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Mar 19th, 2004
Big mistake made in honor to Randy Rhoads
There was so much money, excitement, mystery, etc. to promote an event, yet those in charge of organizing the event didn't take the time to :
"spellcheck" the plate of the honored.
This is what happens when something is made by careless people or those who don't know anything about the person.
(Fanzmosis Ozzy's International Fanclub)
Mar 19th, 2004
Randy Rhoads, late Ozzy Osbourne guitarist, honored on 'Rockwalk'
LOS ANGELES - Randy Rhoads, the guitarist behind Ozzy Osbourne's most acclaimed solo work, was posthumously honored Thursday with a bronze bust on Hollywood's Rockwalk.
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(Fanzmosis Ozzy's International Fanclub)
Mar 17th, 2004 - 3:17 AM
OZZY TOURS BATTLESHIP MISSOURI
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (March 9, 2004) – Heavy Metal rock star and reality television hit Ozzy Osboune and his wife Sharon, tour the battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) while filming their MTV show "The Osbournes" in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Mar 15, 04 - 7:43 AM
Guitarist Zakk Wylde will be homage guitarist Randy Rhoads
March 18, at 1pm, Randy Rhoads will be inducted into the Rock Walk at the Guitar Center, Los Angeles store on Sunset Blvd. Zakk will be there to honor Randy.
www.zakkwylde.com
http://www.rockwalk.com/RWupcoming/
Mar 10, 04 - 5:28 AM
Ozzy in Kahala
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne, second from right, makes his way into a van with his wife, Sharon, in front of him, and television crews behind, after having lunch with his wife and friends, Monday March 8, 2004, at the Kahala Mandarin Oriential Hotel in the upscale section of Kahala near Honolulu. The Osbournes are visiting the Hawaiian island filming upcoming segments of their popular MTV show.
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Feb 18, 2004
Ozzfest 2004 - Confirmed Bands!
The press conference to announce the “lineup” exact for Ozzfest of this year it will happen on Friday, February 20 at 11:00 of the morning PST in Avalon (1735 N. Vine Street) in Hollywood, California.
In the conference for press will be disclosed among another to the dates and the names of the Bands that will be part of the festival of this year.
Ozzfest of this year will be formed for:
Main Stage:
OZZY OSBOURNE
JUDAS PRIEST
SLAYER
DIMMU BORGIR
SUPERJOINT RITUAL
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
Second Stage:
SLIPKNOT
HATEBREED
LAMB OF GOD
Rotating:
ATREYU
BLEEDING THROUGH
LACUNA COIL
EVERY TIME I DIE
UNEARTH
GOD FORBID
(Source: official)
Feb 14, 2004
Summary of the First Annual Fanzmosis Charity Auction
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Charity Auction.
We collected a total of $771.12 (minus the eBay fees of $41.26) and will be donating the remainder of
$729.86 in American dollars (the value is tripled in Brazilian currency) to the Hospital of Cancer of SP.
Once the funds have been transferred I will be posting the voucher of receipt from the hospital.
Once again, thank you so much for helping those less fortunate.
- Fanzmosis team
Feb 12, 2004
The Arrival of Ozzfest, the largest festival of summer!
After all the rumors and speculation of who will join Ozzy as he tours with Ozzfest this year, the official "word"
will be released February 20th. Stay "tuned", you won't want to miss it!
(Source: Official/Fanzmosis)
Jan 22, 2004
Ozzy wants to have another child
Sharon Osbourne says husband Ozzy has pleaded with her to have another child.
But Sharon told her husband, who'd just been released from hospital after a quad bike accident, that he must wait, says The Sun.
She said: "That's all Ozzy is talking about at the moment. He was saying, 'Let's have one more'. I'm not so sure. We'd end up being geriatric parents. I'd rather have another dog. But we'll see."
Sharon added: "My husband is a bloody nutter. He wanted sex the week he came out of hospital. I was like, 'Are you f*****g nuts?' I hurt just looking at you.
"Can you imagine humping someone with a great big metal neck brace on and his arm in a sling? I was scared to even touch him. He had eight broken ribs, a broken neck, he's got a metal bar for a collarbone. He's out of his mind.
