Diary of a Madman Tour

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Diary of a Madman Tour
Promotional tour by Ozzy Osbourne
Osbourne onstage during the Diary of a Madman Tour, 1982
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Asia
Associated albumDiary of a Madman
Start date5 November 1981 (1981-11-05)
End date8 August 1982 (1982-08-08)
Legs1 in Europe
2 in North America
1 in Asia
4 total
No. of shows123
Ozzy Osbourne concert chronology

The Diary of a Madman Tour was the second concert tour by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne. It was undertaken in support of Osbourne's second album Diary of a Madman and covered Europe, North America, and Asia. This was Rhoads's last tour as he died in a plane crash at a small airport in Leesburg, Florida, on 19 March 1982, during the North American 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 seven shows before being replaced by future Night Ranger guitarist, Brad Gillis.

Overview[edit]

Background[edit]

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, scheduled for worldwide release on 7 November 1981. Osbourne, Rhoads, Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, and Lindsay Bridgwater reconvened at Shepperton Studios in England, where they would spend the next two weeks rehearsing.

European leg (5 November – 2 December 1981)[edit]

On 4 November 1981, the band arrived in Hamburg, West Germany, to start the tour, opening up for Saxon in Europe. The band's first show was at Ernst-Merck-Halle in front of a sold-out crowd. On 7 November, 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 13 November, after the band's performance at Upper Swabia Hall in Ravensburg, Sharon called off the rest of the European leg because of Osbourne's mental health issues resulting from his marriage to Thelma Osbourne having fallen apart. Sharon took Osbourne back to England and checked him into a mental health clinic while the rest of the band went on excursions through West Germany and France before returning to England.

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

North American leg (30 December 1981 – 19 March 1982)[edit]

After returning to Los Angeles on 5 December, the band took a break for a couple of weeks 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 the band's rehearsals for a segment on the new show. On 30 December, the band performed at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. Rhoads received the Best New Talent Award from Guitar Player.[1] The band returned 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 7 January, 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 20 January, at the Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium a fan threw a dead bat, (stolen from the science department of Lincoln, a local high school), onto the stage. Osbourne, believing it to be a toy, took the bat, held out its wings and bit it on a wing then threw it back into the audience. This resulted in him being checked into Des Moines General Hospital to receive rabies shots after the show. On 24 January at Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, Osbourne lifted Rhoads up by his right leg during "Mr. Crowley". A professional photographer captured the moment and the image was used as the cover art for the live album, Tribute. As the band played "Over the Mountain" at the Assembly Hall on their 26 January show, Osbourne collapsed during the middle of the song, and was pulled off stage by Sharon Osbourne and the rest of stage crew, while the band finished instrumentally. He was rushed to the hospital and the remainder of the show was cancelled. Osbourne was given two days to rest and heal from his illness caused by the rabies shots. The band went on to Chicago.

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

The band were on the tour bus, which was supposed to be heading to Orlando, Florida, for the Rock Super Bowl at the Tangerine Bowl on 20 March, but a mechanical problem forced it into a depot called Flying Baron Estates, outside Leesburg, Florida for repairs. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (then Sharon Arden), Rudy Sarzo, and Tommy Aldridge were all asleep on the bus while Randy Rhoads, Don Airey, tour manager Jake Duncan, the band's wardrobe/makeup artist 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 three.[2][3] Once the investigation was over on 21 March, the band returned to Los Angeles, where they spent the next two weeks trying to recuperate from the tragedy while attempting to find another guitarist.

North America and Japan (1 April – 8 August 1982)[edit]

The band, and especially Osbourne, was in a severe state of depression. Ozzy's drug and alcohol addiction and mental state had worsened. On the day of Rhoads's death, Osbourne had said that it was over and that he never wanted to play again. Sharon got Ozzy back on his feet to finish the tour for his fans. Osbourne had said: "You Can't Kill Rock 'N' Roll," when he was interviewed on Late Night with David Letterman a week after Rhoads's death. Rudy Sarzo called his younger brother, future-Hurricane lead-guitarist, Robert and asked him to audition and play the material the same way as Randy; he was hired. Another guitarist showed up to audition, former-Gillan guitarist, Bernie Tormé. He 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 unfamiliar with the material, and his playing style and feel was different from Rhoads, Tormé ended up getting the job instead of Sarzo.

