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Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz sold more than 5 million copies in the US, and the plan, Bob Daisley says, was 6% of every record for Ozzy and 2% each for his band. Daisley played bass and co-wrote Crazy Train, and the album was in the shops before anyone signed a contract. This week Sharon Osbourne said whoever holds Sabbath's lost tapes is "stealing our money." In the video below, Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake, who died in 2020, remember: "It wasn't actually a solo career... it was a band called the Blizzard of Ozz." Then: "They put us back on the records to resell them... Still didn't get paid." By his account, before Diary of a Madman the band asked where the first record's money was and were told to keep working. Once it was finished, Daisley and Kerslake were fired, and the sleeve showed the 2 men who replaced them. After they sued, other musicians replayed their parts on the 2002 reissues, until fans got the originals back in 2011. In 2016 Daisley sued over at least $2 million, saying Ozzy's company took 25% where he agreed to 10%. The case for Ozzy: he said Daisley had been paid millions of dollars over 36 years, audits found nothing, and the replaced parts weren't his idea. A court dismissed one suit, and in 2018 Daisley signed his US publishing back to the Osbournes' company. If the record is in the shops before your contract is signed, the other side sets your share, so sign the split first. So did the Osbournes pay a hired band fairly, or keep the share of the men who wrote and played Crazy Train? I post one famous deal like this every day, with who got paid, who got played, and the numbers that never made the poster.