"But now he has a softer brace to wear at night and he's easier to cuddle. We've got our sex life back. Ozzy's back in the old pit with his missus," she said.
(Source: TheSun/ananova)
Jan 18, 2004
Ozzy thanks doctors
Ozzy Osbourne has thanks medics who helped save his life before flying home to LA following his quad-bike crash.
He returned to Wexham Park Hospital, where he spent eight days in a coma after the crash on his Buckinghamshire estate on December 8.
During his return trip to the Slough hospital, the former Black Sabbath star donated money, signed autographs and posed for photographs, according to the News of the World.
When medical director Dr Dick Jack thanked him for returning Ozzy said: "I don't know what your are thinking me for. I nearly f**king died. The treatment here was first class. I'm really grateful."
Ozzy fractured his collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra when the 600-pound vehicle he was riding flipped and landed on top of him at his estate in Buckinghamshire.
(Source: ananova)
Jan 17, 2004
Ozzy Osbourne Returns To U.S. After Accident
Ozzy Osbourne is back on U.S. soil after injuring himself in an all-terrain vehicle accident in England more than a month ago, according to the Associated Press.
His wife, Sharon Osbourne, told her talk-show audience during the episode she taped Thursday in Los Angeles that her husband had returned to their house in Beverly Hills, Calif., the previous night.
"I am so happy he's home I can't begin to tell you, but my poor husband is in so much agony, still in so much pain, he couldn't sleep all night and the one thing is ... he's got this metal rod ... instead of a collarbone now," she said during "The Sharon Osbourne Show" airing Jan. 22.
"I am just so happy that he's home 'cause all the time I ... felt so lonely, like I've lost something," she added. "You know that feeling when you know you've lost something and what is it? It's like, 'Oh, it's my husband!'"
The 55-year-old metal star stopped breathing twice and was in a coma for eight days after the Dec. 8 crash.
He fractured his collarbone, eight ribs and a neck vertebra when the 600-pound vehicle he was riding flipped and landed on top of him at his estate in Buckinghamshire, southern England. He spent a week on a ventilator.
(Source: Blabbermouth.net)
Jan 14, 2004 06:29 AM
OZZFEST 2004
While Ozzy is still in the UK, his punctured artery has nearly healed enough
(it is not advisable to fly with an injury such as this) for him to return home to Beverly Hills
within the next couple of weeks. It is reported that he is doing great and is up walking around,
although it will take a few months for him to fully recover.
The absolutely great news is that Ozzy will be healed in time for Ozzfest!
Yes Ozzy will return to Ozzfest this summer for a two month long trek across the USA in July and August.
So get your TicketMaster trigger fingers ready!!
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by Gwenna
Jan 13, 2004 04:26 AM
Iommi Speaks About Future Sabbath Album
Yes, it's no secret the four of us have been together off & on
now for some time now, 7 years solid I do believe & yes we have
all recorded some really great material & we did have intentions
of discussing this frontier shortly, then the accident happened.
On that note we all are aside with our goodies & awaiting as to
what Ozzy will be like in the future.
Perhaps 2005 will be the year we launch something. I really don't know either.
But if you look at the big picture, none of us are putting any solo work out
anytime soon.
Read into that the way you will
by Drip
Dec 12, 2003 11:29 PM
Ozzy Update
Sharon, Aimee, Kelly and Jack want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and concern for Ozzy following his accident on Monday at his home in Buckinghamshire, England in which he broke eight ribs, his collarbone and a vertebra which requires him to have a 7 inch steel plate attached to the back of his neck. Ozzy needed to have emergency surgery to repair an artery that had been damaged during the accident.
Here's an update on how Ozzy's doing today:
According to,Dr. Dick Jack, the Medical Director at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, south England, "Mr Osbourne had a good, comfortable night. He is progressing well, but slowly. With each day he becomes less dependent on the ventilator. It is still too early to take him off entirely."
Kelly briefly addressed the media at the hospital on Wednesday to update the press on her dad's condition. Kelly said, "he woke up today, but he can't speak because of the tube. He's able to mouth words and he told us he loved us. He's been complaining about the nurses, so we know he's all right. He gave me the thumbs up and stuck his tongue out at me."
