I’m not normally a big Ozzy Osbourne or baseball fan, but this was hilarious.
Ozzy’s rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” at a Cubs game Sunday, in case you don’t want to read the column:
If you think the transcription is funny, you should hear the audio! I wish I could find it online somewhere.
Seemed like a put-on to me. I saw the prompter in front of him, so it wasn’t a case of forgetting the lyrics. The man is a professional singer, fer chrissakes. I just wondered how the people at the stadium felt about it…
I saw it live -on TV Ch 13 in LA- singular1 is correct. (IMO) Ozzie was never known for his voice being tuneful, so he wisely shifted attention from his"singing" to being a clown.
I saw the replay on SportsCenter and the crowd ate it up. Hilarious!
(AP) - Los Angeles - Heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne recently threw a large party for his band and family after he successfully sang on-pitch for an entire measure. “It was fucking incredible,” said the former frontman for Black Sabbath. “Now I’m looking forward to a new challenge, like learning how to read.”
singular1 is correct. 'Twas a put on. Ozzy may mumble, stumble and stutter around the house but behind a mic, he is large and in charge.
The onstage transformaton is remarkable actually. He speaks clearly, lucidly and actually seems more at home rocking out than he does sitting at the family dinner table. It’s like he has some sort of savantism for performing.
The only comparable thjing I have seen is Mel Tillis who stutters terribly when speaking, but sings perfectly well.
Anyway, if Ozzy is messing up that badly when singing, he is obviously having fun with his public image.
(He has a famously wicked sense of humor: Remember when, on the first season finale of the Osbournes he said of his life “It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.” Also once when asked by a German reporter how he could justify biting the head off of a dove, he said something to the effect of, “A dove!? You bastards killed half of Europe!”)