Osbourne bit it for a goof, thinking it was a rubber toy. He had to take a week of rabies shots. Was the victim of a burglary at his Buckinghamshire UK home in November Discovered only after he grew up that he is dyslexic, after being told for years that the reason he had trouble reading in school was because he was "dumb". His favorite band is The Beatles , who inspired him to become a musician when Beatlemania spread worldwide.
When he started out in music, the demand for rock singers in his hometown of Birmingham was so strong that anyone with their own microphone and PA amplifier could get a paying gig. Osbourne's father paid for the equipment, to spare him having to work a menial job after his failures in school. Former neighbour of Pat Boone.
Boone's cover of "Crazy Train" was used as the theme for "The Osbournes". Diagnosed with Parkinson's Syndrome and will have to take daily medication for the rest of his life to combat the involuntary shudders associated with the condition. His dad's death in lead to several hospitalizations due to his depression. Grandfather of Isabelle, whose mother is Ozzy's daughter Jessica Osbourne. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame for their outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture.
Ozzy retaliated by deleting their parts from the albums entirely and rerecording them with his then-current band. The song title S. Touring the U. He left school at fifteen and was employed as a construction site laborer, trainee plumber, apprentice toolmaker, car factory horn-tuner, and abattoir worker. He doesn't answer to his birth name John and will not respond to someone who calls him by it. In he revealed he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD.
The lifestyle I've been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times. They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' -- this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
The only black magic Sabbath ever got into was a box of chocolates. My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk. Sometimes I think my whole career and life has only been about a bloody Bat! I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off I mean, look at me! I couldn't be a royal.
It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl. And what did I do? I was just being myself. Could be worse. I could be Sting. Viagra's a great sleeping drug. I take Viagra, and Sharon goes right to sleep. LA's not a good place to grow old. It's a Paris Hilton -getting-fucked-up-the-arse kind of town.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them. Recalling an LSD trip: "There were these horses in a field. They were talking to me. I knew I was in trouble when I couldn't make it offstage quick enough to get whatever variety of shit I was tipping down me.
I thought to myself: There are people working in gas stations, and all these menial jobs, to put money aside to see the Ozzfest, and I'm more interested in going back to the hotel, and doing a bag of white powder, or whatever shit it is I'm on. She's the love of my life, and she's also, like, the controller. I couldn't sleep with her for nine months because I was scared of waking up and she'd died in the night. They'd sit there with five cameras pointing in all directions just for you to slip on a dog turd or something.
One day, my son and I were arguing and he said: "Do you mind if people laugh with you, or at you? But really, I was thinking, I wouldn't like to know for a fact that they're laughing at me. One night in Hamburg, I painted my face purple, and didn't realise it was indelible. So I had to walk around Hamburg for the next three days with a purple head! This has all been such an amazing journey for me.
I can vividly remember sitting on the step of my house in Aston, just tripping about what it would be like to be a Beatle. Ozzy Osbourne rose to fame in the s as the frontman of the seminal heavy metal band Black Sabbath, delivering such iconic songs as "War Pigs," "Iron Man" and "Paranoid.
Osbourne later garnered a new legion of fans by starring with his family in the unlikely hit reality show The Osbournes. John Michael Osbourne was born into a working-class family in Birmingham, England, on December 3, The fourth of six children, he acquired the nickname Ozzy while in elementary school, where he struggled with his dyslexia. These and other challenges prompted Osbourne to leave school at age 16, at which point he worked a series of menial jobs, including a stint in a slaughterhouse.
He soon moved on to more illicit activities by committing a series of petty crimes, culminating with a brief prison sentence for burglary. Throughout this turbulent period in his life, however, Osbourne nurtured a deep love for music, and after his release from prison, he began exploring his potential as a vocalist. Released by Vertigo Records in , Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album was largely panned by critics but sold well in England and abroad.
The band's use of religious symbolism and mythic themes lent a gothic cast to their public personae. It also earned them constant criticism from right-wing groups, negative publicity that simply fueled the band's popularity with its fan base, mostly young males.
As was the case with their first two albums, their subsequent efforts Master of Reality , Vol. Punctuating this shift, they were also forced to cut their subsequent tour short when Osbourne was injured in a motorcycle accident.
Unlike some artists, who fade into obscurity after leaving the groups that made them famous, Osbourne in delivered a solo debut, Blizzard of Ozz , that was a resounding commercial success. His follow-up, Diary of a Madman, performed equally well. The ensuing tour, however, was laden with misfortune, including a plane crash that killed guitar player Randy Rhoads and two other members of their entourage. Throughout the s, Osbourne continued to cultivate the image of the troubled loner and angry rebel, with his antisocial theatrics contributing to his public notoriety.
Among his antics, he showered his audiences with raw meat and bit the head off a live bat onstage. Not everyone found his persona and dark music so appealing, and he was frequently singled out by religious conservatives who hoped to demonstrate the negative impacts of rock music on society.
Despite these and other challenges — including a stint in rehab — Osbourne continued to achieve commercial success, with the albums Bark at the Moon , The Ultimate Sin and No Rest for the Wicked all going multi-platinum in the U.
He ushered in the s with his sixth solo offering, No More Tears , which reached the Top 10 in the U. By the end of the decade, Osbourne's star was on the wane, and he continued to struggle with the substance abuse problems that had plagued him throughout his career. In late December , Slash's wife announced that, along with Fergie, Osbourne would be appearing on the guitarist's solo album.