Sharon spoke about Ozzy's progress via a videotaped message that aired on her daytime talk show in the U.S. Sharon remarked that "Ozzy is doing really well. He's still in the ICU, but he's doing really good - he's very stable."
Contrary to rumors that Ozzy's doctors have said that he may not be able to get back on stage for a year, please note that no such statements have been made. Ozzy has had no vocal cord or windpipe damage whatsoever.
Dr. Jack promises that he "will give a further update on Mr. Osbourne's condition on Monday morning."
Please check in at www.ozzy.com for updates on Ozzy's condition.
by Ozzy's office
Dec 12, 2003 5:36 PM
Ozzy Update December 12th
Mr. Osbourne had a good, comfortable night. He is progressing well, but slowly. With each day he becomes less dependent on the ventilator. It is still too early to take him off entirely. Otherwise he is well, with no complications.
We will give you further updates regularly on Ozzy's condition through
www.ozzy.com
by Dr. Jack, Medical Director
Dec 9, 03 - 3:11 AM
Update: OZZY 'Stable' After Quad Bike Crash - Dec. 9, 2003
icBirmingham is reporting that Ozzy Osbourne was described as "stable and comfortable" after breaking eight ribs, a collarbone and a vertebra in his neck in a quad bike accident.
Osbourne was taken to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough yesterday after the accident at his Buckinghamshire estate.
The hospital's medical director Dr. Dick Jack said that he had spent the night in intensive care after emergency surgery which restored the blood flow to a blood vessel damaged in the accident.
Dr. Jack said that the fractured vertebra was "entirely stable" and added that blood supply to his left hand and arm, which had been impeded by the damage to the blood vessel, had been restored.
He was unable to confirm whether other members of the Osbourne family were expected at the hospital today.
Speaking outside the hospital, Dr. Jack said: "First of all, may I confirm that Mr. Ozzy Osbourne was brought in yesterday following an accident at home.
"When he was admitted, he had a fractured left collarbone, he had some damage to the blood vessel that is underneath it, he had eight fractured ribs on the left side and, in addition to that, an entirely stable fracture to one of the vertebrae in his neck. This is not a major problem."
Dr. Jack added that Osbourne was "resting", with doctors due to reassess his situation this morning.
by internet/ananova
Dec,09.2003
Ozzy has emergency surgery after quad bike crash
Ozzy Osbourne is recovering in hospital after being seriously injured in a quad bike accident.
The 55-year-old singer broke his collarbone, six ribs and a vertebra in the accident on Monday at his estate near Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.
He was given treatment at the scene by paramedics before being taken to hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.
It is not clear how the accident happened. Osbourne's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
A statement issued by his US publicists said: "Ozzy is currently undergoing emergency surgery to lift the collarbone which is believed to be resting on a major artery interrupting blood flow to his arm.
"Surgeons are also working to alleviate some bleeding into his lungs. These injuries are not considered to be life-threatening."
A spokesman for Two Shires ambulance service said they had been alerted to the accident by a 999 call at 2.18pm.
One ambulance from Chalfont ambulance station with two paramedics onboard was immediately sent to the rocker's estate where it arrived at 2.21pm. Osbourne was given treatment at the scene, before being taken to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, the spokesman said.
The vocalist had been taking a day off from a UK promotional tour to publicise Changes, a duet with his daughter Kelly, when the accident happened
by internet/ananova
Dec,08.2003
OZZY SIGNED CD TO BENEFIT BRAZIL'S CANCER HOSPITAL
Brazil's Cancer Hospital needs your help to purchase equipment and to continue to save the lives of thousands of children and adults.
Bid at eBay!
Dec,05, 2003
"PARANOID" CD SIGNED BY OZZY FOR AUCTION TO BENEFIT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Amnesty International, the world's largest grassroots human rights organization, has enlisted a stellar roster of musicians from the world of popular music for an online charity auction. The Amnesty International Music For Human Rights Skateboard Deck and Holiday Auction, begins on Dec. 5th and will run for 7 days. Please see
amnestyusa.org/musicforhumanrights for more info.
by ozzy.com
Dec,01.2003 - 11:09 PM
Sharon admits cheating on Ozzy with his guitarist
Sharon Osbourne says she once cheated on Ozzy with his guitarist and best friend Randy Rhoads.
