The seismic collaboration also features Steve Stevens
Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Stevens guest on “Crack Cocaine,” the newly released single from Billy Morrison’s new solo album, The Morrison Project, due April 19th via The Label Group’s partnership with TLG|ZOID through Virgin Music Group. This seismic collaboration was co-written by the three who all appear in the video with Paris Jackson playing the glamorous/romantic interest, with cameos from visual artist Risk and actor Jeff Hilliard.
“Crack Cocaine” marks the first new song with Osbourne on vocals since the 2022 release of his worldwide smash album Patient Number 9 which earned him two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Metal Performance.
“I was in the same room as Billy and Steve,” Osbourne shares about co-writing the song. “The lyrics just came out of the blue. It was written in about 20 minutes.”
Morrison—the British guitarist, singer, and songwriter primarily known as Billy Idol’s rhythm guitar player for the past 15 years alongside lead guitarist Steve Stevens—sheds more light on the song’s origins: “The music was a direct result of sitting in a room with Steve, both with de-tuned guitars and writing what we felt was an ultimate Ozzy riff. From there, we brought Ozzy over, and we all sat around working on the lyrics, but 90% of those came from Ozzy himself. He’s the one that suddenly stood up and sang “Like Crack Cocaine”!! We looked at each other and knew we had the title!!”
The Morrison Project is Morrison’s third solo album and first since 2015. He has assembled an electrifying 12 songs including guest performances by Osbourne, Billy Idol, DMC, Al Jourgensen, Steve Vai, Steve Stevens, Linda Perry, Tommy Clufetos, John5, and more.
The album was produced by Billy Morrison, mixed by Barry Pointer, and mastered by Dave Donnelly. All the songs on the album—recorded in Los Angeles at various studios—were written by Billy Morrison in collaboration with his guests.
