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6.04.2003 -11:42 PM
'Osbournes' returning with new shows
NEW YORK (AP) -- School's out, but "The Osbournes" are back in session.
Ten new episodes of the MTV reality series will air throughout the summer, starting at 10:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday.
The cable music channel said Tuesday that the shows will follow Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne, and their various pets and friends, at their Los Angeles home and on the road.
The episodes were shot before Jack, the heavy metal star's 17-year-old son, entered rehab in late April for alcohol and marijuana abuse. Jack Osbourne, a part-time talent scout for Epic records, said at the time, "I got caught up in my new lifestyle and got carried away with drugs and alcohol."
Ozzy Osbourne said his son's newfound clean living has inspired him to give sobriety another try. He told People magazine for its June 16 issue that after decades of struggling with substance abuse, he hasn't touched any alcohol or marijuana in more than a month, and he's running about five miles a day.
"Jack and I are racing to be the first one to 100 days sober," Osbourne told the magazine.
"The Osbournes" won an Emmy last year for best reality series
by JAM Showbiz (Canada)
6.04.2003 - 06:39 AM
"The golden age of Ozzy"
Heavy metal madman Ozzy Osbourne is at the Pengrowth Saddledome
OUT AND ABOUT
Ozzy Osbourne, the king of heavy metal, the self-proclaimed prince of darkness, is scheduled to play the Saddledome tonight.
Don't let Page Six's short hair fool you, my heart sports a mullet.
In anticipation of the show, Page Six went Out and About yesterday and swung by Kane's Harley Diner to talk to folks about the heavy metal song, Ozzy or otherwise, that ranks right up there of all time.
by Calgary Sun
6.02.2003 - 06:39 AM
Oz 'n' Kelly show
OZZY OSBOURNE will share a bill with his daughter KELLY for the first time this summer.
Dad will perform shows in Wembley and Birmingham in September as part of a European tour. Kelly will open for him at both gigs.
The bat-biting former BLACK SABBATH frontman says: “I couldn’t be happier about doing my own dates in the UK and having Kelly there with me.”
by The Sun
5.31.2003 - 09:35 PM
Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne Team Up
LONDON (Reuters) - Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne will team up on stage for the first time with daughter Kelly
later this year, when he marks his career resurrection with his first British gigs in eight years, his Web Site said on Friday.
Decades after fronting the band Black Sabbath, Ozzy has won cult following on both sides of the Atlantic with his family --
wife Sharon, son Jack and daughter Kelly -- whose strange antics and foul language form the hit MTV reality show "The Osbournes."
The show's popularity helped tearaway 18-year-old Kelly win her own record deal and release the album "Shut Up."
"I couldn't be happier about doing my own dates in the UK and having Kelly on the bill with me," Ozzy said on the Web Site,
www.ozzynet.com. "I decided that this would be a great opportunity to bring my full stage show over to rock the UK."
The Osbourne duo will be joined by U.S. band Godsmack and Finland's H.I.M. for the gigs on September 5 in London and on September 7 in
Osbourne's home town of Birmingham.
by Yahoo
5.31.2003 - 09:29 PM
Ozzy Osbourne Getting Ready To Hit Canada
Ozzy Osbourne is getting ready to tour Canada starting Sunday (June 1), despite the fear of SARS keeping
other pop stars away. It helps that the tour starts in the west coast city of Vancouver, and it doesn't reach Toronto,
the major source of SARS concern, until June 11.
The tour will be Ozzy's first with new bass player Jason Newsted, who will pull double duty with his "other" band,
Canada's Voivod. Newsted said that Voivod is really supportive of him playing with Osbourne. "You know, I'm living this
dream being able to be a part of this thing and all that," Newsted. "So those guys are totally supportive of that too.
And Ozzy has been cool enough, and he's asked us, Voivod, to go out through Canada with him--besides OzzFest and all
that thing. So it's a huge blessing. This opportunity just came...whew."
