Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English singer, songwriter and television personality. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the band Black Sabbath. Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 and has since had a successful solo career, releasing 11 studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum certifications in the US. He has reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions, recording the album 13 in 2013. Osbourne's longevity and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth3 December 1948
CityAston, England
I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.
They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
fish like cheese..... sometimes, ......................sometimes some fish like cheese
Dickinson got what he deserved. Was Dickinson so naive to think that I was going to let him get away with talking . . . about my family night after night?
I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.
Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years ago,
To be a parent, especially to rock 'n' roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth, ... You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.
What you see on the show is absolutely us,
I thought at the end of the day they're never going to do it.
L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.