"Mama, I'm Coming Home" is the third song on the 1991 Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 album No More Tears

No More Tears

- 2002 Reissue :- Personnel :Musicians* Ozzy Osbourne – vocals* Zakk Wylde – guitar* Bob Daisley – bass* Randy Castillo – drums* John Sinclair – keyboards, pianoAdditional personnel* Mike Inez – inspiration, musical direction...

. The song is about his wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne

Sharon Osbourne

Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English television host, author, music manager, businesswoman and promoter as well as the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne....

, whom he nicknames "Mama", and his return to her following his imminent retirement. The song was co-written by Lemmy Kilmister, frontman of the heavy metal group Motörhead. He was brought in as a songwriter for the No More Tears album, providing lyrics for the tracks "Hellraiser

Hellraiser (song)

Hellraiser is a song written by Ozzy Osbourne, his guitarist Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy Kilmister, the frontman of heavy metal band Motörhead. The song was written for Osbourne's No More Tears album, in 1991, and despite being one of the most well known Ozzy Osbourne songs, Ozzy never released it as a...

" (which Motörhead also later recorded), "Desire", and "I Don't Want to Change the World."

The single is Osbourne's only solo Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart, peaking at number 28; his only other top 40 hit was his duet with Lita Ford

Lita Ford

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, "Close My Eyes Forever" which peaked at number 8. It also reached number 2 on Billboard'

Billboard (magazine)

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s Mainstream Rock Tracks

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.

Music videos

Two music videos were created for the single. The first was a surreal video that Osbourne didn't like because he felt the video didn't match the song. He then created a second music video with Samuel Bayer

Samuel Bayer

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, which was more to his liking. Osbourne compared the effects in the second video to the hazy smoke effect seen in the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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", which was also directed by Bayer.

Personnel

• Ozzy Osbourne
  Ozzy Osbourne
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English vocalist, whose musical career has spanned over 40 years. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, whose radically different, intentionally dark, harder sound helped spawn the heavy metal...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
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• Zakk Wylde
  Zakk Wylde
  Zachary Phillip Wylde , best known by the stage name Zakk Wylde, is an American musician, songwriter, and occasional actor who is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society. He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory,...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• Bob Daisley
  Bob Daisley
  Robert John "Bob" Daisley is an Australian musician, bassist and lyricist who has performed in genres of rock, blues, R&B, hard rock and metal.-Early career:...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Randy Castillo
  Randy Castillo
  Randolpho Francisco Castillo was best known as Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, and later as drummer for Mötley Crüe, from 1999-2002.-Early years:...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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