She spills the beans in the family's book, Ordinary People: Our Story, which is serialised in The Sun.
Sharon talks frankly about the couple's three-way relationship with Rhoads before his death in a 1982 air crash.
She said: "When I talk about the early days of the love affair between Ozzy and me, I have to be honest - it wasn't just the two of us.
"Randy was a vital part of the tale. He was the softer, kinder, more understanding peacemaker. When Ozzy and I weren't speaking we turned to Randy, and when we were on loving terms he was there too.
"On the road we often ended up in the back of the tour bus together, watching TV at three in the morning and dozing off without thinking anything of it. Other times it just felt good to be together.
"Not that we were having sex with each other. There was one time I was with Randy. Ozzy knows about it but has never wanted to discuss it. That's his way of dealing with it.
"Ozzy knows the one-time occurrence was loving, not lustful. And he was just as in love with Randy as I was. He still cries when talking about Randy. So do I."
In the book, Ozzy writes: "In a way, we've never lost Randy completely. We continue to play his music and every year on March 19, the day of the plane crash, Sharon and I light a candle for our friend and cry."
by ananova
Dec,01.2003 - 11:09 PM
book- Ordinary People: Our Story, By The Osbournes
OZZY OSBOURNE is the rock wildman other rock wildmen look at in awe.
His excesses go way beyond sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll - trying to
kill his wife, for instance.
Amazingly the working-class Birmingham boy, who shot to fame with
heavy metal band Black Sabbath in 1970, has beaten drink and drugs
to become an icon.
His reality TV show The Osbournes, littered with four-letter outbursts,
is a global hit and he has even met the Queen and President Bush.
Now Ozzy, 55 on Wednesday, wife Sharon and children Kelly, Jack and
Aimee, have written a book about their family life, Ordinary People:
Our Story.
All five tell their stories in an eye-opening Sun series. We start
with Ozzy . . . trying to murder his missus.
In 1989, at the height of his drinking and drug-taking, Ozzy emerged
from a five-day vodka binge to tell Sharon: "We've decided we're going
to kill you." He then tried to strangle her. Sharon hit a panic button,
calling police to their house, and Ozzy was arrested.
Here he tells what happened next . . .
I COULDN'T remember anything that had happened when I woke up in the
prison cell. All I knew was that I felt like crap and was not sure why
I was there.
Shaking and sick, I asked the guard if he knew the charges.
When I heard him say "attempted murder" of my wife, I couldn't believe
a word. "Could you read that again?" I asked.
He turned to a page on a clipboard and read: "John Michael Osbourne, you
are hereby charged with attempted murder of your wife, Sharon Rachel
Osbourne.
I spent the weekend in that cell and I couldn't have felt sicker. Without
anything to drink, smoke or swallow, I went through two days of painful
withdrawal that made every part of my body ache.
When I finally walked into court, I saw Sharon across the room. As soon
as our eyes met, I started to cry.
Though we couldn't speak, I hoped she saw how sorry I was. I pleaded not
guilty by reason of temporary insanity, but I was saved when Sharon told
the judge she didn't want to press charges.
At her suggestion, I was sentenced to three months of rehab at Huntercombe
Manor, a drug and alcohol treatment centre in Buckinghamshire. I wasn't
allowed any contact with Sharon or the children, unless it was authorized
by the rehab's doctors and agreed to by my wife.
People do all sorts of s**t when they drink. I used to be a wife beater.
I'm not proud of it but I will own up to the fact.
I think it's wrong. I don't know why she stayed.
I love Sharon more than life itself. And I love my children. I haven't
always been the greatest guy. I used to do crazy things.
The way I felt when I hit Sharon is the same way I feel right now thinking
about it. I hate myself.
Sharon started coming to visit about a month into my stay. A few weeks
later she brought the kids, who broke my heart when they said: "Bye, Daddy.
Get better soon." As for treatment, I survived.
Groupies
I STILL remember our first American tour. It was October 1970. Black Sabbath's
first album was out and the biggest thing a British band could do was tour
the States.
Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham was the first to congratulate me. He
said: "It is very cool." Then he added with a grin: "But before you go, make
sure your d*** is rested and you've got plenty of penicillin." One thing about
Sabbath - we were a great f***ing band. Another thing about Sabbath - we were
great at f***ing.
