Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness
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Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy
The world never fell out of love with this Prince of Darkness. Ozzy blew up into a Seventies teenage antihero because he seemed to speak for the misfits, the rejects, the outcasts. He helped invent metal as we know it with Black Sabbath,
As millions of Ozzy Osbourne fans found out on the MTV reality show "The Osbournes," the Prince of Darkness wasn't anything like wild his rock-star stage persona – at home, he was sweet, gentle and mischeivous,
The man who called himself the Prince of Darkness has stepped into a kingdom he can no longer define. I admired Ozzy long before I feared God. I wasn’t raised in church. I wasn’t hardened either. Just … unanchored. I floated through my teens and twenties chasing noise, like so many do. Music filled the void. Metal was a friend that never judged.
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Wolfgang and his Mammoth bandmates heard of Ozzy’s passing during soundcheck – and knew that “just mentioning it wasn’t enough”
Ozzy Osbourne's legacy is huge. From rock god to reality TV star, the Prince of Darkness remained an icon for decades. Here's how.
Ozzy Osbourne was an unruly chaos agent and a beloved family man alike.