Biography
Ozzy Osborne - British rock musician, the creator of the BLACK SABBATH cult group, which is considered the foundation of musical styles such as hard rock and havi metal. Ozzy Osbourne is considered the "godfather" of Hevi-Metal and enters the Hall of Fame of British Rock Music, and many of his hits are recognized as a classic of heavy rock and still popular with the public.Childhood and youth
John Osborne was born in the English city of Birmingham in a large family. He was a fourth child, and all the parents brought up six children. John Thomas Osborne's father was a master of making tools in General Electric and worked at night, and Mother Lilian was occupied by the day.
The nickname of Ozzy the boy received even in elementary school. It was a decreasing form of the surname, successfully combined with the name of the magic country, the stories about which young John was fonded.
Heavy financial situation led him to the curve of the track, and John Osborne tried to take theft with hacking, was caught and served in prison for less than a year. Being in conclusion, he made the first tattoo, which will later become the famous - the letters of Ozzy on the phalanges of the fingertips of the left hand.
Music
Freed, Ozzy decides to make a dream and become a rock star. Osborne becomes a vocalist of the young group "Music Machine", with which only 2 concerts worked. Then the young man decided to create his own team, which is not immediately, but called the "Black Sabbath" - by analogy with the popular horror movie of that time. The "Paranoid" disk conquered the charts of Europe and America and brought the group world popularity.The first solo disc of the musician "Blizzard of Ozz" came out in 1980 and became popular. Began a new round of glory in the musical biography of Ozzy. A special place in the history of rock music is the song "Crazy Train", which is included in this album. The composition did not occupy high seats in the charts, but until today remains a business card of the singer.
In the spring of 1989, the rock ballad "Close My Eyes Forever", which Ozzy performs a duet with the American rock singer by cast Ford. The song falls back to the top ten of the year in the United States and appears in all world charts, still remaining one of the best ballads in Havi-Metal history.
Ozzy Osbourne became famous among fans of strange and "bloodthirsty" outcomes. During communication with the managers of a record company, which intended to record the first solo disk of the singer, the artist brought two snow-white pigeons. According to Osborne, Osborne intended to release them into the sky, but instead of a noble gesture bit his head of one of the birds.
Later at the solo concerts, the rock musician often threw into a crowd of pieces of meat or a desirable. Once Ozzy decided to do the same with a volatile mouse, pre-catching her head. The dramatic moment was captured in the photo. But the animal wounded the singer, after which Osborne was hospitalized. According to eyewitnesses, coming out of the clinic, Ozzy broke out with a dog laline.
Ozzy and in old age remains faithful to its addiction to spectacular spectacles. On the eve of a complete solar eclipse, which was observed in the US on August 21, 2017, in Illinois Ozzy Osbourne organized the Moonstock rock music festival. In the final of the event, which fell on an eclipse, Osborne fulfilled the composition "Bark at the moon".
Personal life
The first time Osborne married Riley Telma at 21. The spouses were born daughter Jessica Starshin and Son Louis John. Also, the performer adopted Elliot Kingsley, the son of his wife from the first marriage. Ozzy and Telma lived together for 12 years, but due to the problems of the singer with alcohol addiction in the youth, the family broke up.
Embed from getty imagesA year later Ozzy Osbourne was again married, this time with Sharon Arden, who became his manager and led all things. The spouses were born three children - Amy, Kelly and Jack. Also, the spouses took on the upbringing of Robert Marcato, whose deceased mother was a family friend.
In the spring of 2016, the well-established personal life of the singer was shaken. Sharon caught Ozzy in treason, after which it began to prepare for the broken-separation process. Soon it turned out that Ozzy Osbourne was sick with sex olism, which the singer made public recognition. The family council decided to send Osborne to a special clinic for treatment against addiction. Sharon postponed divorce. When the relationship was restored, the singer reported that he came up with a legend of mental disorder to justify before his wife, who found him with a young girl.
Ozzy Osborne now
In early 2019, due to the problems with the health of Ozvey, the tour was forced to cancel. In the fall of 2018, the artist damaged his fingers on his hand, he was made operation, and later he picked up a pulmonary infection. Doctors advised the star to refrain from long distances in the winter season.As a result, concerts in Europe had to be transferred for 2020. Another problem, which gave itself to know, - the displacement of metal vertebrae, installed in the spine of the artist in the early 2000s after the injury gained. Now the state of the artist stabilized, but while the star refrains from the appearance in public.
In the summer of 2019, the results of medical research were made public, in the course of which it turned out that Ozzy Osborne had a gene mutation. She allowed him to remain relatively healthy in the use of alcohol for long years. The artist participated in the experiment, who conducted scientists from Massachusetts.
Discography
- 1970 - "BLACK SABBATH"
- 1970 - "Paranoid"
- 1973 - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
- 1975 - "Sabotage"
- 1976 - "TECHNICAL ECSTASY"
- 1980 - "BLIZZARD OF OZZ"
- 1983 - "Bark At The Moon"
- 1988 - "NO REST FOR THE WICKED"
- 1991 - "No More Tears"
- 1995 - "OZZMOSIS"
- 2007 - "Black Rain"
- 2010 - "Scream"
- 2013 - "13"