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
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 have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.
I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.
It took a lot of water to down just that f-king bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my f-king throat, after all these years. People all over the world say, 'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened f-king once, for Christ's sake.
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?
I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Just take our name off the list. .Ê.Ê. The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans .Ê.Ê. .
Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .
What you see on the show is absolutely us,
I bit the head off a live bat the other night. It was like eating a Crunchie wrapped in chamois leather.