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Ozzy Osbourne will christen 2005 with the release of his BIBLE OF OZZ box set February 8 on Epic Records. A testament to the iconic rocker’s 25-year solo career, the four-CD, 52-song set chronicles OZZY’s biggest hits and most memorable collaborations while including a separate disc with 10 newly recorded versions of his favorite songs by other artists, including: the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil,” Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen” and Mott The Hoople’s David Bowie-penned “All The Young Dudes.” The BIBLE OF OZZ will arrive in a weathered, collectable gothic book with new hallowed images of OZZY taken by famed British photographer/artist Sam Taylor Wood. It will be packaged with a 60-page booklet with a career overview and rare OZZY photos.

The first two BIBLE OF OZZ discs will encompass re-mastered versions of the Grammy Award-winning artist’s most popular solo smashes, with “Crazy Train,” “Mr. Crowley,” “Diary Of A Madman,” “Crazy Babies” and “No More Tears.” In addition, the discs will resurrect epic live performances (“Bark At The Moon,” “Flying High Again,” “Suicide Solution”) and rare demos (“Mama, I’m Coming Home,” “I Don’t Want To Change The World,” “See You On The Other Side”).

Titled Oddities and Duets, the third disc is comprised of some of OZZY’s most unusual collaborations, such as “For Heaven’s Sake” with the Wu-Tang Clan,  “Born To Be Wild” with Miss Piggy, “Nowhere To Run (Vapor Trail)” with the Crystal Method, DMX, and ‘Ol Dirty Bastard and the Bee Gees classic “Stayin’ Alive” with Dweezil Zappa.

For the set’s special fourth disc Under Covers, OZZY went into the studio recently to record covers of the songs he covets most, including: “In My Life” (the Beatles), “21st Century Schizoid Man” (King Crimson), and “For What It’s Worth” (Buffalo Springfield).  Keeping with his tradition of working with only the finest rock guitarists, OZZY was joined by Jerry Cantrell, Robert Randolph and Leslie West.

The BIBLE OF OZZ will arrive amidst a blizzard of OZZY activity. On October 25th MTV will unveil OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE’s new reality show ‘BATTLE FOR OZZFEST,’ which pits hungry young bands against one another for a shot at performing at the career-making OZZFEST.  In January 2005, MTV will launch the final season of the hugely successful reality show ‘THE OSBOURNES.'

OZZY OSBOURNE’s BIBLE OF OZZ track list:
CD 1
1. I Don’t Know (live)
2. Mr. Crowley
3. Crazy Train
4. Goodbye To Romance (live)
5. Suicide Solution (live)
6. Over The Mountain
7. Flying High Again (live)
8. You Can’t Kill Rock And Roll
9. Diary Of A Madman
10. Bark At The Moon (live b-side)
11. Spiders (b-side)
12. Rock And Roll Rebel
13. You’re No Different
14. Dee

CD 2
1. Ultimate Sin (live)
2. Never Know Why (live)
3. Thank God For The Bomb (live)
4. Crazy Babies
5. Breaking All The Rules
6. I Don’t Want To Change The World (demo)
7. Mama, I’m Coming Home (demo)
8. Desire (demo)
9. No More Tears (single version)
10. Won’t Be Coming Home (demo)
11. Perry Mason (live from ozzfest live album)
12. See You On The Other Side (demo)
13. Walk On Water (demo)
14. Gets Me Through (live)
15. Bang Bang (original demo for “Facing Hell”)
16. Dreamer

CD 3
1. Iron Man (Ozzy Osbourne With Therapy)
2. N.I.B. (Ozzy Osbourne with Primus)
3. Purple Haze (Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo & Geezer Butler)
4. Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Ozzy Osbourne with Type O Negative) 5. Shake Your Head (Let’s Go To Bed) (Ozzy Osbourne with Was Not Was)
6. Born To Be Wild (Ozzy Osbourne with Miss Piggy)
7. Nowhere To Run (Vapor Trail) (Ozzy Osbourne with Crystal Method, DMX, ‘Ol Dirty Bastard & Fuzzbuble)
8. Led Clones (Ozzy with Gary Moore)
9. For Heavens Sake (Ozzy Osbourne with Tony Iommi & Wu-Tang Clan)
10. I Ain’t No Nice Guy (Ozzy Osbourne With Motorhead)
11. Therapy (Ozzy Osbourne With Infectious Grooves)
12. Stayin’ Alive (Ozzy Osbourne With Dweezil Zappa)

CD 4
1. Good Times (Originally recorded by Eric Burdon)
2. 21st Century Schizoid Man (Originally recorded by King Crimson)
3. In My Life (Originally recorded by the Beatles)
4. Mississippi Queen (Originally recorded by Mountain)
5. For What It’s Worth (Originally recorded by the Buffalo Springfield)
6. Fire (Originally recorded by Arthur Brown)
7. Hi Ho Silver Lining (Originally recorded by the Jeff Beck Group)
8. All The Young Dudes (Originally recorded by Mott the Hoople)
9. Sympathy For The Devil (Originally recorded by the Rolling Stones)
10. Changes - Duet with Kelly Osbourne (Originally recorded by Black Sabbath)


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Wife and business manager of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne, a.k.a. the Prince of Bleeping Darkness, Sharon lived in backstage obscurity until her family's wildly popular MTV reality show, The Osbournes, catapulted her to household-name status. Her XXX today of XXX was?.