The tour ends June 16 in Quebec City. After that, Osbourne will take a few weeks off before OzzFest kicks off in San Antonio,
Texas on June 28. Other bands set to appear on the metal fest include Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, and Korn, among others.
by Launch
5.15.2003 - 06:46 PM
OZZY OSBOURNE'S FATHER-IN-LAW BAILS OUT SHOOL
ROCK legend Ozzy Osbourne's father-in-law has intervened in the Higher Crumpsall/ Higher
Broughton Synagogue row with the Synagogue Council to settle the shool's debt with a burial
board.
Manchester born Don Arden (formerly Harry Levy), whose sister Eileen Somers is administrator
of the synagogue, was so grieved to hear of the shool's problems that this week he transferred
funds of £3,695 to cover the shortfall, plus a significant donation.
Don, now 77 and living in Los Angeles, where he bought Howard Hughes' former home, was a member
of Higher Crumpsall's choir and was barmitzvah there.
His daughter Sharon is married to Osbourne and Don himself is often seen in television's highly
rated Osbournes' family saga.
Rainsough Burial Board chairman Sonny Fromson confirmed to the Jewish Telegraph that they had
received £1,000 before Pesach and another £1,000 was sent by Higher Crumpsall this week, leaving
arrears of £3,695.
Mrs Somers said of her brother's gesture: "Don felt we needed a boost and wanted the shool to
continue. He has happy memories of it."
And Don himself, who was brought up in Cheetham, told the Jewish Telegraph: "Manchester's a very
good place to live in."
Mr Fromson was still far from happy though that the Hr Crumpsall was still in arrears.
"Whether it's £1,000 more or £1,000 less it doesn't matter," he told me.
"It doesn't alter the fact that the money is owed to the Rainsough Burial Board and we need this
to carry on." But an unrepentant Mrs Somers insisted: "The shool is not skint as has been suggested,
but we're an institution that is 75 years old and we need assistance. "We're not a penny in debt."
She added that by the time this story appeared, the debt would have been wiped out.
She also pledged that the Higher Crumpsall Synagogue would remain open for at least another two
byears "and maybe more".
Don Arden himself is a legandary name in the music business.
Having left school, Arden began his showbusiness career at 13 as a singer and stand-up comic
in Manchester.
In the 1960s, he began booking American rockers for European tours.
Then he started to manage major '60s acts like The Move and The Small Faces, before reaching a
commercial pinnacle in the 70s as manager of ELO and of singer Lynsey de Paul. He also founded
his own Jet record label.
Arden worked as an entertainer on the British variety circuit. He impersonated famous tenors,
like Caruso, and movie gangsters such as Edward G Robinson and George Raft.
At weekends, Yiddish-speaking Don wowed Jewish audiences with his Al Jolson routine.
In 1954 he became a showbiz agent and started organising Hebrew folk song contests, then putting
together his own shows.
He signed up American rock'n'roller, Gene Vincent, in 1960 and for several years brought over
American rock'n'rollers including Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent to tour Britain.
by jewish telegraph
5.14.2003 - 09:26 AM
Osbourne FM
Rock vs Dance
You might think there was no new topic left for the Osbourne clan to fight about however
the ever-vocal Ozzy and his similarly argumentative son from his first marriage, Louis,
are fighting a furious transatlantic battle over what music should be played on a Birmingham
local radio station.
West Midlands FM is at the centre of the row as Brummie ex- Black Sabbath front
man and his dance music DJ son are backing rival bids to buy the licence.
Ozzy wants it to play rock, and be the home station of bands like (surprise, surprise)
Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin, Louis wants it to play dance music and has been offered a show
if Jump FM win the deal.
Louis says 'I'm not a rock fan and I would be playing very different music to my dad's.
I won't be wearing leather or growing my hair long he added.
Brummie Ozzy, never one to mince his words said: 'The sort of music Louis plays always goes on
for
fucking hours and sounds the same. The best bit about it is the fucking end.'
Louis told The Sun: "I'm not a rock fan and I would be playing very different music to my
dad's.
I won't be growing long hair and wearing leather either."
Ozzy said: "It's obvious the birthplace of rock bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin
should
have a rock station for people who live there.
"The sort of music Louis plays always goes on for f****** hours and sounds the same.
The best bit about it is the f****** end."
by peoplenews/thesun
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