His brother recalls him just always finding trouble. The pinnacle came when he broke into a shop behind his house. After six weeks, he knew he never wanted to go back to prison and that he never wanted to work in a factory. But there was one thing he always found solace in. When he turned 14, he truly discovered music by listening to The Beatles. But how was a working-class kid from Birmingham going to launch onto the global music scene like the Fab Four?
Fortunately, he had a loving father, willing to give his son a chance. He talked him into giving him a check for British pounds and Osbourne bought a Shure microphone, microphone stand and Vox speaker. As for Osbourne himself, he chalks it all up to just being true to himself. For a working-class kid from England, the journey was always within him. The rock star was reveling in the success of a solo career, when the unimaginable happened, ending the life of his close friend and musical confidante Randy Rhoads.
Two rappers on the rise to hip-hop stardom became fast friends — and even faster enemies, which may have led to their untimely passings.
What started as a friendship grew into a trailblazing collaboration between two women who broke through gender stereotypes to become rap royalty. 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. And then, here I am at 58, and I'm at [ Elton John ]'s party. All these megastars are there, Paul McCartney or whatever. And there's me with them, standing with all these people I used to admire. It's like I've been in the music industry for 30, 40 years, and it's just been incredible really. I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots. I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?
I suppose Americans get a kick out of watching a crazy Brit family like us make complete fools of ourselves every week. I don't worship the Devil. You gotta be really careful what you bite off.
Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world. They keep 'em as clean as they possibly could, but prisons are to punish people, so they don't exactly have room service, you know. They were musical. I was different. I'm an alcoholic. And the most unnatural thing for an alcoholic is not to drink. So every now and again I'll just go and have a few drinks. But it catches up with you and bites you in the butt, you know?
It was just magic - it was like being hit by a bolt of lightning. I even remember where I was and what I was doing. I was walking down the road in Aston one day, with my light blue transistor radio, and this song came on. I thought, 'What the fuck is that? I never knew it would turn out the way it did - it turned out way bigger than my wildest expectations - but I knew that I wanted to be the singer in a band. John Lennon was so great with words.
What else am I gonna do? Sit around and remember when I was famous? As far as what I do as a job, it keeps me alive. I suppose I was probably born to do what I do. My life has been nothing but an amazing journey.
When they cut into the spine in my neck, they severed my nerves and I got this thing called neuropathy. Are there more steps for you to take to feel better? Very slow recovery. How are you keeping from going nuts? What music have you been playing lately? He was very sick, and he still is. But [Andrew] was one of the first ones to get it. He had a good day and a bad day, you know? It fucks your lungs up. How has writing been going? Do you have a lot of song ideas?
I have a couple ideas; not many.
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