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I think there's a wild man in everybody.
I'm a split personality.
Ozzy Osbourne and John Osbourne is two different people.
John Osbourne is talking to you now,
but if you wanna be Ozzy Osbourne,
you know, he's like, takes over.
When I was a kid, I was afraid of everything.
It was just like, you just crawl into your fear hole.
You know, you don't need to cry for the bully,
and so when you do find a bit of booze or dope or [bleep]
or whatever, you go [bleep], I found it.
I mean, I could never get there again.
Alcohol and dope and... and I've been a class clown anyway,
so it sums it all up, you know.
I use the talents of making people feel somewhat entertained
when I was goofing around.
To take it onstage with my music,
I suppose it's the same kind of a thing.
I don't know what music would be like
if it weren't for the influence of Ozzy.
Ozzy changed everything.
Well, I mean, you can't say anyone's immortal,
but I think that Ozzy in that time was, um...
I think Ozzy's music is timeless.
It makes me cry and gives me the chills.
It's just perfect.
Dad is a kid from the streets who... worked in factories.
He's very much this working class blue collar guy.
The working class thing is key
because you grew up with nothing,
and you do everything you can every day
so you don't go back to nothing.
It's all about escaping your reality to something better.
He left one of the biggest rock bands in the world
and became bigger, a credible artist on his own,
finding great new talent,
and then made it huge on TV.
Nobody had done that.
He is the most irresistible madman
you will ever meet in your life.
He is the real Iron Man.
The reason why I do what I do is because it's what
everybody wants to do, but they ain't got the guts to.
And all I am is honest.
- Roll. - Camera.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Ozzy Osbourne,
the [bleep] Prince of Darkness.
O-Okay?
All right. That's cool.
♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ He was turned to steel ♪
There ain't many people who have such a longevity as I have.
♪ Where he traveled time ♪
I feel honored that people still wanna see me, you know?
♪ Nobody helps him ♪
♪ Now he has his revenge ♪
When you feel that audience jumping,
it's like a better feeling than an orgasm.
The party's on, man.
Thank you. God bless you all, man.
My father always said I'd do something big one day.
He says to me, "You're either gonna do something very special
or you're gonna go to prison." He was right, you know?
I had a dream, and it came true.
I mean, I live a good life.
My name is John Michael Osbourne.
Not many people call me "John."
It's either "Oz" or "Ozzy."
I think if I walked down the street now
and somebody went, "John!" I wouldn't stop.
Although I am John.
I leave Ozzy onstage. I'll come off as John.
I was born in Birmingham, England, 1948.
The only thing that was around then was factories.
A lot of Birmingham was bombed during the second World War.
Actually, the place to play was called "the bomb site."
That was where you played, not realizing that it was
a place that had been bombed during World War II.
You know, imagination would run wild.
Oh, it's changed a lot.
It's changed an awful lot since I lived here.
- Wow. - The bedroom I had back then
was no bigger than two single beds side by side.
I lived in here for a while, and, uh, yeah.
There was no inside toilets.
It was a bucket to pee in at the end of the bed.
We had an outside toilet where you go to go for a dump.
You... You didn't have toilet paper.
You had newspaper.
You didn't have soap or water, which was a big stigma for me.
I had a lot of shame when I was a kid,
because I always felt dirty. I always felt unclean.
I felt like a peasant, you know?
There were six kids.
My three older sisters were Jean, Iris, and Gillian.
I also had two younger brothers, Paul and Tony.
My father was a toolmaker.
He never would miss a day from work.
Come rain, come shine,
if he was sick, and... and I wanna be like that.
I loved him.
When my dad came home after working all night in a factory,
my mother Lilian would start her shift.
I was petrified most of the time
because I was a very nervous guy.
Fear of impending doom ruled my life.
I convinced myself if I stepped on cracks,
something really bad would happen when I got home,
like my mother would be dead or something like that.
When my dad was sleeping
through the day,
I would be freaking out thinking he was dead.
I'd have to poke him to make sure
he was still breathing. I can tell you,
he wasn't too pleased about that.
Where did you guys spend most of your time?
In the street 'cause it was too crowded in the house.
He didn't have a very happy school life.
He was always penalized for... probably because he was so slow.
I hated school.
I spent more time smoking cigarettes
in the boys' room than being in class.
I wasn't good at school.
Well, we didn't realize he was dyslexic.
We just thought perhaps he was, like, slow to learn.
There was a lot of shame for me,
because if you had that learning disability,
they would put you in a corner with a cone on your head,
and they'd call you the class dunce,
and the whole class laughed at you,
which made me go further into me.
I [bleep] hated it.
Ozzy!
- What's going on, Ozzy?! - Hi!
All right. I was the class clown.
I would go to the biggest guy in the class, make him laugh,
and he would be my mate so no one would hassle me
because I've got this big guy with me.
Most comedians I know, offstage,
they're very unhappy people,
and that's kind of true to my life.
I'm making you laugh to make me feel safe around you.
At 16, I was on the streets.