In England, you'd meet a girl, take her to a movie and buy her a drink. Three
weeks later you might get your hand on her left breast. It took time.
Not in America. The fun started as soon as we got off the plane.
I checked into the hotel about 9pm. By 9.15pm there was a knock at the door.
I figured it was one of the guys forgetting something, but it was a girl.
She had a great body - not that I noticed anything after I heard her say
she wanted to ball me.
"Ball me?" I said. "Do you mean you want to play ball?"
"No, let me show you what I mean," she said. And for the next few hours
she sucked my brains out.
Though we were still pre-Aids, there was still the clap. I remember going
to a doctor, slightly embarrassed and said I had a pain in my lower back.
The doctor asked if I happened to be with the other guys. Then he opened
the adjoining door and I saw the band with their pants down and a nurse
with a handful of syringes.
Booze and Drugs
EVERYONE has a button in them waiting to be pressed. Or at least in some
people it's a button, in others it's a stick of dynamite. I have both.
One was pressed by The Beatles and one was hit by drink and drugs.
John Bonham once took me to a restaurant and ordered 24 bottles of
champagne. That made even a heavy-duty alcoholic like me ask what was
going on.
Straight-faced he said: "We're going to have a race. We'll see who can
Drink the most."
After years on the road I can tell you it ain't that good or grand as
people think. Once you get over the initial thing of late nights, chicks
and parties, it wears thin. The schedule is always the same. I watched
too many highway signs pass by my bleary eyes.
Back then I had three and often more well-balanced meals a day, consisting
of grass, speed, vodka, Quaaludes (an anti-depressant) and acid. I tried
heroin twice, but got too violently ill to like it. Thank God for blessings
like that or I'd have died long ago.
The amount of alcohol could be staggering too. Some nights I downed three
or four bottles of vodka. None of it made me feel any good, but I
couldn't stop myself.
The Alamo
NO ONE has to tell me to remember the Alamo. I showed up at the Texas
landmark wearing my wife's dress and holding a bottle of cognac.
Despite the photographer's reservations, I convinced him to go ahead
with the shoot. As he changed the film in his camera, I needed to take
a leak.
I relieved myself against an old wall, as I'm sure countless dedicated,
patriotic and drunken soldiers had done 100 years earlier when they were
shooting at attacking Mexican fighters.
But by February 1982 times had clearly changed. The policeman told me: "Son,
when you piss on the Alamo, you piss on the State of Texas."
After a night in jail I was banned from playing San Antonio ever again.
Though it was rescinded in 1992, no one could have imagined that in another
ten years I would be trading jokes with the President of the United States,
a former Texas governor.
But if you live long enough or through enough, you learn one thing is true -
all sins can be forgiven.
Fame
AT 53 I suddenly went from being Ozzy to OZZY. I met the Queen of England.
I met the President of the United States. And I'm still Ozzy, you know.
This year we had a huge party. My house was turned into this place that
I could hardly recognise.
A dance floor was put up. People were running all over with hors d'oeuvres.
Tony Bennett sang in the back yard. I turned around and there was Sylvester
Stallone and Elton John. My wife was hanging out with Elizabeth Taylor.
The scene hit me like a brick. I had a problem dealing with it. I made
Tony Bennett walk into a quiet room.
"Tony," I said, "I'm from a working class background. I woke up this morning
and I thought, 'I have a house in Beverly Hills, a house in Malibu, I've
got three houses in London, plus a farm.
"I fly around in private jets. And now I have Sir Elton John and Dame
Elizabeth Taylor in my house. Pretty wild, eh?" Tony smiled. I said: "Well,
tell me this - how the f*** did this happen?"
"I don't know, Ozzy."
I looked back for a moment and told him straight: "I don't f***ing know either."
Raising a Family
I'M never going to say anything bad about my family, but here's the main
thing about the Osbournes - they are all out of their effing minds.
My wife and kids are insane. I'm the one who actually thinks things through.
If there is one message I want to get across it is love your family, no
matter what.
I have strong opinions about drinking, drugs and sex.
They nearly f***ing killed me. I don't know of a better example for my
kids than my f***ed-up past.
