Many, many years ago, when this reporter was just a few months into his first music industry job as the assistant editor of a now-long defunct teen heavy metal magazine called Faces, he was lucky enough to be sent to interview Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary singer, cofounder of Black Sabbath and TV star who died Tuesday at the age of 76.
The interview was no small challenge: not only was Osbourne still deep in his wildman-of-rock-and-roll phase, the subject was the “Tribute” album, a live concert recording featuring Randy Rhoads, the brilliant guitarist and cowriter on Osbourne’s first two solo albums, “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Diary of a
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