OZZY OSBOURNE - ＂Crazy Train＂

What this video is

Released on 10 February 1987 as the sole single from the live album Tribute, this video arrived five years after the death of virtuoso guitarist Randy Rhoads in a 1982 plane crash. The song's Cold War-era lyrical anxiety, originally recorded in 1981, resonated in the mid-1980s Reagan-era geopolitical climate. The video functions simultaneously as a performance document and a posthumous memorial to Rhoads,…

Why it matters

Represents a foundational document of the NWOBHM-influenced American heavy metal canon. The song originated Ozzy's solo career on Blizzard of Ozz (1980), and this 1987 video re-anchored it as a cultural monument following Rhoads' death. The experimental photo-negative and archival-integration…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American music video and film director. A University of California, Santa Barbara alumnus, he was inspired by David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' to enter the field. He has directed over 150 music videos…