Diary of a Madman Tour

Diary of a Madman Tour
Promotional tour by Ozzy Osbourne
Associated album Diary of a Madman
Start date November 5, 1981 (1981-11-05)
End date August 8, 1982 (1982-08-08)
Legs 1 in Europe
2 in North America
1 in Asia
4 total
No. of shows 10 in Europe
108 in North America
5 in Sdis/
123 total
Ozzy Osbourne concert chronology

The Diary of a Madman Tour was the second concert tour by English heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. The tour was in support of Ozzy and Randy Rhoads's second album Diary of a Madman and covered Europe, North America and Asia. This was Rhoads's last tour since he was killed in a plane crash at a small airport in Leesburg, Florida, on March 19, 1982 during the first leg of the tour. The band took a two-week break after his death. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne restarted the tour with ex-Gillan guitarist Bernie Tormé, who only performed a couple of shows before being replaced by future-Night Ranger guitarist, Brad Gillis.

Overview

Background

After the Blizzard of Ozz Tour, the band took a one-month break before going to Europe to start the tour supporting the upcoming album, Diary of a Madman, which was scheduled to be released worldwide on November 7, 1981. Ozzy, Rhoads, Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, and Lindsay Bridgwater reconvened at Shepperton Studios in England where they would spend the next two weeks rehearsing

Europe leg

On November 4, 1981, the band arrived in Hamburg, Germany to start the tour, opening up for Saxon in Europe. The band's first show at Ernst-Merck-Halle in front of a sold-out crowd. On November 7, Diary of a Madman was released worldwide and "Flying High Again", "Over the Mountain", "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" and "Diary of a Madman" were released as singles. On November 13, after the band's performance at Upper Swabia Hall in Ravensburg, Sharon called off the rest of the Europe leg because of Ozzy's mental health issues because of his marriage with Thelma Osbourne having fallen apart. Sharon took Ozzy back to England and had him checked into a mental health clinic while the rest of the went on excursions throughout Germany and France before going back to England.

On November 22, the rest of the band reconvened at Shepperton Studios to begin pre-production rehearsals for the United Kingdom dates while Ozzy was in the hospital. The band rehearsed songs off of Blizzard of Ozz, the three Black Sabbath songs they had already been performing, "Over the Mountain," "Flying High Again" and "Believer" from Diary of a Madman. On November 29, with opening act Girl, the band performed at Colston Hall in Bristol. On December 2, the band performed its last show of the leg at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. The rest of the European leg was cancelled because of Ozzy's depression.

North American leg (December 1981–March 19, 1982)

After returning to Los Angeles on December 5, the band took a break for a couple weeks break and then began pre-production rehearsals. Lindsay Bridgwater departed at this time and Don Airey, former keyboardist of Rainbow was hired. In December, Entertainment Tonight taped some video footage of their rehearsals for a segment of the new show. On December 30, the band performed at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. Rhoads received the Best New Talent Award from Guitar Player. The band headed back to Los Angeles for their last show at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. English hard rock and heavy metal band UFO and Starfighters were added to the bill as the opening bands. On January 7, the band played at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque. The local news filmed the first part of the show where the band performed "Over the Mountain" and "Mr. Crowley."

On January 20 at the Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium a fan threw a live bat onto the stage and Ozzy, believing it to be a toy, bit the bat's head off and spit it out on stage causing him to be checked into a local hospital to receive rabies shots. On January 24 at Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, Ozzy lifted Rhoads up by his right leg during "Mr. Crowley" when a professional photographer captured the moment on camera and was used as the album cover for the live album, Tribute. On January 26, as the band played "Over the Mountain" at the Assembly Hall, Ozzy collapsed during the middle of the song, was pulled off stage by Sharon and the rest of stage crew while the band finished instrumentally, was rushed to the hospital and the remainder of the show was cancelled. Ozzy was given two days to rest and heal from sickness from the rabies shots while the band went to Chicago.

