Talk:Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne song)

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The info here is wrong. Neither Tommy Aldridge Nor Don airey played in this album! Keyboards were performed by Mike Moran And drums by Randy Castillo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.104.12.30 (talk) 04:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Songwriting[edit]

My understanding is this song was not written by Phil Soussan at all. Nor was it "covered" by UK AOR band FM; the song was in fact written by Steve Overland (from the UK band FM) years before Ozzy recorded it. He was in a band called Wildfire, which just happened to feature Phil Soussan on bass. They only ever recorded it as a demo. When Phil left to join Ozzy he handed the song over to Ozzy to record. A few lyrics were changed here and there on the Ozzy version. Steve chose to re-record the original version with the band FM & itv was released on their Only Foolin' EP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.173.174.241 (talk) 06:08, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sometime since the above anonymous comment was added in 2014 (which was hard to see as it was added to the image copyright section for some reason; I made a new "Songwriting" section here for it), details on the songwriting have been added. WillieBlues (talk) 00:44, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]