Rock Stars and Drugs 2 Ozzy Osbourne

This lens will take a look at Ozzy and his wild partying days and try to act as a deterrent to the young kids today who may think a life of drugs and rock and roll can be glamorous. Living a lifestyle like this is dangerous and can only lead to harm. Life is about the music, not the drugs.

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born December 3, 1948) was the lead vocalist of the pioneering English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, a popular solo artist and the star of the reality show, The Osbourne's. In addition to lead vocals with Black Sabbath, Osbourne also plays the harmonica and synthesizer.

Early life

Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, England, where he spent most of his early life. He was born into a family of six children. Osbourne reportedly suffered from learning disabilities (believed to be dyslexia) making school life difficult. He sought refuge in music, eventually becoming the singer of a local band, Earth.

Ozzy Osbourne would later discover a band with former classmate Tony Iommi and audition for lead singer. During this time psychedelic rock was enormously popular. To distinguish themselves from the norm, Iommi and his partners decided to play a heavy blues inspired style of music laced with gloomy lyrics. One day during rehearsals, the band noticed people queuing up outside a cinema where a horror film was being shown, and bassist Geezer Butler observed how curious it is that people like to be frightened. The film these fellows were waiting to see was the Mario Bava directed 'Black Sabbath'. After reading an occult book that Osbourne had let Butler borrow, Butler had a dream of a dark figure at the end of his bed. Afterwards, Butler wrote the lyrics to "Black Sabbath", one of their first songs, in a darker vein. It was the prototype of the songs that became their main style later in their career.

Despite only a modest investment from US record label Warner Bros. Records, Black Sabbath met with swift and enduring success. Built around Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, Geezer Butler's lyrics, and topped by Osbourne's eerie vocals, early records such as their eponymous debut album and Paranoid sold huge numbers, as well as getting airplay.

In the late 1970s, the band Necromandus rehearsed with Ozzy Osbourne and briefly became the first incarnation of his Blizzard of Ozz solo project. The Ozzy Osbourne Band began life as The Blizzard of Ozz. The first line-up of the band featured drummer Lee Kerslake (of Uriah Heep), bassist/lyricist Bob Daisley (of Rainbow), and guitarist Randy Rhoads (of Quiet Riot). The first album was to be titled eponymously, but was later changed to Blizzard of Ozz featuring Ozzy Osbourne. The record company would eventually title the record Ozzy Osbourne, with the album simply annotated Blizzard of Ozz. After this, the band's name was simplified to The Ozzy Osbourne Band. Kerslake and Bob Daisley, however, still refer to that era as the "Blizzard of Ozz". Largely written by Daisley and Rhoads, Ozzy met with considerable success on his first solo effort, the debut collection selling well with heavy metal fans.

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Ozzy loved to party. I don't think anyone could out-party the Oz man. There probably isn't a drug that Ozzy hasn't tried. I will try to research and make a list of all the drugs Ozzy has digested or inhaled or shot up!

Cocaine
Heroin
Alcohol
Speed
Marijuana

still researching!

In this interview with the Montreal Mirror, Ozzy talks about his drug use.

Mirror: Hey Ozzy, first off I'd like to congratulate you on The Ozzman Cometh CD. The inclusion of those Black Sabbath demos was amazing.

Ozzy: Thanks, I found those demos by sheer accident. My wife asked me to clean my room and I just stumbled upon them and after I heard them I said I've got to put them out.

Mirror: Yeah, they're cool. It sounded like you were just making up the words as you went along.

Ozzy: Well, I hadn't gotten around to writing the lyrics, so I just said stuff off the top of my head.

Mirror: Like in "Fairies Wear Boots?"

Ozzy: Well, I actually wrote that one, but I was on acid.

Mirror: With lyrics like "Electric Funeral" and "I am Iron Man," it does seem like a lot of your lyrics for Black Sabbath were written while you were stoned.

Ozzy: Oh yeah, definitely. Probably almost every single thing we ever did was while we were stoned.

Mirror: Well, I guess "Sweet Leaf" and "Snowblind" were kind of obvious.

Ozzy: Yeah, but most people wouldn't understand a lot of the drug references, because it was like a drug language that only the four members in Sabbath would know.

Mirror: But you're sober now, right?

Ozzy: I try and stay sober. I'm sober today.

Mirror: Do you find sobriety boring?

Ozzy: Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes I think "Ah fuck it," if I'm around it. I don't go to bars or nightclubs but occasionally I'll find myself in a dodgy situation that I just can't get out of. All I can say is I'm sober today, tomorrow I may drink. I just can't say.

Mirror: Can you feel the residual long-term effects of your drug use today?

Ozzy: What do you mean?

Mirror: Uhhh... if you didn't do drugs do you think you'd feel better now?

Ozzy: I don't know, because I did do all those drugs and drank all that booze so I don't know.

Mirror: Well now that you're trying to get sober, are there any current vices you have?

Ozzy: The one thing that is killing me now is cigarettes. It's worse than any addiction I've ever had, because at least with drugs and alcohol I would get stoned or drunk. With these fucking things, all I get is waking up in the morning and feeling like someone booted me in the ribs.

Mirror: But you didn't go to the Betty Ford Clinic for cigarettes.

Ozzy: Yeah, I guess I have been in a lot of clinics.

Mirror: What was the Betty Ford Clinic like?

Ozzy: It's like a fucking hotel with a golf course.

Mirror: What do they make you do?

Ozzy: You wash your own clothes, make your own beds, vacuum your own room, make sure there's always a fresh pot of coffee on and then you try and make your three o'clock archery lesson.

Mirror: Kind of like an alcoholics Club Med, huh.

Ozzy: Well, that's how I got conned into going. My wife told me it's a place where they would teach me to drink like a gentleman. I just thought I was drinking wrong.

