  tribute is a live album by heavy metal vocalist ozzy osbourne, featuring his work with hard rock guitarist randy rhoads, in whose honor the album was released. the album was released on march 19, 1987, five years after the death of rhoads, then it was reissued on august 22, 1995, and again remastered and reissued in 2002. it peaked at number 6 on the billboard 200. ==overview== the album was released in memory of rhoads, guitarist for osbourne's band between 1979 and 1982 who died in a plane crash while on tour in florida in 1982. the album also includes studio outtakes of rhoads recording the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece, "dee", which rhoads wrote for his mother delores, and which was originally included on osbourne's debut solo album blizzard of ozz. the majority of the album from "i don't know" through to "paranoid" was recorded live in cleveland, ohio on may 11, 1981, with the exception of an extended guitar solo in the song "suicide solution" which was recorded in montreal on july 28, 1981, a
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