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- ↑ "Thirty Years After the Blizzard" DVD interview.
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- ↑ Osbourne, Ozzy; Ayres, Chris (2009). I Am Ozzy. Grand Central Publishing. pp. 218–219, 222. ISBN 978-0-446-56989-7.
- ↑ Compton, Linda (3 March 1982). "Ozzy smashingly mediocre". The Shreveport Journal . Shreveport, Louisiana. p. 11B. Retrieved 11 February 2023– via Newspapers.com.
Bibliography
- Heritage, Gareth (2016). "'It's Like a Mach Piece, Really': Critiquing the Neo-Classical Aesthetic of '80s Heavy Metal Music". In Brown, Andy R.; Spracklen, Karl; Kahn-Harris, Keith; Scott, Niall W.R. (eds.). Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138822382.
- Walser, Robert (2014). Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (2014 ed.). Wesleyan University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0819575142.
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