“All the girls ran out of the venue screaming. Isn’t the whole point of being in a band to get a shag, not to make chicks run away?”—Ozzy Osbourne, recalling the first time his band played their song “Black Sabbath”, in I Am Ozzy (2010)
I can still recall the few times one of my brothers played the Black Sabbath album he’d bought in the early Seventies. Thank God he didn’t make a habit of it, or the damage to my ears would undoubtedly have been irreparable—sort of like the damage to Ozzy’s ego when—not so coincidentally!—the very same music drove comely young groupies out of their hall en masse.
Oh, yeah—I guess you’re wondering about the picture. Women might not have had their way with Ozzy at this point (ca. 1970), but drugs were only just beginning to do so—which is why he doesn’t look anywhere like the human wreck he is now.
I can still recall the few times one of my brothers played the Black Sabbath album he’d bought in the early Seventies. Thank God he didn’t make a habit of it, or the damage to my ears would undoubtedly have been irreparable—sort of like the damage to Ozzy’s ego when—not so coincidentally!—the very same music drove comely young groupies out of their hall en masse.
Oh, yeah—I guess you’re wondering about the picture. Women might not have had their way with Ozzy at this point (ca. 1970), but drugs were only just beginning to do so—which is why he doesn’t look anywhere like the human wreck he is now.
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