But then I think back to when I caught my father with a cigarette in his
mouth and he said: "Ozzy, if I ever catch you smoking, I'll break your arm."
Of course, I spent the next 30 f***ing years smoking like a chimney.
Kids always do the opposite of whatever their parents tell them. That's a
fact of f***ing life, man.
Health
When I was growing up in Birmingham, I had one shirt, one pair of pants,
one pair of socks, shoes and a jacket. I was always dirty and smelly. The
kids teased me unmercifully, which is why years down the road, I spent
the first bit of money I earned from music on drugs and strong f***ing cologne.
I think I'm a biological miracle. Obviously my time isn't up yet.
Ordinary People: Our Story, by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne with Aimee, Kelly
and Jack. Published by Simon & Schuster on December 4.
press /amazon.co.uk
Dec,01.2003 - 11:09 PM
Ozzy & Kelly On Friday Night with Jonothan Ross
Ozzy and Kelly will be appearing on Friday Night with Jonothan Ross
this week on bbc1 in the UK.
bbc
Dec,01.2003 - 11:09 PM
Ozzy , I Was Sexually Abused As a Child
Around Ozzy Osbourne the chaos that is his everyday life continues
unabated. As MTV crews roam the house, the rest of his family is
good-naturedly preparing for a Thanksgiving feast the following day.
The laughter from upstairs at his Beverly Hills mansion, however,
is in sharp contrast to the mood in the lounge.
Leaning back on the opulent sofa, Ozzy's voice drops to almost a
whisper as he admits: "I was sexually abused when I was a kid."
His eyes, hidden behind mirrored shades, look upwards as he pauses
to remember.
"Two boys used to wait for me to come home after school. Then they
would f**k around with me. They didn't f**k me but they messed
around with me.
"They would force me to drop my pants and all that s**t. They felt
me and touched me and...it was terrible. The first time it happened
was in front of my sister and that affected me even more.
"It became a regular thing on the way home from school. It seemed
to go on forever."
Born into a poor working-class family in post-war Birmingham, sexual
abuse was not a subject that could be mentioned at home. Terrified
and full of shame, 11-year-old Ozzy bottled up his emotions.
It was only this year, as his wife Sharon battled cancer, that the
rocker finally began to come to terms with how the abuse has shaped
his life.
"Everything when you are a kid affects you in later life," he says,
before taking a large gulp of coffee from his huge mug. "If you build
a wall with rocky foundations you are going to have pretty unstable
wall when it's finished.
"My parents would fight a lot and money was scarce. There were eight
of us in a two-bedroom house. Then that happened and for the rest
of my childhood I was forever running with fear.
"I was afraid to tell my father or mother and it completely f****d me
up. Dirty little secrets fester and that is one of the first things
I said to my kids.
"When I was a kid, people did not talk about these things like they
do now. You didn't have chat shows talking about child molestation.
It used to be the Woodentops and Bill and Ben.
"I worked it out with a therapist. But if you have a traumatic
experience when you are young it does f**k you up. Sharon knows
all about it and it was only with her that I could finally relax
and be myself."
The traumatised teenager grew up to front one of the biggest bands
of all time - Black Sabbath.
But the singer admits that beneath the rock god exterior was still a
frightened little boy who had never dealt with the trauma of the abuse.
"Throughout my life I have always been dodgy with my nerves and I
always thought I was a nervous guy.
"I always get stage fright and people go 'you old f****r, you have
been doing it longer than Tutankhamun'. But I'm a nervous kind of guy."
Laughing at last, he adds: "Back in the Seventies I may have looked
confident but I was stoned most of the time."
By any standards in Ozzy's rollercoaster of a life, this has been a
tumultuous couple of years. He has seen his family become worldwide
icons after agreeing to have every their every moment filmed by MTV.
He has been hailed by President Bush and played for the Queen at her
jubilee celebrations. But then things began to fall badly apart as
Ozzy, who was once arrested and put into rehab for trying to strangle
his wife, began drinking heavily again after six "dry" years. At the
same time, his 17-year-old son Jack's alcoholism and drug addiction
brought him close to suicide.
Both father and son, ironically, began down the road of abuse when
Sharon was diagnosed with cancer of the colon.