Mirror: C'mon Ozzy, you mean to tell me you had never heard of the Betty Ford Clinic?

Ozzy: I'm fucking serious. I thought Betty Ford was the president of the motor car company.

Mirror: What was their reaction to you treating it like the Betty Ford bar tending course?

Ozzy: Well, I went up to her when I got there and said "Good evening, I'm Mr. Osbourne and if you would just point me in the direction of the bar, I'm eager to start work on my drinking problem." I thought she would sit and watch me drink and say things like "No, Mr. Osbourne, we must sip our drinks, not gulp them."

Mirror: You mean you actually thought they would have classes on proper coaster etiquette?

Ozzy: Well, yeah. That's what my wife told me.

Read the full interview here... Full Interview with Ozzy Osbourne

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Milestones from Grammy Award-winning Ozzy Osbourne's 37-year career:

THE SEVENTIES:

* Ozzy releases his first record with Black Sabbath in 1970 (released Friday, February 13th). The self-titled record goes platinum that same year in the U.K. and U.S.
* Ozzy releases 10 records with Black Sabbath.
* Black Sabbath has sold over 50 million records (to date) worldwide.
* Black Sabbath embarks on several world tours and performs to legions of fans around the globe.
* Black Sabbath performs at the first California Jam in June 1974 to over 250,000 fans.
* Ozzy leaves Black Sabbath and goes solo in 1979.

THE EIGHTIES:

* Ozzy releases his first solo record Blizzard Of Ozz in 1980. The record quickly goes 4x Platinum.
* Ozzy releases seven records throughout the decade. Each one sells well over two million copies.
* Ozzy has sold over 50 million CD's as a solo artist worldwide.
* Ozzy performs at the US Festival in 1983 in front of 250,000 fans.
* Ozzy performs at Live Aid in 1985, the legendary benefit concert for world hunger.
* Ozzy performs at the Moscow Peace Festival in 1989. This was the first major rock concert in the Soviet Republic by Western artists.

THE NINETIES:

* Ozzy releases five records this decade. Each record goes multi-platinum.
* Ozzy has performed to millions of fans around the world. His live concerts are guaranteed sell-outs.
* Ozzy wins a Grammy Award in 1993 for Best Metal Performance for "I Don't Want To Change the World."
* Ozzy and his wife/manager Sharon launch OZZfest in 1996, the first national music festival of its kind dedicated to hard rock music and breaking new artists.
* 1.4 million fans attend the annual OZZfest music festival which Ozzy headlines.
* Ozzy donates a portion of the OZZfest proceeds to various charities across the country including Lifebeat.

THE NEW MILLENIUM:

* Ozzy wins a Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2000 as a part of Black Sabbath for "Iron Man."
* Ozzy (with Black Sabbath) headlines OZZfest 2001. Over 1 million-plus fans attended 32 sold-out dates.
* Noted film director Penelope Spheeris shoots a full-length documentary on OZZfest titled We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'n' Roll, that debuts at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Ozzy also appears in the Adam Sandler film Little Nicky and Austin Powers Goldmember (with the Osbournes).
* Ozzy receives an MTV Movie Awards 2001 nomination for "Best Cameo" for his role in Little Nicky.
* Ozzy has released 13 albums during his 20-year career with Epic Records.
* Ozzy receives a Star on the world-famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 12, 2002.
* The Osbournes debuts on MTV to a record-breaking audience for a new program. Further episodes create a national sensation around the Osbourne family and ratings skyrocket to become the highest-ever in MTV's 22 year history. The Osbournesis still the highest rated series in MTV's history.
* Ozzy dines with President Bush at the Washington Correspondents Association Dinner in May 2002.
* Ozzy performs the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid" for Queen Elizabeth's 50th Jubilee celebration at Buckingham Palace in June 2002
* Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly & Jack host ABC-TV's American Music Awards in January 2003.
* Ozzy, Kelly & Jack's Emmy-nominated "Pepsi Twist" commercial airs during Superbowl XXXVII (2003).
* Ozzy & Kelly hit #1 on the UK singles charts with their remake of the Black Sabbath classic "Changes." The single sold over 1 million copies.
* Ozzy and Sharon debut another MTV success with their Battle For Ozzfest weekly series (2004).
* Ozzy's gold-certified Prince Of Darkness box set was released in March 2005 on Epic Records.
* Ozzy performs "Crazy Train" from atop the New England Patriots football helmet September 8, 2005 as the surprise guest at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts for ABC TV's prime-time "NFL Opening Kickoff 2005."
* Ozzy releases the DualDisc Under Cover in late 2005.
* Ozzy and Black Sabbath inducted at The Second Annual UK Music Hall of Fame Ceremony.
* Ozzy inducted as a member of Black Sabbath into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2006.
* Ozzy releases Black Rain -- his first album with new studio material in six years in May 2007.

This information is taken from ozzy's bio page. Ozzy Bio

Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Album: No More Tears (1991)
Song: No More Tears

No More Tears lyrics

The light in the window is a crack in the sky
A stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye
A levee of tears to learn she'll never be coming back
The man in the dark will bring another attack

Your momma told you that you're not supposed to talk to strangers
Look in the mirror tell me do you think your life's in danger here, ya

No more tears

Another day passes as the night closes in
The red light goes on to say it's time to begin

I see the man around the corner waiting, does he see me?
I close my eyes and wait to hear the sound of someone screaming here

No more tears

So now that it's over can't we just say goodbye?
I'd like to move on and make the most of the night
Maybe a kiss before I leave you this way
Your lips are so cold I don't know what else to say

I never wanted it to end this way my love my darling
Believe me when I say to you in love I think I'm falling here

No more tears

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