Flying High Again

"Flying High Again"
Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album Diary of a Madman
B-side	"I Don't Know (Live)"
Released	10 October 1981
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	4:44
Label	Jet, Epic
Songwriter(s)	Ozzy Osbourne; Randy Rhoads; Bob Daisley; Lee Kerslake;
Producer(s)	Max Norman
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology

"Flying High Again" is a song by British heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, from his 1981 album Diary of a Madman. 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 cannabis 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 Ab minor.

Gina Boldman of Allmusic praised Randy Rhoads's guitar 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."[2] In 2015, radio station 100.7 WZLX ranked it the 223rd greatest song.[3]

Personnel

References

Whitburn, Joel (2002). Rock Tracks. Menonomee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 103. ISBN 0-89820-153-5.
Boldman, Gina. "Fling High Again Song Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
"Top 1,007 Classic Rock Countdown: 300 – 201". WZLX. December 30, 2015. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2020.

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[1] Whitburn, Joel (2002). Rock Tracks. Menonomee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 103. ISBN 0-89820-153-5.

[2] Boldman, Gina. "Fling High Again Song Review". Allmusic. Retrieved August 22, 2020.

[3] "Top 1,007 Classic Rock Countdown: 300 – 201". WZLX. December 30, 2015. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2020.