"We were in England doing the jubilee thing and she was there to
present it for VH1. The ratings for the show were going through
the roof and we were at Buckingham Palace and this feeling came over me.
"I said 'This is too f***ing good...something bad is going to come
down'. Normally she would say 'Just enjoy it while you can'. But she
says 'You know what? I have been thinking exactly the same'."
A routine medical last summer revealed the cancer and the family
went into freefall.
"One of the advantages of being me is I could afford to take her
in to hospital there and then to have it removed. She was so
f***ing ill.
"I was touring and I would fly straight back to LA on a private
jet and the arguments I had with f***ing doctors and nurses were
incredible. She would be fine one minute and deathly the next.
"The chemotherapy she had ain't a bundle of fun. It's like having
a broken nose and someone every day punching your broken nose to
make it better.
I had to physically carry her to the hospital on more than six
occasions because she was so f****d up by the cancer and the
chemotherapy. I never really stopped drinking but I started
hitting it heavily again while she was fighting the cancer.
"I couldn't sleep with her because I was terribly frightened of
waking up next to a dead body. I just didn't want to wake up to
my wife dead.
"So I would drink myself into a stupor and fall asleep on the
couch. Sharon would be in bed when I would drink. I would just
find myself in a heap on the floor the next day."
Sharon, too weak from the chemotherapy, left him to it. But this
spring, with her cancer in remission she gave him an ultimatum
the drink or her. When he refused to quit boozing, she moved out.
"She left me for four days. The day after she left I got on a
plane to Boston and went into hospital to find out what the
problem was. I think I have had one glass of wine since and I
thought 'What are you doing'? I am not a George Best - thank God.
"But, believe me, I would love to get f****d up. We were watching
an old film in bed the other day and there was an old English pub
in it. I do miss them and I do miss the craic in the pubs."
The visit to the Boston hospital cleared up not only Ozzy's drinking
but also laid to rest his abiding fear that he was suffering from
the onset of Parkinson's disease. His shuffling walk and shaking
hands have turned him into a parody. Yet they betrayed something
more than a body that has been used and abused for most of its 54 years.
Neurologists had prescribed him with a staggering 30 different
pills a day to cure the problem. Combined with the drinking, his
condition worsened.
His hands as steady as a rock as he clutches his freshly refilled
coffee mug, he says: "Over the years this tremor has got steadily
worse. I have only just found out it is something I inherited from
my parents called a non-specific hereditary tremor.
"I rang my sister June afterwards and asked her if anyone in the
family had a tremor as I had just been diagnosed as having this
hereditary tremor and she goes 'Oh, not you as well'.
"I couldn't believe it and I'm thinking to myself when I was 21 it
would have been nice for my dad to have sat me down and said 'When
you get to 50 you may start shaking. Don't worry, we all do'.
"Now I am only taking two pills three times a day and I feel a hell
of a lot better for it. But the side-effect from one of the pills
is a dry mouth which is giving me real grief. It is affecting my
singing as my mouth just goes."
Sitting back in his Los Angeles mansion, with two tiny cameras on
the walls filming us constantly for the TV show, Ozzy appears to
have grown accustomed to having his every movement and utterance
taped and ready for playback.
Occasionally, a camera crew pop into the room from their temporary
studio in the garage.
But the fame does have its drawbacks - something the singer can
find humour in.
AS soon as you get success in this town you get sued. I am getting
sued every week - every f***ing week. Some guy last week now says
that he invented the Osbournes. I am supposed to have fathered
some kid in New York but even the authorities thought that was a
load of bull.
"Me with all my jewellery," he says, jangling his gold medallion
and rings, "would last about five seconds in the Bronx.
"I have got the point where I am too paranoid to go out. The one
thing they always put on the lawsuits is 'Ever since Ozzy Osbourne
looked at me with those satanic eyes I can't have sex'."
Laughing heartily, it is clear that Sharon and his family are the
most important things in his life.
Into the room bounds daughter Kelly, who is about to leave for
Britain to promote her new single - a duet with her dad of the
classic Sabbath song Changes.
He hugs her fiercely as the camera crew swoops in out of nowhere.
After the flurry of excitement, he sits back down on the sofa to
reflect on the strange position he finds himself.