On February 2, before the band's performance at Civic Arena, Rhoads did a guitar seminar at the "Music City" Record Store in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. On February 11, after playing at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, tensions between Ozzy and Rhoads grew as Rhoads did not want to play on the live record that would consist of Black Sabbath songs as he felt it would be a major step backward in his career, but the record company forced Ozzy and Sharon to release the album. On February 16, the band performed at Fair Park Coliseum in Beaumont, Texas, where the soundcheck rehearsal that took place earlier that day was captured on video. On February 19, Sharon hid all of Ozzy's clothes so that he could not drink anymore, but Ozzy put on Sharon's nightgown, got drunk, urinated on The Alamo and was arrested. He was released hours before the show since Sharon warned the police that the concert promoters were worried that not releasing Ozzy from jail would cause the cancellation of that evening's performance and possibly incite a riot. After Ozzy was released, they performed at the San Antonio Convention Center Arena. Ozzy became "Public Enemy #1" in Texas and received death threats from parents, religious groups and political activists. On February 20, before that evening's performance at Reunion Arena, Rhoads agreed to play on the live album, one more studio album and tour with Ozzy, and then he would leave to go to the University of California, Los Angeles to get his master's degree for classical guitar. On March 18, the band performed in front of a sold-out crowd at Knoxville Civic Coliseum.

The band had gotten onto the tour bus, which was supposed to be heading to Orlando, Florida for the Rock Super Bowl at the Tangerine Bowl on March 20, but a problem with the bus forced it to a depot called Flying Baron Estates, outside of Leesburg, Florida for repairs. Ozzy, Sharon, Rudy and Tommy were all asleep while Randy, Don, tour manager Jake Duncan, Rhoad's hairdresser Rachel Youngblood, bus driver Andrew Aycock and his wife Wanda and the rest of the crew were awake. On the property, there was an airstrip and a hangar full of small airplanes. Aycock, who claimed to be an experienced pilot, took a Beechcraft Bonanza F35 plane out of the hangar and offered to take people up in the air. During one of the flights with Aycock, Rhoads, and Youngblood, the left wing struck the bus causing the plane to crash, instantly killing all on board. Once the investigation was over on March 21, the band returned to Los Angeles where they would spend the next two weeks trying to recuperate from the tragedy while trying to look for another guitarist.

North American leg (1982)

The band was in a severe state of depression, especially Ozzy, whose drug and alcohol addiction and mental state had grown worse. Originally, on the day of Randy's passing, Ozzy said that it was over and that he never wanted to play again, but Sharon got Ozzy back on his feet by finishing the tour for the fans since "You Can't Kill Rock 'N' Roll," which is what Ozzy said when he was interviewed on the Late Night with David Letterman one week after Randy's death. Rudy called his younger brother, future-Hurricane lead-guitarist, Robert Sarzo and asked him to audition and play the material the same as Randy and was hired. Another guitarist had shown up to audition, former-Gillan guitarist, Bernie Tormé, who had been hired and given an advance by Sharon's father, Don Arden, and even though his audition did not go smoothly, because he was not familiar with the material as well as his style, feel and way of playing being different from Randy's, Bernie ended up getting the job instead of Robert.

On March 28, the band flew to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for three days of rehearsals to restart the tour. On April 1, the band restarted the tour at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem. UFO was back as an opening act in Bethlehem, and Magnum was added during the following five show stint at Philadelphia's Spectrum. After the Philadelphia shows with Bernie, who was eager to start his solo career, Sharon found future-Night Ranger guitarist, Brad Gillis, though he did not feel ready to play onstage yet as he needed some time to learn the setlist, Bernie did several more shows with the band until Brad was ready. On April 13, Brad played with the band for the first time at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, New York. The band finished with Brad and Bernie left to get his solo career started.

