Ozzy Osbourne, Prince of Darkness and Black Sabbath
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Along with “Blizzard of Ozz,” the album that bore this title track is Osbourne’s best seller. The single, meanwhile, is ushered in with a gripping bass line and an undercurrent of keyboards until Osbourne makes his grand vocal entrance, all sneers and snarls.
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,
“He lurched back and forth across the stage like an obsessed soldier during drills. He tossed his shaggy-haired head to the beat of the relentless drums. He quickly shed his shirt after only the first song, exposing his thickset torso and turquoise tattoos with a feverish sweep. And he screamed to the whistling audience, “Let’s get crazy!”
Ozzy Osbourne was an unruly chaos agent and a beloved family man alike.