Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford, If I Close my Eyes Forever Ford recorded this as a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, and the pair wrote the song together. Ford was once engaged to Tony Iommi, who played guitar with Osbourne in Black Sabbath. Ford, along with Joan Jett, was in the all-girl teenaged rock group The Runaways from 1975-1979. Her time with the band honed her skills as a songwriter, guitarist and performer. The song came about by accident during a night of drinking and getting stoned when Lita was being managed by Ozzys wife, Sharon. She recalled to Metal Underground: Close My Eyes Forever was a mistake. It was just me and Ozzy and Sharon hanging about in the recording studio. They showed up one day and had a housewarming present for me: a life-size duplicate of Koko the gorilla from the San Diego Zoo. It was freaking huge – I had to strap it in the front seat of my jeep to get it home. Ozzy stayed, Sharon got bored and left, and me and Ozzy had a couple of drinks and we were jamming. We started singing, messing about and we wrote Close My Eyes Forever. Next thing I knew the sun was coming up. I looked at him and went, Uh-oh, were in trouble. Sharon had been waiting all night. We were a long way from where Ozzy had to go. He said, Can you drive me home? I said, No, I cant. We were stoned out of our minds. He got into a cab and I strapped Koko into my jeep and drove home – just barely made it. And then we had this hit song. This was the only Top 10 hit of Ozzys solo career, although he did reach #4 UK with the Black Sabbath song Paranoid. Ozzys fans tended to buy entire albums instead of just the singles. This song was included on Lita Fords third solo album, Lita. Produced by Mike Chapman, it was a breakthrough for Ford, whose first hit came with the albums first single, Kiss Me Deadly. The songs charted a year apart, with Kiss Me Deadly peaking in June, 1988 and Close My Eyes Forever in June of the following year. Both songs were driven by MTV exposure, with the photogenic Ford appealing to the networks core audience of young males. Another Lita/Ozzy connection: Fords drummer, Randy Castillo, left her band to join Ozzys in 1985. #LitaFord #OzzyOsbourne #HardRock #Rock ☮☮☮☮ Dr. Psycho ☮☮☮☮
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