# Is Ozzy dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344 "2004-01-08T02:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/1 "2004-01-08T02:16:30Z")
My local radio station WEBN (Cincinnati) is playing tribute music to Ozzy and is saying that he passed away earlier today from injuries sustained in the ATV crash. Google news doesn’t have anything yet, neither does anyone else that I can find. Can anyone confirm or deny? ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/2 "2004-01-08T02:19:50Z")
Nothing on Reuters. Sounds like a distastful DJ stunt – here’s hoping anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/3 "2004-01-08T02:30:49Z")
Ok, nevermind. they are now saying that they got bad info and he is still ok as far as they know. Sorry to disrupt your lives. Go about your business. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/4 "2004-01-08T02:30:56Z")
Found via Google News, dated 1/6/2004: [Ozzy Osbourne “dies” but lives to tell the tale](http://deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2004_01_06_4622.php) ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/5 "2004-01-08T02:32:00Z")
I saw on the news a day or two ago that he is back home. He was walking with a neck brace, and looked like hell. Of course, he looked like hell before the accident 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/6 "2004-01-08T04:16:54Z")
From the link \*\*Scarlett67 posted: > [@](#): > > Rock star Oswald “Ozzy Osbourne” Osbourne “died” twice after his quad biking tomfoolery, he has revealed. > > The former Black Sabbath frontman and bat botherer was saved by his bodyguard Sam Ruston, who gave the singer mouth-to-mouth when he stopped breathing. > > Oswald suffered eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, a shattered collarbone, a crushed vertebra in his neck, a squashed packet of Benson & Hedges and a substantial loss of loose change after his tumble. Sam Ruston suffered second-degree burns to his lips and a substantial phallic swelling. Methinks this is comedy. First of all, Ozzy Osbourne’s real name is NOT Oswald Osbourne. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/7 "2004-01-08T11:27:18Z")
The “I died twice” quote comes from an interview Ozzy gave the Sunday Mirror (a British newspaper) The Sunday Mirror interviewed Ozzy at his house, and the article included pictures taken of Ozzy at home, wearing his neck brace. Story’s on the [website](http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/frontpagetop/page.cfm?objectid=13786149&method=full&siteid=106694), but doesn’t include pics. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/8 "2004-01-08T12:03:48Z")
To LifeOnWry’s post, his first name is John. and it doesnt appear to be incredibly serious either. Although I’ve spent time in hospital myself after sustaining “a squashed packet of Benson & Hedges”. nasty. in any case, Ozzy falls into the ‘unkillable’ category, inhabited by the likes of Keef Richards and Shane McGowan. plus others I can’t think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![rich\_mcg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@rich\_mcg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rich_mcg)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/9 "2004-01-08T12:46:41Z")
I’m putting money on the fact that he actually died several years ago. It’s the only explanation for his behaviour on ‘The Osbournes’. And if you ask how he got away with it for so long - ‘Bubbles? Bubbles? I’m the prince of fXXking darkness me’. Surely that explains it. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/10 "2004-01-08T12:52:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LifeOnWry \* > \*\*From the link \*\*Scarlett67 posted: > > Methinks this is comedy. First of all, Ozzy Osbourne’s real name is NOT Oswald Osbourne. \*\* Gee, ya think? 😛 It’s a parody site. > [@](#): > > Buckinghamshire Ambulance Service were unavailable for comment today but released the following statement: “We can neither confirm nor deny that a Buckinghamshire paramedic repeatedly beat Mr Osbourne over the head and upper body with an ECG monitor, although I can confirm that we are today launching an appeal for a new ECG monitor.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ozzy-dead/223344/11 "2004-01-08T22:58:10Z")
This _isn’t_ a parody. John Michael (Ozzy) Osbourne’s been dead since 1977 in an apparent heroin overdose. He was replaced by the unemployed William Campbell (a McCartney look-alike contest winner) who had filled in for THE Beatles bassist from 1966-1976. In early 1977, following the recovery of the real Paul McCartney; who had snapped out of a ten year long coma after crashing his MG into Bob Dylan’s Harley, Campbell had reconstructive surgery to fill in for the recently deceased Osbourne. There are hundreds of clues that substantiate this rumor. For example: On Black Sabbath’s 1978 Release, Never Say Die! the illustrative album title speaks volumes - and the album art cleary show’s Campell wearing a pilot’s mask. If you don’t believe me, ask the other Dopers who are Black Sabbath/Ozzy fans. They can provide you will all the evidence you’ll need.