On 28 March, the band flew to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for three days of rehearsals to restart the tour. On 1 April, 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 Tormé, who was eager to start his solo career, Sharon found future-Night Ranger guitarist, Brad Gillis. He did not feel ready to play onstage yet as he needed some time to learn the setlist. Tormé did several more shows with the band until Gillis was ready. On 13 April, he played with the band for the first time at Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, New York. The band finished the tour with Gillis and Tormé left to start his solo career.

After the band's performance at Glens Falls Civic Arena in New York on 10 May, Sharon put the tour on hold again as Osbourne's depression, mental illness, and drug and alcohol addiction had grown worse. The rest of the tour's shows were postponed. The band restarted the tour on 19 May 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, opening for the Canadian dates. Axe was the opening band for the West Coast shows. On 19 June, the band performed its first laser show at Oakland Arena in California. The band performed at Irvine Meadows on 25 June, where the live pro-video footage was used for Speak of the Devil Live, which was broadcast on MTV on Halloween.

On 4 July, Ozzy and Sharon got married. From 9 to 15 July, the band performed several shows in Japan. Later on 6 August, the day before the band's show at the Rock N Roll Super Bowl (1982) at The Cotton Bowl in Dallas where Le Roux was opening and the supporting acts were Loverboy and Foreigner, Osbourne'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 him to get on stage wearing a wig. Osbourne ripped the wig off his head and threw it into the audience.

Personnel[edit]


Setlists[edit]

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" (Black Sabbath Song)
  15. "Children of the Grave" (Black Sabbath Song)
  16. "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath Song) [Encore]

Tour dates[edit]

