Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness
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As many know, the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne passed away this week, mere weeks after his farewell show, but what many don’t know is that his second memoir will be released posthumously in October;
Ozzy Osbourne, who died this week at 76, had a reputation as a hell-raiser for crazy stunts like biting off a bat’s head. Rumors swirled before his 1982 visit to Kalamazoo.
Ozzy Osbourne was an unruly chaos agent and a beloved family man alike.
Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy
Ozzy Osbourne's death sparks reactions from collaborators, friends, and fellow industry figures. Pearl Jam, Elton John, Yungblud, and more speak.
Ozzy Osbourne married his second wife, Sharon Osbourne, in July 1982. Sharon Osbourne's father, the late Don Arden, had been the manager of Black Sabbath. Louis Osbourne is Ozzy Osbourne's son with ex-wife Thelma Riley, to whom he was married from 1971 until their divorce in 1982.
The year was 1972. Black Sabbath was early in its career, comprising a band of young blue-collar men from the United Kingdom. But this wasn't any kind of Beatles repeat of teenage groupies smitten for a man in a bowl cut.