In he decided to cancel Ozzfest to work on his new album which he announced will be coming out in November. Osbourne has been married twice and is the father of seven children five biological, and two adopted. He later married Sharon Arden and had three children with her. They also took in the family's friend Robert Marcato after his mother died, but never legally adopted him.
Osbourne also has three grandchildren, Isabelle, and Harry from his daughter Jessica and granddaughter Maia from son Louis.
He wrote a song for his daughter, Aimee, which appeared as a b-side on the album Ozzmosis. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Buckinghamshire, England. Osbourne achieved greater celebrity status by the unlikely success of his own brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a series featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly and special guest appearances from his son Louis, but not their eldest daughter Aimee, who declined to participate.
The program became one of MTV's greatest hits. It premiered on 5 March , and the final episode aired 21 March Ozzy Osbourne, Frank Bruno, and Billy Connolly provided lead vocals on The War Song of the Urpneys single and album track, although the version heard in the series were largely sung by composer Mike Batt.
Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff. He has over 15 tattoos, the letters O-Z-Z-Y across the knuckles of his left hand was the first he had done as a teenager, by means of a sewing needle and pencil lead. Osbourne experienced tremors for some years and linked them to his continuous drug abuse. In May he found out it was actually Parkin Syndrome, a genetic condition, the symptoms of which are very similar to Parkinson's disease.
Osbourne will have to take daily medication for the rest of his life to combat the involuntary shudders associated with the condition. Osbourne has shown symptoms of a mild hearing loss, as evidenced in the television show, The Osbournes, as he often asks his family members to repeat what they say. Ozzy Osbourne found himself under fire in his controversial concert and stage acts that some parent-teacher associations, media content watchdog activist groups, including many Christian groups accused Osbourne of being a negative influence for teenagers.
They claimed messages on his songs, actions the infamous "horned hand" and stage decorations are portrayals of devil worship and glorified Satanism, but Osbourne denies these accusations and he claims it was done in good fun, symbolized teenage rebellion and for shock value.
In actuality, Osbourne flashed a peace sign with each hand, while his Sabbath replacement, Ronnie James Dio, was better known for flashing the "horns", which is actually an Italian tradition. At least one scholar has compared the controversy surrounding Osbourne and accusations of Satanism to those leveled against the renowned occultist, Aleister Crowley, and how both were demonized by the media and the Christian Right for their antics.
Osbourne tempts the comparison with his song "Mr. Both Osbourne and Crowley enjoyed the infamy of being labeled Satanists, though both denied the charge. Still, they accepted labels such as Prince of Darkness Osbourne and The Great Beast Crowley , terms cited by critics to condemn both men as anti-Christian. Osbourne was thought to have performed songs that promoted or condoned suicide.
In , California teenager John McCollum committed suicide while listening to Ozzy Osbourne's "Suicide Solution," a song about the dangers of alcohol abuse. CBS for their son's death, claiming the lyrics in the song, "Where to hide, suicide is the only way out. Don't you know what it's really about? Although the family lawyer suggested that Osbourne should be criminally charged for encouraging a young person to commit suicide, the courts ruled in Osbourne's favor saying there was no connection between the song and McCollum's suicide.
Osbourne was sued yet again for the same reason in Waller v. He has also come under fire from former musicians such as Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, and Phil Soussan for not paying them royalties and giving them credit on the albums they played on. Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake sued the Osbournes in for outstanding royalties from songs written for the Blizzard of Ozz releases, and for reinstatement of performance credits.
Litigation continued in when Daisley and Kerslake and bassist Phil Soussan once again sued for unpaid royalties. The Osbournes responded by erasing their contributions on the original masters and re-issuing new versions with the bass and drum tracks re-recorded by Robert Trujillo and Mike Bordin.
Phil Soussan also brought a lawsuit against Osbourne and even got into a physical confrontation with Sharon at Randy Castillo's funeral. According to the press, Osbourne's antics progressively reached a more dangerous point during the s; his alcoholism and drug abuse continued.
He later underwent a number of treatments for alcoholism and drug abuse. After signing his first solo career record deal he came in to meet some of the people who worked at the record company. His plan was to release doves into the air to get people to notice him, but when no one noticed, he changed his plans. He grabbed a dove, bit its head off, then spat the head out. Then, with blood still dripping from his lips, a security guard came to remove him.
Despite its controversy, this act has been parodied and alluded to several times throughout his career and is part of what made Ozzy Osbourne famous. He gained further notoriety on 20 January , when he bit the head off a bat he thought was rubber while performing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. Rolling Stone magazine in ranked this incident number two on its list of "Rock's Wildest Myths.
According to Osbourne himself in the booklet to the edition of Diary of a Madman, the bat was not only alive but also managed to bite Osbourne, resulting in him having to take rabies shots. Osbourne admitted that, at the height of his drug addiction, he shot his family's pets: "I was taking drugs so much I was a wreck. The final straw came when I shot all our cats. We had about 17, and I went crazy and shot them all.
My wife found me under the piano in a white suit, a shotgun in one hand and a knife in the other. While on tour in Texas in , drunk already at 11 am, he urinated on a portion of the Alamo, while wearing future wife Sharon's dress, while there for a photo shoot. A police officer arrested him, and Osbourne was subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for a decade. In the wake of a lawsuit by former band members, Daisley and Kerslake over unpaid royalties for songwriting credit, Osbourne's catalog were remastered and reissued again in spring The pair also played on Osbourne's studio album, Down to Earth from Black Sabbath Wiki Explore.
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