Goodbye to Romance

This song is about Ozzy's split from Black Sabbath. After recording seven albums with the group, he left the group after a nasty spat with their guitarist Tony Iommi. It was an emotional time for Ozzy, and he was not sure he would be successful on his own. He ended up selling a lot more records as a solo artist than the version of Sabbath that carried on without him. He also became an unlikely media mogul, with his own festival (Ozzfest), reality TV show (The Osbournes) and column in Rolling Stone ("Ask Dr. Ozzy"). Ozzy would reunite with Sabbath several times, including a Live Aid appearance. Ozzy's wife and manager, Sharon, said that he would miss his Sabbath mates when he played without them.

Osbourne wrote this song with bass player Bob Daisley and guitarist Randy Rhoads. Daisley wrote the lion's share of the lyrics for the Blizzard of Ozz album, but Osbourne came up with the title for this one and some of the lines. Daisley says that he filled in the rest of the words, writing them to encourage Ozzy and help him look forward to his post-Sabbath career. In our interview with Daisley, he said: "Ozzy was fairly easy to work with. He was a bit down at first, because he'd just been fired from Black Sabbath and he was depressed and he was unsure of himself. It really damaged his confidence, being fired from Black Sabbath."

The title came from a line in the 1957 Everly Brothers song "Bye Bye Love": She was my baby till he stepped in Goodbye to romance that might have been Ozzy was big fan of early Pop acts like the Everly Brothers. The Beatles were one of his favorites.