Sharon, Ozzy and two of their three teenage children, Jack, 18 and Kelly, 17, played out their chaotic yet happy daily lives for an audience of millions - one episode pulled in 7.8 million viewers, the most for any show in the history of the network. They also won an Emmy award for Best Reality TV Show.

Off-screen, just weeks after negotiating an astronomical $20 million dollar contract for a second season of The Osbournes, Sharon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The show went on, though, filming throughout her illness and treatment.

Though she struggled with addictions to food, drugs and alcohol, Sharon was known for her business savvy and nerves of steel. Starting in the late 1970s, she hauled Ozzy out of a debilitating drug addiction, took over his career and helped him sell more than 70 million solo albums. When Ozzy was rejected by Lollapalooza, she created the Ozzfest metal tour, which turned out to be the largest grossing group concert in history. Sharon also hatched the idea for The Osbournes and was the family's fiercest contract negotiator throughout.

Rock n' Roll Roots

With a father who was a concert producer and band manager and a mother who danced, Sharon grew up steeped in London's entertainment industry. Sharon's father, the hard-bitten Don Arden, managed bands such as Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath, Ozzy's original heavy metal band. Sharon dropped out of school at 15 to work for her him.

Ozzy and Sharon's romance began in 1979, when Sharon went to collect $500 that Ozzy owed her father. Having been kicked out of Black Sabbath for excessive substance abuse, Sharon found Ozzy at a Beverly Hills hotel, bottomed out from a six-month cocaine binge. "He was so vulnerable and sweet and honest," she told People. "He was a bit of an oddball. But he was really, really loving."

Furious with her for poaching a client - especially one who owed him money - Sharon's father attempted to have her killed and they did not speak for 20 years.

During those years, Sharon struggled with her weight and Ozzy's addictions. At the lowest point in his struggle, Ozzy attacked Sharon one night in a drug-induced haze and tried to strangle her. "Eminem talks about killing his wife, but my husband actually tried it," Sharon told British tabloids. The incident landed Ozzy in a six-month round of rehab, though even today, he continues to drink and take prescription drugs.

In 1999, when 225 pounds had settled on Sharon's 5'2" frame, she underwent a new surgical procedure to shrink her stomach. It helped her drop 95 pounds, restricting her to small amounts of food at a time. "In my life I've seen the way people react to fat people. Somebody once said that it's more accepted to be a drug addict than it is to the fat, and it's true," Sharon told Barbara Walters.

Doctors say this weight-loss procedure had nothing to do with her subsequent cancer.

At the height of The Osbournes popularity, Sharon was included in People's Most Beautiful People issue in 2002.

When she was diagnosed with cancer, her family was shattered. Filming the show during this difficult time was more straining than they had thought. "Ozzy's been hitting the bottle again and the cameras are here all the time?" Sharon told Barbara Walters on 20/20. "So we have no privacy? You know when you're sick and you want to be on your own? And I can't throw up on my own and Ozzy can't get drunk on his own."

Osbournes No Osmonds

The family's on-screen, "ordinary" lives made the Addams Family seem like the Osmonds ? they in fact parodied the wholesome duo for a Pepsi Superbowl ad this year. Their regular-yet-shocking family antics were punctuated by the constant bleep of the censor, with Sharon remaining the sane and stable mom throughout. When the family pooch had bowel problems, she called in the pet therapist; when things got ugly with the elevator-music-loving neighbors, she made nice with police.

The show also affected the lives of their teenage children. Kelly, 17 has put out an album, Shut up; Jack, 18 appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek; and even the "missing" daughter, Aimee, who moved out when MTV moved in ? has upped the ante on her modeling career. Sharon too, was set to host her own afternoon talk show. Alternately proud and bothered by her family's fame and lack of privacy, Sharon surprised MTV executives by telling Barbara Walters the show would end after the second season. She quickly recovered from the gaffe by publicly announcing, "I love my MTV."

"You're not as normal as I think you are when I'm talking to you," Walters once told Sharon, aptly capturing the essence of her allure. When Ozzy once bit off the head of a dove during a tense moment with record company executives, Sharon defended him, "He was meant to take it out of his pockets as a show of peace."

Sharon also occasionally surprised her foes with Tiffany boxes full of feces. She also told People about her meeting with Queen Elizabeth: "She was very warm and amazingly down-to-earth, and I just told her that she had great t*%&, 'cause she does."

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, Sharon and her dark prince renewed their wedding vows in a New Year's Eve ceremony. The official day of their anniversary is July 4th. Sharon once joked, "I wanted to pick a day Ozzy would remember."

Osbourne is survived by her husband Ozzy and three children, Kelly, Jack and Aimee.

