The decade was much more diverse.
In 1980, he releasedBlizzard of Ozz.
When Bruce Dickinson replaced the outgoing Paul DiAno,something clicked.
The resulting album,The Number of the Beast, elevated the group from mere metalheads to metal gods.
“Photograph” was huge in the US, reaching No.
1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts and No.
12 on the Hot 100.
It also laid the foundation for glam andhair metal’s success in the subsequent years.
Tom Araya’s terrifying vocals belt out a hellacious scene as the song builds up to a bloodthirsty crescendo.
“Too many phone calls came in, it sparked the thing and it melted.”
But audiences were ready for it.
Motley Crue experienced one last bit of major success with the release of 1989’sDr.
Feelgood,whose title track would be the band’s only gold single.
