Mama, I'm Coming Home

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"Mama, I'm Coming Home"
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Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album No More Tears
B-side "Don't Blame Me"
Released18 November 1991 (UK) [1]
February 1992 (1992-02) (US)
Recorded1991
Genre
Length4:11
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
[3] [4]
Producer(s)
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology
"Road to Nowhere"
(1991)
"Mama, I'm Coming Home"
(1991)
"Mr. Tinkertrain"
(1991)
Music video
"Mama, I’m Coming Home" on YouTube
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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"Mama, I'm Coming Home" is a power ballad by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne from Osbourne's sixth studio album No More Tears , which first released on 17 November 1991. The song features Osbourne on vocals, Zakk Wylde on guitar, Bob Daisley on bass, and Randy Castillo on drums. Lyrics were written by Lemmy, and the song was produced by Tom Fletcher. Two music videos were also produced to accompany the song's release.

Contents

The single is Osbourne's only solo Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 28; his only other top 40 hits being his duet with Lita Ford, "Close My Eyes Forever", and his feature on the 2019 Post Malone song "Take What You Want", both of which peaked at number 8. [5] It also reached number 2 on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock Tracks.

Background

As Zakk Wylde recalled in a 2022 interview, "I remember me and Ozzy originally did that on a piano in my apartment in North Hollywood...I transposed it to guitar when we got in the studio when we were working on the record, and then y'know it sounded great...the song started off with the pedal steel kind of thing. I mean it just sounded great...I mean everybody's performances and everything like that but I mean just the overall sound of it – the guys knocked it out of the park for sure." [6]

Music videos

Two music videos were created for the single. The first was a surreal video that Osbourne disliked because he felt the video's plot did not match the song's concept. A second music video was then created with Samuel Bayer as its director, which subsequently augmented Osbourne's interest. Osbourne compared the effects in the second video to the hazy smoke effect seen in the video for Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which was also directed by Bayer.

Personnel

Reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of music website AllMusic called the song "a very good hard rock ballad and one of his finest singles". [3]

Charts

Chart (1992–1993)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [7] 42
Germany (Official German Charts) [8] 27
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [9] 48
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [10] 62
UK Singles (OCC) [11] 32
US Billboard Hot 100 [12] 28
US Mainstream Rock [13] 2

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [14] Platinum80,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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