Gets Me Through

"Gets Me Through" is a song by English heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne from his 2001 album Down to Earth. It is both the opening track and lead single from the album. The song opens with the lyrics "I'm not the kind of person you think I am/I'm not the Antichrist or the Iron Man", explaining that Osbourne's stage persona is not his actual personality. The song's lyrics also feature Osbourne telling his fans that their appreciation "gets (him) through", hence the title.

"Gets Me Through"
Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album Down to Earth
B-side"No Place for Angels"
Released4 September 2001
Recorded2000
GenreHeavy metal
Length5:04
LabelSony Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim Palmer
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology
"Back on Earth"
(1997)		 "Gets Me Through"
(2001)		 "Dreamer"
(2002)
Music video
"Gets Me Through" on YouTube

The single peaked at number eighteen on the UK Singles Chart and number two on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[1] In Metal Edge magazine's 2001 Readers' Choice Awards, it won "Music Video of the Year" and tied with Slipknot's "Left Behind" for "Song of the Year."[2]

Music video

Two versions of the video exist. The first version was banned from MTV, due to it featuring images of flames, destruction, and a room of doves being killed and bleeding to death. The video was re-edited following the September 11 attacks, removing most of the flames and destruction, as well as the dove scene, though a clip featuring a television set exploding was not removed.

Personnel

Music Video

Director: Jonas Åkerlund

References
  1. "Billboard singles chart history-Ozzy Osbourne". Retrieved February 17, 2009.
  2. Metal Edge, June 2002


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