How do you accidentally bite the head off a bat? That's like accidentally sticking your penis in someone other than your SO.

He's like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven't heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point

e; I stand corrected

The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.

i actually needed this explanation, i'm young

Ozzy Osbourne aka: the prince of darkness and his band Black Sabbath and later solo Ozzy, are some of the originators of what we now know as heavy metal. Ozzy was well known for onstage theatrics which were popular at the time for bands like Sabbath and Alice Cooper. Big stage shows showing fake gore and violence like the precursors to Gwar. They would act out killing people and animals on stage as part of their showmanship routine and throw offal and guts into the crowd. "Worship Satan". Have women in lingerie on stage for no reason but to get covered in "blood" or act like they were being murdered. Eventually the crowds started throwing stuff back. One such stage show involved a fan throwing a "live" bat on stage. Ozzy picked it up and bit it's head off "not knowing" it was alive. There are conflicting stories about this of course.

Much of this also led to the satanic panic we experienced as kids in the 80's and 90's.

Likely a lot of these actions were because Ozzy was a raging alcoholic and drug user for much of his professional life. There are lots of interviews with him completely fucked out of his brain. He would intentionally drop acid and booze before said interviews and sometimes even his band mates couldn't handle him. Like Kieth Richards people even joked that Ozzy would outlive everyone because he had done so much stupid shit publicly over the course of his life and survived.

Ozzy was one of the artists that morphed the huge epic stage shows of the 60's rock and roll era into the chaos and drama of early heavy metal. Aside from his shortcomings Ozzy was an original rock and roll master.

Great summary, but just as a point of order apparently the bat might not have actually been alive when he bit it: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72ppzwek90o

That being said, he apparently did on a separate occasion bite the heads off of two live doves. Dude was on hella drugs and alcohol, but goddamn was he talented.

I'm old. Ozzy was one of my childhood heros.

Why is no one mentioning that he once peed on the Alamo?... Does no one remember the Alamo?

No one person has ever invented a genre of music. Dont get me wrong, I won't argue against calling him the grandad of metal or whatever it is, but he INVENTED heavey metal? Fucking insane take.

How do you accidentally bite the head off a bat? That's like accidentally sticking your penis in someone other than your SO.

Ozzy Osbourne aka: the prince of darkness and his band Black Sabbath and later solo Ozzy, are some of the originators of what we now know as heavy metal. Ozzy was well known for onstage theatrics which were popular at the time for bands like Sabbath and Alice Cooper. Big stage shows showing fake gore and violence like the precursors to Gwar. They would act out killing people and animals on stage as part of their showmanship routine and throw offal and guts into the crowd. "Worship Satan". Have women in lingerie on stage for no reason but to get covered in "blood" or act like they were being murdered. Eventually the crowds started throwing stuff back. One such stage show involved a fan throwing a "live" bat on stage. Ozzy picked it up and bit it's head off "not knowing" it was alive. There are conflicting stories about this of course.

Much of this also led to the satanic panic we experienced as kids in the 80's and 90's.

Likely a lot of these actions were because Ozzy was a raging alcoholic and drug user for much of his professional life. There are lots of interviews with him completely fucked out of his brain. He would intentionally drop acid and booze before said interviews and sometimes even his band mates couldn't handle him. Like Kieth Richards people even joked that Ozzy would outlive everyone because he had done so much stupid shit publicly over the course of his life and survived.

Ozzy was one of the artists that morphed the huge epic stage shows of the 60's rock and roll era into the chaos and drama of early heavy metal. Aside from his shortcomings Ozzy was an original rock and roll master.

It was not "his band". Although Ozzy was in Black Sabbath from the beginning, he was enlisted by Bill Ward and Tony Iommi together with Geezer Butler because as a drummer and a guitarist with a vision they needed bass and vocals with them.

Ozzy was kicked out in 1979 and started his solo career in the shock rock tradition he is mostly known for. The idea that sparked Black Sabbath however was a heavier blues than ever heard before and that was Ward and Iommi.

As you say, they were some of the originators of heavy metal. There is no single inventor of the genre. There never is. Culture is cross pollination and collaboration.

Why is no one mentioning that he once peed on the Alamo?... Does no one remember the Alamo?

He didn’t piss on the actual Alamo but it was close enough Texas didn’t care

Ozzy made it "his band". That's what front men did then. The sound came.from the band. The recognition came from the front man. In this case Ozzy.

Ok, you're officially right, as in he did not pee on the actual Alamo... he peed on the Alamo Cenotaph Monument, which is the monument to honor those who fell in the battle. I'm not sure that's any better, and I can understand why the Texans were upset by it.

Ok, you're officially right, as in he did not pee on the actual Alamo... he peed on the Alamo Cenotaph Monument, which is the monument to honor those who fell in the battle. I'm not sure that's any better, and I can understand why the Texans were upset by it.

Absolutely

He's like the only major rock star from the 60s-80s period I can think of who I haven't heard about sexually harassing or assaulting someone at some point

e; I stand corrected

The couple used to physically fight regularly and, according to Osbourne, they would "beat the shit out of each other." She has described herself as "a beaten woman" when she was at the hands of husband Ozzy where he once knocked out her front teeth. She once retaliated by throwing a full bottle of scotch at his head.