Talk:Mr. Crowley

is it just me, or is the intro to this song similiar to the song used in Scarface, in the scene where Tony was killed?

NeoClassical Metal?
This page makes much of the so-called "neo-classical" metal elements of the song Mr Crowley, saying that they are the earliest recorded. Sorry, but practically the entire album Rainbow Rising - hardly unknown - came out years earlier and Mr Crowley is pretty much a copy of that style. The fact that Yngwie Malmsteen, the world's biggest fan of Richie Blackmore, covered the song must be evidence of this. Mr Crowley is a great song, but rather than lauding its originiality, it should either pay tribute to Rainbow, or make no mention of any origins or originality at all. Hinschelwood 21:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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Pronunciation of "Crowley"
Should there be some mention of how Aleister Crowley's name is pronounced to rhyme with "foully" in this song, despite the fact that its correct pronunciation rhymes with "holy"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.226.170.154 (talk) 01:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't someone who has some experience in grammar and editing re-write this article?? It's terribly written.

I think he pronounces it right, it's just his accent. I'm not going to change the article just yet, but perhaps someone else could confirm. It's just, I heard the song without knowing what it was about, and just understood it to be pronounced "holy" without knowledge of Aleister Crowley. Triangl (talk) 20:20, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It's not his accent. Ozzy's from Birmingham, the UK's Second City, and millions of people talk just like him. I won't bother trying to spell it phonetically, but "foully" / "unholy" would sound different coming from Ozzy's mouth. The wrong pronunciation is also the popular one, many people get it wrong. Since he'd only read it in a book, presumably he'd never heard the name said out loud. Media was a lot more sparse back then, it's not likely Aleister's name would have cropped up on radio or TV often. 188.29.165.104 (talk) 22:44, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

I heard this song just now for the first time, without having ever heard the name before, and it's pretty obvious to me that Ozzie pronounces it to rhyme with "foully"... I don't know why the article says it is correctly pronounced, it is pretty clearly not... --Poromenos (talk) 12:53, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Blizzard Of Ozz
Seems odd that the single is described as the second single by Ozzy 'as a solo artist', when as the picture of the record clearly shows, at that stage 'Blizzard of Ozz' was the band name (this is easily verified online too) Only once Daisley and Kerslake got the boot when 'Diary Of A Madman' was released, did it revert to 'Ozzy Osbourne' only. That however, is a whole new discussion! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.31.97.129 (talk) 21:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Fallout 3 reference
While there is a character in Fallout 3, how do we know it's not a reference to Aleister Crowley? Or could it be referring to both? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.130.22 (talk) 17:10, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Lyric Interpretation
Is it necessarily true that Daisley misunderstood Crowley? While Crowley himself didn't believe in Satan, those who do believe Satan exists would charge Crowley's involvement with the occult as satanic. The lyrical reference to a white horse, often symbolic of will, would indicate a greater familiarity with Crowley's work than the article acknowledges. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.73.147.1 (talk) 04:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC) And is a great song —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.68.60.29 (talk) 04:03, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Crowley's religious views
The artile states that Crowley was an atheist, but when I read the article about Crowley it says that he believed in the god of Horus. It's impossible to be an atheist and believe in Horus, a deity, at the same time, so I assume that it is false to say that Crowley was an atheist. Benzocaine (talk) 03:19, 17 May 2009 (UTC) Crowley was a believer in religion known as Thelema, there's an article about it if you wish to learn more Josh ferro (talk) 08:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Actually.....
Ozzy has stated that he wrote this song in more along the lines of... "Who the fuck were you?" because everyone always compared ozzy to crowley and he had no idea who or what he really did... thats where the questioning lyrics came in... just so yaaaaa know...

Two Gun Crowley?
Is there any link from this man to this song? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crowley —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.215.175.44 (talk) 07:09, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Origin of the Song
I heard in an interview with Ozzy. " I went to Jimmy's (Page) house....And he showed me all this stuff..." Page owns the house Crowley performed his "magic". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.151.235.161 (talk) 12:40, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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