When John left school, he sort of went
from one little job to another.
I didn't want to work in a day job.
I couldn't stand getting up for a job in the morning.
I could never hold a 9-to-5 job down, ever.
I'd go from a plumber to a builder.
One of my jobs was working in a slaughterhouse.
I remember gagging all day.
But eventually, you get used to the smell.
I said to this guy, "How long have you been doing this?"
He goes, "35 years. I'm retiring,
and they're gonna give me a gold watch."
I remember turning to him. I said...
I had to at least try and have a little bit of fun
with my life while I was young.
John used to go out
and have a drink, get in fights, and that was it.
From what I saw of John,
he was always in and out of trouble.
You know, Dad was always telling him off.
That's the shop that I broke into.
That was Mrs. Clark's shop I broke into.
Yeah, I broke into a shop at the back of my house.
A lot of the kids turned to crime,
and I did for a time,
but I wasn't really good at it, you know.
I wasn't a career criminal.
I kinda wanted to get caught in a way
to be accepted by the rest of the bad guys in the area.
I didn't wanna go to jail, but that's where I ended up.
When you're in a place full of bad people,
it's a bit of an education.
One month in jail was long enough.
I had no idea what my life was about to explode into.
I had no idea.
I gotta go for a piss.
Let me tell you something. After six weeks in prison
I knew I didn't wanna go back,
and I just didn't wanna work in a factory.
The only thing I had a passion for was music.
Music was a very integral part of the family.
There was always music with the record player,
or the radio, the piano.
By the time I was about 14,
I had discovered music from the Beatles.
♪ Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now ♪
♪ Shake it up, baby ♪
♪ Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now ♪
♪ Shake it up, baby ♪
The Fab Four, when the Beatles happened,
it changed my life.
It gave me the seed to wanna do it myself.
My dad was a good guy. I loved him.
I talked my father into getting me a check for 250 pounds.
I went to George Clay's music shop in Birmingham.
He got me a Shure mic, a stand,
and a 50-watt Vox P.A.
I thought it was the best gift ever.
If my father hadn't bought me that mic and P.A.,
I would definitely not be here now.
First time I ever met Ozzy was at school.
He was in a year younger than me.
We all lived around the same sort of area.
That first time I met Oz was with Geezer and Tony as well.
We needed a singer for the band, so, uh,
we went to this music shop in Birmingham
where all the musicians used to hang out,
and we saw this ad for "Ozzy Zig requires gig."
And, uh, the magic words... "has his own P.A."
I said to Bill, "I know an Ozzy, but it can't be him,
because as far as I knew, he never sang."
Well, it wasn't that I was the greatest singer on the earth,
but if you had an ad which said, "I own my own P.A.,"
you got people at your door.
Myself and Tony and Geezer, we went to his house.
I took to him straightaway. It was his personality
and also his knowledge of blues music.
I mean, he could really sing really good blues.
So we all decided, "Oh, why don't we just
form a band together and have a go, you know?"
Then we did our first rehearsals not soon after.
Nobody got any sleep. I mean, it was just...
they were crazy days. They just like, you know,
a bunch of guys together that are just having a lot of, uh,
a lot of fun.
Back then, we were pretty scruffy,
and Oz was probably
the most outrageously scruffy of everybody.
His pants were falling off him, couldn't afford a pair of shoes.
It was fun. It beat [bleep] going to a [bleep]
some industrial pollution [bleep] miserable job.
At first, we just did blues stuff, like 12-bar blues.
We just used to get together, jam for about two hours.
Usually, magically, this riff would appear,
and we'd just, like, all latch onto it
and just keep jamming until we'd finished the song.
♪ Yeah, you get blood ♪
We used to rehearse in a community center,
and we used to have to get there for 9:00 in the morning,
and it was across the road from a movie theater.
Until I remember it was Tony who said one morning...
he said, "Isn't it peculiar that people pay money
to go and see horror films?"
"Why don't we start writing scary music?"
Somebody gave Ozzy this old 16th century book
of black magic, and he brought it round to my flat
'cause he knew I was interested in magic
and all that kind of thing,
and I just got this really weird vibe off it.
And that night, I just, like, woke up suddenly,
and I just saw this black shape at the bottom of me bed.
About three days after that, we came up with our first song,
"Black Sabbath."
♪ What is this that stands before me? ♪
The song, the "Black Sabbath" with the bells coming in,
and the... ♪ Boom, ba, boom ♪
That was just, like, the basis of my introduction to rock.
Black Sabbath seems to be the first heavy metal music,
all the Metallicas and Slayers and Soundgarden...
it all leads back to Black Sabbath.
"Black Sabbath," the song, we would play that song,
and people would run out screaming.
People were [bleep] freaked out.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
You know, it took off so quickly.
It was just [bleep] great, though.
We'd get in the van, get on the ferry,
get pissed on the ferry.
We did a lot of gigs up north,
and we all slept in the same caravan.
And we all relied on each other
if we ever needed anything.
