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A Few Facts About Ozzy Osbourne You May Not Know

In this article I am going to list a few facts about Ozzy Osbourne from the 70's/80's/and 90's you may have or may have not known. 



1. When Ozzy was in Black Sabbath, they recorded the first album in 12 hours and it only cost $900.

2. During the making of the video for the song So Tired off the album Bark At The Moon an exploding mirror sent shards of glass into Ozzy's throat which caused him to postpone 8 dates of the Bark At The Moon tour.

3. Early on in Black Sabbath's career Ozzy used to splatter purple paint on his chest to get the audience's attention. It did not work.

4. Ozzy cannot read a note of music.

5. When the plane crash that took the first guitarist of his solo career Randy Rhodes, crashed into the building Ozzy saved the owner of the house who was deaf and unaware of what was going on.

6. During a show on the No More Tours Tour Ozzy received a pre-show painkiller injection which temporarily paralyzed him from the waist down. He performed the show by clinging to the microphone stand for 2 hours.

7. The woman from The Ultimate Ozzy video and The Ultimate Sin album cover used to be a cheerleader for the L.A. Rams.

8. The original cover for The Ultimate Sin was pulled because the woman on the cover had no pants on and there were 3 crucifixes on top of a hill in the background.

9. Ozzy almost appeared in an episode of Miami Vice, but was pulled because of the lawsuit that his song Suicide Solution caused a young man to kill himself.

10. Before Ozzy returned to his solo career in 1995, he attempted to put together a band with guitarist Steve Vai (David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Frank Zappa, Alcatrazz) called X-Ray.

11. Ozzy once had to pay $172,000 in damages that fans caused at one of his concerts in Meadowlands, New Jersey in 1986.

12. Black Sabbath in the 70's once performed in white ties, tails, top hats and canes at the legendary Whiskey A-Go-Go.

13. The song Bloodbath In Paradise off the album No Rest For The Wicked is about the legendary Charles Manson and his group who performed the Tate murders in Hollywood in 1969.

14. In 1987 Ozzy had a whole new album written but did not like it. So what did he do... he tossed it.

15. The little boy on the cover of the Diary Of A Madman album is his son Louis from his first marriage.


16. The original title of the album No More Tears was Say Hello To Heaven.

17. The song S.I.N. off the album No More Tears stands for Shadows In The Night.

18. When Black Sabbath first started their careers they would get mad because people would just sit there and talk to each other. So what do they do... they turned their amps up all of the way so nobody could hear each other and hold conversations.

19. The song A.V.H. off the album No More Tears stands for Aston Villa Highway.

20. The original title for the Black Sabbath album Vol. 4 was Snowblind but the record company did not like it because of it was an obvious reference to cocaine.

21. They did however on the album Vol. 4 get to thank the Great COKE-Cola company inside the liner notes though.

22. Ozzy played the synthesizer on the Black Sabbath song Who Are You? off the album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

23. When Ozzy bit the head off a dove at the now infamous record company meeting in 1980, which had him banned from his record label offices for several years, he bit the head off a second dove on his way out and threw it at the receptionist.

24. The song Miracle Man is about televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

25. The original title of the album No Rest For The Wicked was Son Of A Nun.

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ozzyrulz777 Posted on Sep 09, 2015 at 09:38 PM

Oh definitely.

Vaporman87 Posted on Sep 09, 2015 at 04:59 PM

One thing I take from this article is that my assessment of Ozzy, gathered during my stint watching his reality show, was correct. He partied wayyyyy too hard and it showed in some of this crazy stunts. LOL. But you can't discount the man's talent. He definitely knew how to sell records.

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