The next morning they were informed that their label Jet Records instead wanted a brand new song to release as a single. After performing a show in Birmingham, the band hastily returned to Ridge Farm to remix "Goodbye to Romance" for a single. Osbourne has stated that the song was his way of saying goodbye to his former band Black Sabbath, as he had thought his career was over after leaving the band. The first track written for the album was "Goodbye to Romance". A week later, they travelled to Ridge Farm Studio to commence recording. The completed lineup retreated to Clearwell Castle in Gloucestershire for six days to rehearse and give Kerslake an opportunity to learn the new songs. After auditioning several drummers, ex- Uriah Heep member Lee Kerslake was hired as the permanent drummer. They had hoped Lee would be a permanent member but "he wasn't the final piece of the puzzle", bassist Daisley recalls. The band recorded demos of the songs "I Don't Know", "Crazy Train", "Goodbye to Romance", and "You Looking at Me Looking at You" in Birmingham in early 1980 with ex- Lone Star drummer Dixie Lee. Screnage was never considered as a candidate to be the group's permanent drummer and was not involved in the songwriting process at all.
Much of the album was written by guitarist Randy Rhoads, bassist Bob Daisley, and Ozzy Osbourne in a live-in rehearsal facility in Monmouth, Wales, with a friend of Osbourne's named Barry Screnage performing as the group's drummer.
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