This just in: Ozzy Osbourne's rockin' new single, "I Don't Wanna Stop," will be featured on the Madden NFL '08 soundtrack, which marks the first song to be announced for this year's installment of , and the first time that the controversial musician's songs will be featured in a video game.
"The anticipation for both Ozzy's album and this year's Madden NFL creates a perfect storm of excitement which made 'I Don't Want to Stop' an ideal elad song for the Madden NFL 08 soundtrack," wrote Steve Schnur, EA's Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing in a press release today. "Now, the Prince of Darkness meets the King of Video Games and we're enormously proud to have a killer new song from a legendary artist as our first announced track. This is going to be the biggest, wildest and best Madden NFL soundtrack yet.
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King of Video Games, is it? We suppose they're ..
. Although EA has yet to release the rest of the songs, we're excited that the Madden series is continuing to draw bigger and badder artists, even if it means we'll have to rethink our plans to in celebration of Madden Day. Hrm.
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Last week here in baltimore, I was attending Smackdown and Ozzy performed not once, BUT TWICE!! You saw the first one on TV, but the 2nd bonus one was Crazy Train.But I'm getting All-Star Football 2K7, so no ozzy in my football videogame future.
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