"I honestly don't understand my life," he laughs in a rather
bashful manner. "I have had a f***ing incredible life and, believe
me, I haven't taken it for granted. I'm dyslexic and I suffer from
attention deficit disorder.
"I'm 55 on December 3. How I have survived is a miracle but sooner
or later something will go wrong.
"If it wasn't for my wife I wouldn't be this f***ing icon, I
wouldn't be a success, I would be long dead.
"She is the greatest thing, the greatest love of my life and there
is not a woman in the world who I would want to spend the rest of
my life with."
And with a smile, Ozzy walks, not shuffles, off back into the chaos
of his home - and the arms of his wife.
Nov,12.2003 - 11:59 PM
Fanzmosis eBay Benefit Auction
Fanzmosis, International Fanclub of Ozzy Osbourne has teamed up with the Hospital of Cancer - SP- Brazil for the first annual Fanzmosis online charity auction. It will be held December 3, 2003 through December 23, 2003 and the Charity Auction page will be updated continuously.
Hosted by eBay, the auction will feature rotating items for bid. The auction this year includes 2 autographed CDs donated for this event by the Osbourne office and other Ozzy and Fanzmosis items.
Click here for a complete list of items.
by fanzmosis fanclub
Nov,11.2003 - 11:19 AM
Ozzy cancels Irish gig
Ozzy has had to cancel his Irish show for the 4th time in a row!.
Ozzy Osbourne's promoters have said it has not been possible to reschedual his show that was postponed in October .
Source: MCD.ie
Written by Deco_kh
11.01.2003 - 07:25 AM
CHOOSE YOUR OWN OZZFEST!
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by ozzfest
10.27.2003 - 09:53 PM
Ozzy and Kelly to bid for Christmas top slot
Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter Kelly are making a joint bid for the Christmas number one.
The pair are to release a duet, Changes, on December 8 hoping to cash in on the seasonal market.
It is the first time they have sung together on record, but they face tough competition from Pop Idol finalists and The Darkness.
The original version of Changes appeared on Black Sabbath Volume 4, released in 1972, but the words have been rewritten to reflect the relationship between a father and daughter as they grow older.
The Pop Idol finalists are favourites for the Christmas number one with their version of Happy Xmas (War Is Over).
by ananova
10.27.2003 - 08:53 AM
OZZY OSBOURNE's rescheduled European tour
More dates have been announced for OZZY OSBOURNE's rescheduled European tour, which
is now slated to kick off in January.
Dates confirmed so far are as follows:
Jan. 15 - Oberhausen, GER @ KöPi-Arena
Jan. 20 - Copenhagen, DEN @ Valbyhallen
Jan. 22 - Gothenburg, SWE @ Scandinavium
Jan. 24 - Oslo, NOR @ Spektrum
Jan. 26 - Stockholm, SWE @ Globen
Jan. 28 - Helsinki, FIN @ Hartwall Areena
Jan. 31 - Leipzig, GER @ Messehalle 7
Feb. 02 - Berlin, GER @ Arena Treptow
Feb. 15 - München, GER @ Olympiahalle
Feb. 17 - Stuttgart, GER @ Schleyerhalle
More shows will be announced soon. No support bands have yet been announced for the trek, which has been postponed twice due to Ozzy's health problems.
Finnish goth-metallers H.I.M., who were set to occupy the middle slot on the original tour, will not be supporting OSBOURNE on the rescheduled trek.
sent by Ozzy's fan Don Lopez
10.26.2003 - 06:02 AM
Tricks and treats - FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2003
The Sharon Osbourne Show!
Tricks and treats are in store for Sharon's special Halloween Howl Show! Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, Shannen Doherty and Dennis Rodman join Sharon for an unforgettable hour.
by sharon osbourne
10.26.2003 - 06:00 AM
Sharon Osbourne Breast Mold
Painted by professional snowboarder Tina Basich
As seen on "The Sharon Osbourne Show"!
Check out this one-of-a-kind breast mold of the Osbourne family matriarch Sharon Osbourne painted by professional snowboarder Tina Basich.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Tina appeared on "The Sharon Osbourne Show" on October 23, 2003 to promote Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC).
This mold is being auctioned off as a fundraiser for B4BC.
Good luck and happy bidding!
Click here for more information about the Breast Mold
by sharon osbourne / ebay
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