On May 10, after the band's performance at Glens Falls Civic Arena in New York, Sharon put the tour on hold again as Ozzy's depression, mental illness, and drug and alcohol addiction had grown worse, so the rest of the tour's shows were postponed. The band restarted the tour on May 19 at Cape Cod Coliseum in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts with Magnum as the opening band for the east coast and midwest shows and the Canadian band, Santers, would be the opening band for the Canadian shows, and "Axe" would be the opening band for the west coast shows. On June 19, the band performed its 1st laser show at Oakland Arena in California. On June 25, the band performed at Irvine Meadows, where the live pro-video footage was used for Speak of the Devil Live, which was broadcast on MTV on Halloween.

On July 4, Ozzy and Sharon got married. From July 9 to 15, the band performed several shows in Japan. Later on August 6, the day before the band's show at the Rock N Roll Super Bowl (1982) at The Cotton Bowl in Dallas where Le Roux would open and supporting acts Loverboy and Foreigner, Ozzy's depression had grown even worse and not wanting to do more shows, he shaved his head completely. This did not stop Sharon from forcing Ozzy to get on stage with a wig, but Ozzy ripped the wig off his head and threw it on the audience.

Personnel

European line-up
  • Ozzy Osbourne — vocals
  • Randy Rhoads — guitar
  • Rudy Sarzo — bass
  • Tommy Aldridge — drums
  • Lindsay Bridgewater — keyboards

North America line-up


North America line-up
  • Ozzy Osbourne — vocals
  • Bernie Tormé — guitar
  • Rudy Sarzo — bass
  • Tommy Aldridge — drums
  • Don Airey — keyboards

Speak of the Devil line-up
  • Ozzy Osbourne — vocals
  • Brad Gillis — guitar
  • Rudy Sarzo — bass
  • Tommy Aldridge — drums
  • Don Airey — keyboards

Setlists

Europe setlist

"Diary of a Madman" (Intro/Outro) [Audio introduction]

  1. "Over the Mountain"
  2. "Flying High Again"
  3. "Believer"
  4. "Crazy Train"
  5. "Mr. Crowley"
  6. "I Don't Know"
  7. "Revelation Mother Earth"
  8. "Suicide Solution"
  9. Randy Rhoads guitar solo and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Instrumental band jam)
  10. Tommy Aldridge drum solo and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Instrumental band jam) [Reprise]
  11. "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover)
  12. "Steal Away the Night" [Encore]

Main setlist

"Diary of a Madman" (Intro/Outro) [Audio Introduction]

  1. "Over the Mountain"
  2. "Mr. Crowley"
  3. "Crazy Train"
  4. "Revelation Mother Earth"
  5. "Steal Away the Night"
  6. "Suicide Solution"
  7. Randy Rhoads/Bernie Tormé/Brad Gillis Guitar Solo and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Instrumental band jam)
  8. Tommy Aldridge drum solo and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" (Instrumental band jam) [Reprise]
  9. "Goodbye to Romance"
  10. "I Don't Know"
  11. "No Bone Movies"
  12. "Believer"
  13. "Flying High Again"
  14. "Iron Man" + "Children of the Grave"
    (Black Sabbath Songs)
  15. "Paranoid" ("Black Sabbath" Song) [Encore]

