Ozzy Osbourne punch to the jaw. On leaving Sabbath, Osbourne recalled, "I'd got £96,000 for my share of the name, so I'd just locked myself away and spent three months doing coke and booze. My thinking was, 'This is my last party, because after this I'm going back to Birmingham and the dole." However, he was signed to Don Arden's Jet Records. Arden dispatched Sharon to Los Angeles to "look after Ozzy's needs, whatever they were", to protect his investment. Initially, Arden hoped Osbourne would return to Sabbath, and later attempted to convince the singer to name his new band "Son of
Badlands (American band) 1998. After touring with Ozzy Osbourne in support of the "Ultimate Sin" album, Lee was fired in a phone call from Sharon Osbourne that he received while working on one of his muscle cars back in Los Angeles. Lee set about looking for a charismatic front man with which to launch a new band. He met Ray Gillen, a vocalist who had recently worked with Black Sabbath for a short time. Within weeks, the duo had enlisted bassist Greg Chaisson, whom Lee had met during an Ozzy audition. Gillen got his former Black Sabbath bandmate Eric Singer to be the