But as soon as the radio stations got hold of ‘Crazy Train’, it was a done deal. The thing just exploded. When the album came out in Britain in September 1980, it went to number seven in the album charts. When it came out in America six months later, it peaked at number twenty-one, but it eventually sold four million copies, making it one of Billboard’s Top 100 bestselling albums of the decade. Reviews? Didn’t read ’em.
