"Flying High Again"
Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album Diary of a Madman
B-side"I Don't Know (Live)"
ReleasedOctober 1981
GenreHeavy metal
Length4:44
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Max Norman
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology
"Mr. Crowley"
(1980)		 "Flying High Again"
(1981)		 "Over the Mountain"
(1982)
Animated 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. 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 singles release.[5]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Rock Tracks. Menonomee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 103. ISBN 0-89820-153-5.
  2. ↑ "Flying High Again". Musicnotes. 25 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Boldman, Gina. "Fling High Again Song Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Top 1,007 Classic Rock Countdown: 300 – 201". WZLX. December 30, 2015. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again (Official Music Video), retrieved 2022-03-03


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