Tour dates

Date[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] City Country Venue
Europe
October 30, 1981 Brussels Belgium Forest National
October 31, 1981 Amsterdam Netherlands Jaap Edenhal
November 1, 1981 Essen Germany Grugahalle
November 2, 1981 Bremen ÖVB Arena
November 3, 1981 Kiel Sparkassen-Arena
November 4, 1981 Hanover Eilenriedehalle
November 5, 1981 Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle
November 6, 1981 Wolfsburg Wolfsburg City Hall
November 8, 1981 Cologne Sporthalle
November 9, 1981 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach
November 10, 1981 Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
November 11, 1981 Karlsruhe Black Forest Hall
November 12, 1981 Ravensburg Upper Swabia Hall
November 13, 1981 Böblingen Sporthalle
November 14, 1981 Neunkirchen Hemmerleinhalle
November 16, 1981 Munich Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
November 17, 1981 Eppelheim Rhein-Neckar-Halle
November 19, 1981 Dortmund Westfalenhallen
November 20, 1981 Kuernach Kuernach Hall
November 22, 1981 Strasbourg France Rhenus Hall
November 23, 1981 Reims Reims Sports Palace
November 24, 1981 Paris Hippodrome de Pantin
November 25, 1981 Lille St. Sauveur Sports Palace
November 27, 1981 Geneva Switzerland Champel Sports Pavilion
November 29, 1981 Bristol England Colston Hall
November 30, 1981 Cardiff Wales Sophia Gardens Pavilion
December 1, 1981 Leicester England De Montfort Hall
December 2, 1981 Liverpool Royal Court Theatre (Lindsay's last show)
December 4, 1981 Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh Playhouse
December 5, 1981 Glasgow The Apollo
December 6, 1981 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
December 7, 1981
December 18, 1981 Manchester Apollo
December 19, 1981 Leeds Queens Hall
December 22, 1981 Stafford New Bingley Hall
December 23, 1981 Leicester De Montfort Hall
December 24, 1981 London Hammersmith Odeon
December 26, 1981
North America (1st leg)
December 30, 1981 Daly City United States Cow Palace
(Randy receives Guitar Magazine's "Best New Talent of 1981" Award backstage before the show) (Don Airey's 1st show)
December 31, 1981 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
January 1, 1982 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
January 3, 1982 Fresno Selland Arena
January 4, 1982 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
January 6, 1982 Tucson Tucson Community Center Arena
January 7, 1982 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
January 9, 1982 Salt Lake City Salt Palace
January 10, 1982 Boulder CU Events/Conference Center Arena
January 12, 1982 Omaha Omaha Civic Arena
January 13, 1982 Kansas City Kansas City Municipal Arena
January 15, 1982 Bloomington Met Center
January 17, 1982 Duluth Duluth Arena
January 19, 1982 La Crosse La Crosse Center
January 20, 1982 Des Moines Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium
(Ozzy bites the head off a bat!)
January 22, 1982 Milwaukee MECCA Arena
January 23, 1982 Madison Dane County Veterans Memorial Coliseum
January 24, 1982 Rosemont Rosemont Horizon (Tribute cover photo shot here)
January 26, 1982 Champaign Assembly Hall
(Cancelled after Ozzy collapsed during "Over the Mountain")
January 27, 1982 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
January 29, 1982 Terre Haute Hulman Center
January 30, 1982 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
January 31, 1982 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
February 2, 1982 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
February 3, 1982 Charleston Charleston Civic Coliseum
February 5, 1982 Lansing Lansing Civic Center
February 6, 1982 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
February 8, 1982 Detroit Cobo Center
February 9, 1982 Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
February 11, 1982 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
February 12, 1982 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
February 13, 1982 Lexington Rupp Arena
February 15, 1982 Beaumont Fair Park Coliseum
February 17, 1982 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
February 19, 1982 San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center Arena
(Ozzy arrested for urinating on The Alamo earlier that day!)
February 20, 1982 Dallas Reunion Arena
February 21, 1982 Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
February 23, 1982 El Paso El Paso County Coliseum
February 24, 1982 Lubbock Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
February 25, 1982 Norman Lloyd Noble Center
February 27, 1982 Valley Center Britt Brown Arena
February 28, 1982 Amarillo Amarillo Civic Center
