He was also a musician
The bat story. Someone threw a real dead bat on the stage, thinking it was a fake prop, Ozzie bit the head off it. Turned out to be a real bat and he had to get rabies shots.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to give him rabies vaccine shots?
You’d think he would already have had the full series to protect him from his rabid fans.
Of the over 500 concerts I’ve attended I never got to see him. Was supposed to one time but I had gotten terribly sick and just couldn’t make it.
Went to see Black Sabbath in the fall of 1980 but he had already been replaced by Dio. That show turned out to be a catastrophy. We got the hell out of there and hung out at this dive bar the rest of the night.
Wonder what finally took him. RIP.
Complications from Parkinson’s disease.
Make a joke and I will sigh
And you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness, I cannot feel
And love, to me, is so unreal
And so, as you hear these words
Telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life
I wish I could, but it’s too late
Ozzy wrote a book based on his advice column Ask Dr. Ozzy. It is very entertaining (Amazon rating 4.5/5) and the advice he gives (though not medical) is actually pretty solid, based on several lifetimes worth of lived experience…
Apparently, rock and roll was keeping Osbourne alive. He stopped and then he died.
Keith Richards won’t make that mistake.
Yes, he got a proper send-off.
Every time Death comes for Keith Richards, He gets stared down.
“I have come for you, Keith Richards. It is your time.”
“Mmmph-mmmble-mmph.”
“…I beg your pardon?”
“Bzzle-mmph-mmmble-mmph.”
“I still don’t… I’ll come back later, I’m late for an appointment with another one of the Friends.”
It was always a wonder Ozzy wasn’t part of the rock-n-roll dead at 27 club.
76 is a pretty good run for anyone, much anyone with his lifestyle.
Apparently, Ozzy was an actual mutant and his superpower was a liver with greater than average ability to process alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately, he had other genes that increased the probability of substance abuse problems.
I was never a heavy metal fan but Ozzy-era Black Sabbath was one I always listened to. They had amazing talent.
My favorite joke about that:
Every cigarette smoked takes five minutes off your life and gives it to Keith Richards.
I mainly know Ozzy from tv. He had a nice series with Jack visiting areas of the country. The first season of The Osbournes was great. Ozzy’s drug problems surfaced in the 2nd season.
RIP
As bad as Keith Richards looks, the picture in the attic looks worse.
I was never a big fan of his music but did watch The Osbournes on MTV and that was funny. Even then, years ago, he had tremors from Parkinson’s disease or something like it.
I’m from Des Moines, and while I was not at that infamous concert, I knew a lot of people who were there, and they said the story was absolutely true. This is reminding me of Neil Peart’s death, because absolutely nobody seems to have anything negative to say about him, even if they were not interested in his music, and also saying things like “I never understood people grieving a celebrity death, until this one.”
Ahem, eating DURING the show wasn’t exactly recommended either.
One of the weirdest double bills I ever heard of was Black Sabbath as the headliner, and Boston as the opening act. That must have been one of the strangest backstage scenes ever.
I was never a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Sabbath or Ozzy, though I enjoyed some of their/his music. (“No More Tears” is one of my guilty pleasures. It always gets cranked up when I hear it in the car.) I have to give him credit for making rock & roll interesting with his antics and oversized personality. Rock & roll needs more fun people like that.
Glad he got to perform one last concert. I’m sure he gave it his all. Farewell Ozzy!