Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne song)

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"Shot in the Dark" is a song from Ozzy Osbourne's 1986 album The Ultimate Sin and was written by then Ozzy band bassist Phil Soussan. The songs lyrics were allegedly written by Osbourne and were inspired by the 1980 assassination of former Beatle John Lennon

Allegedly the song was originally written by Steve Overland of FM, but he has never seen a penny from it. A demo is available on the internet of Steve performing the song.^{[citation needed]}

The video features a girl traveling with her friends to an Ozzy concert, and eventually turns into part of a billboard advertising Ozzy. This was one of Ozzy's biggest solo hits and was played live regularly up until 1992. It features synthesizers, which were popular at the time, a fast melodic solo, and it shows Ozzy going in a more glam metal direction.

Children of Bodom covered the song for the Japanese version of their album Follow the Reaper.

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