March 2, 1982 Shreveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
March 3, 1982 Baton Rouge Baton Rouge River Center Arena
March 5, 1982 Pine Bluff Pine Bluff Convention Center
March 6, 1982 Birmingham Boutwell Memorial Auditorium
March 17, 1982 Atlanta Omni Coliseum
March 18, 1982 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Coliseum (Randy Rhoads's last show)
March 20, 1982 Orlando The Tangerine Bowl (Rock Super Bowl XIV Orlando)
March 21, 1982 Miami Miami Orange Bowl (Rock Super Bowl XIV Miami)
March 24, 1982 Landover Capital Centre
March 25, 1982 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
March 26, 1982 Philadelphia Spectrum
March 28, 1982 Hempstead Nassau Coliseum
March 29, 1982 East Rutherford Meadowlands Arena
March 30, 1982 Hartford Hartford Civic Arena
North America (2nd leg)
April 1, 1982 Bethlehem United States Stabler Arena (Bernie Tormé's 1st Show)
April 2, 1982 Boston Boston Garden
April 3, 1982 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
April 5, 1982 New York City "Madison Square Garden" Arena
April 7, 1982 Providence Providence Civic Arena
April 9, 1982 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
April 10, 1982 Rochester Rochester Community War Memorial Arena (Bernie's last show)
April 11, 1982 Glens Falls Glens Falls Civic Arena
April 13, 1982 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena (Brad Gillis's first show)
April 15, 1982 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
April 16, 1982 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium
April 17, 1982 Louisville Freedom Hall
April 19, 1982 Roanoke Roanoke Civic Arena
April 20, 1982 Hampton Hampton Coliseum
April 21, 1982 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
April 23, 1982 Johnson City Freedom Hall Civic Center
April 24, 1982 Landover Capital Centre
April 25, 1982 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Arena
April 26, 1982 Philadelphia The Spectrum
April 28, 1982 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
April 29, 1982 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium
April 30, 1982 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
May 1, 1982 Fayetteville Cumberland County Memorial Arena
May 3, 1982 Hempstead Nassau Coliseum
May 4, 1982 Wheeling Wheeling Civic Arena
May 5, 1982 Greenville Greenville Memorial Auditorium
May 6, 1982 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum
May 8, 1982 Erie Erie County Field House
May 9, 1982 Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial Arena
May 10, 1982 Glens Falls Glens Falls Civic Arena
May 19, 1982 South Yarmouth Cape Cod Coliseum
May 21, 1982 Hartford Hartford Civic Arena
May 22, 1982 Portland Cumberland County Civic Arena
May 23, 1982 East Rutherford Meadowlands Arena
May 25, 1982 Columbus Columbus Fairgrounds Coliseum
May 26, 1982 Trotwood Hara Arena
May 27, 1982 Springfield Prairie Capital Convention Center
May 28, 1982 Hoffman Estates Poplar Creek Music Theater
May 29, 1982 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre
May 30, 1982 Charlevoix Castle Farms
May 31, 1982 Ann Arbor Crisler Center
June 2, 1982 Ottawa Canada Ottawa Civic Arena
June 3, 1982 Montreal Montreal Forum
June 4, 1982 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
June 6, 1982 Winnipeg Winnipeg Arena
June 7, 1982 Regina Agridome
June 8, 1982 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum
June 9, 1982 Calgary Stampede Corral
June 10, 1982 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum
June 12, 1982 Anchorage United States Anchorage High School Auditorium (Two shows)
June 15, 1982 Seattle Seattle Coliseum
June 16, 1982 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
June 17, 1982 Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum
June 19, 1982 Oakland Oakland Arena (First laser show)
June 20, 1982 Bakersfield Bakersfield Convention Center Arena
June 22, 1982 Reno Reno-Sparks Convention Center
June 24, 1982 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
June 25, 1982 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre (Speak of the Devil)
June 28, 1982 Honolulu Honolulu International Center Arena
Asia
July 9, 1982 Osaka Japan Festival Hall
July 11, 1982 Nagoya Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall
July 13, 1982 Kyoto Kyoto Kaikan
July 14, 1982 Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Hall
July 15, 1982
North America (Final leg)
August 1, 1982 Inglewood United States The Forum
August 7, 1982 Dallas Cotton Bowl (Rock 'N' Roll Super Bowl)
August 8, 1982 New Orleans Tad Gormley Stadium (Superstar Sunday) (Don's last show)

References

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