Featured peformers: Ozzy Osbourne (performer, songwriter). He got into a cab and I strapped Koko into my jeep and drove home – just barely made it. Close My Eyes Forever, a Music video by Lita Ford with Ozzy Osbourne. He said, ‘Can you drive me home?’ I said, ‘No, I can’t.’ We were stoned out of our minds. We were a long way from where Ozzy had to go. I looked at him and went, ‘Uh-oh, we’re in trouble.’ Sharon had been waiting all night. We started singing, messing about and we wrote ‘Close My Eyes Forever.’ Ozzy stayed, Sharon got bored and left, and me and Ozzy had a couple of drinks and we were jamming. It was freaking huge – I had to strap it in the front seat of my jeep to get it home. They showed up one day and had a housewarming present for me: a life-size duplicate of Koko the gorilla from the San Diego Zoo. It was just me and Ozzy and Sharon hanging about in the recording studio. Ozzy (at the end of the song): Close your eyes (x2) Close your eyes for me. She recalled to Metal Underground: “Close My Eyes Forever was a mistake. If I could have just one more wish, Id wipe the cobwebs from my eyes. The song came about by accident during a night of drinking and getting stoned when Lita was being managed by Ozzy’s wife, Sharon. Letra e msica de Close Your Eyes Forever ( With Ozzy Osbourne) de Ford Lita - If I close my eyes forever / Will it all remain unchanged / If I close. Her time with the band honed her skills as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.

Ford, along with Joan Jett, was in the all-girl teenaged rock group The Runaways from 1975-1979. Ford was once engaged to Tony Iommi, who played guitar with Osbourne in Black Sabbath. Hear the song below:įord recorded this as a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, and the pair wrote the song together. It was one of four singles from the album, Lita. This song is also Osbourne’s highest charting single of his solo career. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1989 and also peaked at number twenty five on the U.S. This song is Ford’s highest charting single, peaking at number eight on the U.S. The song was written by Ford and Osbourne as the result of an accident in the studio during which they both drank heavily and inadvertently wrote the lyrics to the song together.

Ozzy close my eyes forever