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OZZY AND SHARON OSBOURNE & MTV OFFER ROCK BANDS OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME IN THE NEW SERIES, “BATTLE FOR OZZFEST,” PREMIERING ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 25TH AT 10:30PM (ET/PT)

Eight Bands Battle For A Tour Spot on Ozzfest 2005

Prepare for the ultimate battle of the bands! MTV Ozzy Osbourne and Emmy award-winning producer Sharon Osbourne announced today the premiere date for “Battle for OZZfest,” a new, weekly, unscripted series, chronicling the intense nationwide search for eight hard rock bands competing for the chance to perform on stage on OZZfest’s worldwide 10th Anniversary tour. In addition to the opportunity of a lifetime by sharing the stage with Ozzy himself as well as other rock superstars, the winning band will receive touring money, brand new band gear and a possible record deal. In the premiere episode, Sharon & Ozzy turn the competition upside-down as there’s one big twist that the bands don’t know about - and that’s just a taste of things to come. To find out, watch the premiere of “Battle for OZZfest” on MTV on Monday, October 25th at 10:30pm (ET/PT).

“Ozzfest has been the launch pad for so many new acts like System of a Down, Incubus, Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack and Chevelle - all who have gone on to multi-platinum success,” commented Sharon Osbourne. “Now we are taking eight bands and giving them the same opportunity. But life on the road isn’t always what its cracked up to be and our bands are going to find that out, the hard way.”

Each episode will feature these rock wanna-be’s being put through the everyday grueling tasks of an enormous tour as their rock and roll fantasies meet life on the road realities. With a varied crew of rock & roll characters, all born to raise bloody hell-- and all living on the same bus, fighting for the same dream in what’s known as a cutthroat business, anything can happen. Every episode delivers more trial, tribulations and eliminations by Ozzy and Sharon. The contestants are constantly faced with various tasks intended to test their strength, be it physical, mental, moral or musical, because in the end, only one band will be crowned champion and receive the Grand Prize package... if they’re hardcore enough to handle it.

Now almost a decade old, OZZfest is without peer in championing live hard rock and metal music. The 'Fest has maintained its success because founders Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne understand its core fans and give them exactly what they want and enough of it to last them through 'til next year. OZZfest devotees even decided the 2004 lineup, by voting for their favorite bands at www.OZZfest.com. The survey attracted more than 65,000 fans during the first week of voting alone. The earsplitting extravaganza has earned a hallowed position in the busiest tour season with a relentless commitment to its core fans and the consistency of quality they demand as their birthright.

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Ozzy Osbourne has vowed to stop swearing for charity.

The Prince of Darkness has had his mouth taped shut for the fundraising stunt, in which he hopes to “raise a fortune” by cutting out bad language for 24 hours.

Ozzy can be seen gagged with black tape on a TV commercial for UK charity Children In Need in the run up to the 25-year-old BBC fundraising show in November.

His wife, Sharon, also appears in the advert, saying: “Ozzy is going to raise a fortune by not using swear words for 24 hours.”

But the 55-year-old rips off his tape and shouts: “No swear f***ing words? You’ve got to be f***ing joking! I’m the Prince of Darkness - they expect me to f***ing swear.”

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We just had to help fund
ROCKERS Sir Elton John and Ozzy Osbourne last night helped send our Beslan appeal rocketing to an incredible £344,000.

Sir Elton and his partner David Furnish were so moved by the plight of the innocent children caught up in the Russian school siege that they wrote out a cheque for £10,000.

Elton said: “This is the most devastating and upsetting thing we have seen in all our lives. We are very pleased to help in any way we can.”

Ozzy and wife Sharon also chipped in with their own £10,000 donation.

Ozzy said: “No words can describe what we have seen. Our thoughts are with all their families and friends.”

And last night even MORE celebrities backed our appeal.


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Ozzfest 2004 ended abruptly when its last show on September 4th in West Palm Beach, FL was canceled due to the hurricane. "Some crazy chick named Frances forced us to end Ozzfest a bit early" said Ozzy. "To the people of West Palm Beach and the rest of the state of Florida, Sharon and I want you to know that our thoughts are with all of you and hope everyone made it through the storm okay. Rest assured that we’ll be back in West Palm in 2005 for Ozzfest’s huge 10th anniversary tour (hopefully before hurricane season starts). Many thanks to all of the bands on this year’s tour, especially the great Rob Halford and Judas Priest. Also a big thank you to Tony, Geezer and Bill for another amazing tour together."

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
The Fanzmosis fanclub presents
an awesome interview with Ozzy Osbourne
( Check it out . )

Rock Brigade Magazine- August 04
Highlight of this Edition:
"The legend lives! Ozzy Osbourne survived the alcohol, drugs, family problems and a nearly fatal accident, yet he stays on the road, detonating in Ozzfest with Black Sabbath.
In this August edition of Rock Brigade, we (Fanzmosis) covered the beginning of Ozzfest 2004 in NJ, USA, we raffled exclusive gifts, (CD, removable tattoos) of the madman AND Ozzy answered some questions from the fans of Fanzmosis where he speaks of his family and his new project "Rasputin"...
(Click to view the Magazine - 217 - August'04)

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