

Sometimes the Germans would just unload their bombs, and Osbourne happened to fall on top of one. Riding around on a 4x4, Osbourne lost control and fell into a pothole. He was filming an episode of The Osbournes at his farm in England. The first is a bit bizarre: He was almost a long-after-the-fact victim of the German bombardment of England during WWII. Osbourne has had two near-death experiences in recent times. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager.

"We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. And it was Tony Iommi who said, 'Isn't it weird that people pay money to see scary films? Why don't we start writing scary songs?' "įor a book that imparts so much about biting the heads off of doves and taking one drug after another, the dirty little secret of I Am Ozzy is that - God bless him - Ozzy loves Sharon. "We used to rehearse across the road from a movie theater. "How we started was we decided to write scary songs," Osbourne says. Girls reportedly ran away from Black Sabbath concerts in terror. Osbourne even had the opportunity to perform on the same stage as McCartney at the Queen's Jubilee, which you can watch on YouTube. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to meet Paul McCartney. "I bought the Beatle suit, the Beatle wig, the Beatle photographs - anything with The Beatles. "When I heard The Beatles, I said, 'That's it. For him, it was a way to get out of the working class. "The smell was just unbelievable."Īmong millions of others, Osbourne says The Beatles changed his life. "For the first two or three weeks, I did nothing but throw up," Osbourne says.

His first job was to cut open sheep stomachs and empty them. Perhaps more significant than Osbourne's career as a burglar (which put him in the slammer for a few months) was his time in the slaughterhouse. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it." "It's just one of those things people will remember me by. "I'm so over the dove, the bat," Osbourne says.
