel

• Ozzy Osbourne – lead vocals
• Randy Rhoads – guitar
• Bob Daisley – bass
• Lee Kerslake – drums

References

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