Date[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] City Country Venue
Europe
30 October 1981 Brussels Belgium Forest National
31 October 1981 Amsterdam Netherlands Jaap Edenhal
1 November 1981 Essen West Germany Grugahalle
2 November 1981 Bremen Stadthalle
3 November 1981 Kiel Ostseehalle
4 November 1981 Hanover Eilenriedehalle
5 November 1981 Hamburg Ernst-Merck-Halle
6 November 1981 Wolfsburg Wolfsburg City Hall
8 November 1981 Cologne Sporthalle
9 November 1981 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach
10 November 1981 Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
11 November 1981 Karlsruhe Schwarzwaldhalle
12 November 1981 Ravensburg Upper Swabia Hall
13 November 1981 Böblingen Sporthalle
14 November 1981 Neunkirchen Hemmerleinhalle
16 November 1981 Munich Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle
17 November 1981 Eppelheim Rhein-Neckar-Halle
19 November 1981 Dortmund Westfalenhallen
20 November 1981 Kuernach Kuernach Hall
22 November 1981 Strasbourg France Rhenus Hall
23 November 1981 Reims Reims Sports Palace
24 November 1981 Paris Hippodrome de Pantin
25 November 1981 Lille St. Sauveur Sports Palace
27 November 1981 Geneva Switzerland Champel Sports Pavilion
29 November 1981 Bristol England Colston Hall
30 November 1981 Cardiff Wales Sophia Gardens Pavilion
1 December 1981 Leicester England De Montfort Hall
2 December 1981 Liverpool Royal Court Theatre
4 December 1981 Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh Playhouse
5 December 1981 Glasgow The Apollo
6 December 1981 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall
7 December 1981
18 December 1981 Manchester Apollo
19 December 1981 Leeds Queens Hall
22 December 1981 Stafford New Bingley Hall
23 December 1981 Leicester De Montfort Hall
24 December 1981 London Hammersmith Odeon
26 December 1981
North America
30 December 1981 Daly City United States Cow Palace
31 December 1981 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
1 January 1982 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
3 January 1982 Fresno Selland Arena
4 January 1982 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
6 January 1982 Tucson Tucson Community Center
7 January 1982 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
9 January 1982 Salt Lake City Salt Palace
10 January 1982 Boulder CU Events Center
12 January 1982 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
13 January 1982 Kansas City Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
15 January 1982 Bloomington Metropolitan Sports Center
17 January 1982 Duluth Duluth Arena
19 January 1982 La Crosse La Crosse Center
20 January 1982 Des Moines Iowa Veterans Memorial Auditorium
22 January 1982 Milwaukee MECCA Arena
23 January 1982 Madison Dane County Expo Coliseum
24 January 1982 Rosemont Rosemont Horizon
26 January 1982 Champaign Assembly Hall
27 January 1982 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
29 January 1982 Terre Haute Hulman Center
30 January 1982 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
31 January 1982 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
2 February 1982 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena
3 February 1982 Charleston Charleston Civic Center
5 February 1982 Lansing Lansing Civic Center
6 February 1982 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
8 February 1982 Detroit Cobo Arena
9 February 1982 Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
11 February 1982 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
12 February 1982 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
13 February 1982 Lexington Rupp Arena
15 February 1982 Beaumont Fair Park Coliseum
17 February 1982 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
19 February 1982 San Antonio HemisFair Arena
20 February 1982 Dallas Reunion Arena
21 February 1982 Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
23 February 1982 El Paso El Paso County Coliseum
24 February 1982 Lubbock Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
25 February 1982 Norman Lloyd Noble Center
27 February 1982 Valley Center Britt Brown Arena
28 February 1982 Amarillo Amarillo Civic Center
2 March 1982 Shreveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
3 March 1982 Baton Rouge Riverside Centroplex
5 March 1982 Pine Bluff Pine Bluff Convention Center
6 March 1982 Birmingham Boutwell Memorial Auditorium
17 March 1982 Atlanta The Omni Coliseum
18 March 1982 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Coliseum
20 March 1982 Orlando The Tangerine Bowl
21 March 1982 Miami Miami Orange Bowl
24 March 1982 Landover Capital Centre
25 March 1982 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
26 March 1982 Philadelphia Spectrum
28 March 1982 Hempstead Nassau Coliseum
29 March 1982 East Rutherford Meadowlands Arena
30 March 1982 Hartford Hartford Civic Arena
North America
1 April 1982 Bethlehem United States Stabler Arena
2 April 1982 Boston Boston Garden
3 April 1982 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
5 April 1982 New York City Madison Square Garden
6 April 1982 Providence Providence Civic Center
9 April 1982 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
10 April 1982 Rochester Rochester Community War Memorial
13 April 1982 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
15 April 1982 Fort Wayne Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
16 April 1982 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium
17 April 1982 Louisville Freedom Hall
19 April 1982 Erie Erie County Field House
20 April 1982 Hampton Hampton Coliseum
21 April 1982 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
23 April 1982 Johnson City Freedom Hall Civic Center
24 April 1982 Landover Capital Centre
25 April 1982 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Center
26 April 1982 Philadelphia The Spectrum
28 April 1982 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
29 April 1982 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium
30 April 1982 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
1 May 1982 Fayetteville Cumberland County Memorial Arena
3 May 1982 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
4 May 1982 Wheeling Wheeling Civic Center
5 May 1982 Greenville Greenville Memorial Auditorium
6 May 1982 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum
9 May 1982 Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial
10 May 1982 Glens Falls Glens Falls Civic Center
19 May 1982 South Yarmouth Cape Cod Coliseum
21 May 1982 Hartford Hartford Civic Center
22 May 1982 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center
23 May 1982 East Rutherford Brendan Byrne Arena
25 May 1982 Columbus Columbus Fairgrounds Coliseum
26 May 1982 Trotwood Hara Arena
27 May 1982 Springfield Prairie Capital Convention Center
28 May 1982 Hoffman Estates Poplar Creek Music Theater
29 May 1982 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre
30 May 1982 Charlevoix Castle Farms Music Theatre
31 May 1982 Ann Arbor Crisler Arena
2 June 1982 Ottawa Canada Ottawa Civic Centre
3 June 1982 Montreal Montreal Forum
4 June 1982 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
6 June 1982 Winnipeg Winnipeg Arena
7 June 1982 Regina Agridome
8 June 1982 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum
9 June 1982 Calgary Stampede Corral
10 June 1982 Vancouver Pacific Coliseum
12 June 1982 Anchorage United States Anchorage High School Auditorium
15 June 1982 Seattle Seattle Center Coliseum
16 June 1982 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
17 June 1982 Portland Portland Memorial Coliseum
19 June 1982 Oakland Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
20 June 1982 Bakersfield Bakersfield Convention Center
22 June 1982 Reno Reno Centennial Coliseum
24 June 1982 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
25 June 1982 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
28 June 1982 Honolulu Honolulu International Center
Asia
9 July 1982 Osaka Japan Festival Hall
11 July 1982 Nagoya Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall
13 July 1982 Kyoto Kyoto Kaikan
14 July 1982 Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza Hall
15 July 1982
North America
1 August 1982 Inglewood United States The Forum
7 August 1982 Dallas Cotton Bowl
8 August 1982 New Orleans Tad Gormley Stadium

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