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10. Ozzy Osbourne's Breakfast Orders On "Crazy Train"

Ozzy Osbourne's solo career really took off after the success of "Crazy Train." With the help of guitar god Randy Rhoads, The Prince of Darkness fully distanced himself from his Black Sabbath past and blossomed into his own separate entity. That doesn't mean everything that he did was serious though.

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Shortly before the fade of Osbourne's biggest hit, there is a tiny sped-up voice that most fans believe is meant to mimic some kind of demonic child. While it's certainly up to interpretation what the message is, the actual meaning has more to do with Ozzy's dietary habits then, say, witchcraft. As the band were finishing up the recording, they had decided to add on the extended voice but were unsure of what it would say. After going through so many different ideas, the producer just stuck a microphone in front of an engineer and asked him what he had eaten for breakfast that morning.

The man's answer of "an egg" can be heard ever so slightly on the extended motif at the end of the track. Though Ozzy may have been holding onto his more sinister reputation, there was always a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor to the madman's recording processes.

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