We had an absolute blast when we made our first record,
"Black Sabbath."
Most of the record sales have come from northwest England.
"Mum, we're on the radio!"
I couldn't believe we were on the...
my voice was coming out through the radio,
and the whole of England was listening to me sing.
I couldn't believe it.
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Some people say my love cannot be true ♪
And the first thing I did when I got any money
was I went out. I got myself drunk,
bought some shoes and socks.
I bought a bottle of Brut to smell better.
When we released "Paranoid,"
that went straight to number one.
In the amount of three years, we'd gone from being
a nothing band to the number one band in England.
It was happening so quick.
♪ All day long, I think of things ♪
♪ But nothing seems to satisfy ♪
♪ Think I'll lose my mind ♪
♪ If I don't find something to pacify ♪
The beauty of Ozzy's range is that he can sing in a place
where the guitars can be this giant, grand, monstrous thing,
and he can dance on top.
♪ And so as you hear these words ♪
♪ Telling you now of my state ♪
♪ I tell you to enjoy life ♪
♪ I wish I could, but it's too late ♪
They're all like brothers to me. It's all a family, you know.
I think it was about as close
as four heterosexual men can get.
I've got three brothers at home, and it's beyond that, even.
We like the name "Black Sabbath," so obviously...
We just like the name, you know?
That's all it is. It's just a name, Black Sabbath.
Well, what do you do to relax?
Uh...
You were joking when you said that, of course.
Yeah, right.
Shortly after we all became successful with Black Sabbath,
I met Thelma in a nightclub.
Then we got married, and we had two children...
Jessica and Louis.
By the summer of 1972,
we were in Los Angeles to record a new album
in honor of our newfound love of cocaine.
You look on the back of the album sleeve,
we said, "We'd like to thank the great COKE-Cola company
of Los Angeles," meaning... Cocaine.
We did the album, "Vol. 4," and we'd been in Los Angeles
recording that for about three months,
and it was the first time that we'd all got
really heavily into cocaine.
I mean, we were doing it every day,
like 24 hours a day, practically.
We'd stay up for two or three days sometimes.
In the early days, it was absolute bedlam,
and I loved it.
Going around with him was a total adventure.
We never knew what was gonna happen.
Come on! Let's have a party!
I was on the television. I was on the radio.
And people recognized me, and people wanted my autograph,
and chicks wanted to [bleep] me.
It's like, wow, you know? It's like from being
a grubby little [bleep] to this.
This is the big time now.
♪ Revolution in their minds ♪
♪ The children start to march ♪
♪ Against the world... ♪
I thought money would buy everything and fix everything.
Bought a Mercedes. This is cool, man.
But you know, money would buy the alcohol and the drugs,
and I'd behave [bleep] badly.
I mean, the way I treated Thelma, it was wrong.
I treated her really badly, and the kids.
Two children.
I was just a very selfish, self-centered [bleep]
egotistical guy. I'd [bleep] around from day one,
and that ain't cool.
And now I've just had enough.
I'm no good at handling loss of love.
The Black Sabbath band... it was just a mess.
They've got the houses. They've got the cars.
But the thing was, they were all in the manager's name.
The manager ripped us off lots of money.
They were so young at the time and naive
and didn't understand anything about the industry,
how all the sharks are out to bite you.
It's very sad, 'cause these [bleep] destroyed us.
At some point, we fired our manager.
And once finally got tired of that management,
we basically made all the decisions ourselves,
which is what led the end of the band.
They went bankrupt, and this, of course,
caused turmoil within the band.
My dad was a legendary manager in the industry.
In '79, when Sabbath signed with my dad,
they were mates of mine, Black Sabbath.
I was touring with Electric Light Orchestra
and other bands.
We'd see 'em at an airport or, you know,
we'd be staying in the same hotel,
so they were many times that I'd seen Ozzy.
My father was very, very ill. He was in hospital.
I had come to see him the day before,
and he was perked up a little bit.
I picked up the phone when I got to his place.
He's gone. I collapsed. I was like, [bleep],
my dad's gone. It was really heavy.
When his dad passed away, Oz was in absolute turmoil,
and he put himself right... right inside the bottle, you know?
And he stayed there for a while.
When my father died, I couldn't stand it.
I can't deal with loss.
I can't deal with losing anything, what I love.
The most painful period of my life.
I was [bleep] devastated.
After his father passed away, we tried to make another record.
We actually came to Beverly Hills
to do some writing,
and Ozzy didn't turn up for two weeks.
You know, I was so fed up with it all.
The truth of the matter was, I wasn't into Sabbath anymore.
And we all, like, had this house rented in Bel Air,
and it's costing a lot of money,
which, you know, money that we didn't have at the time.
And all he was interested in
was getting smashed out of his head.
We were all [bleep] up anyway.
Tony was staying... he was either doing
Quaaludes and blow all day,
and they were saying that I was out of my head all the time.
so it was kinda like the pot calling the kettle black
in the respect that we were all stoned, you know?
The conversations began about the possibility
of looking at another singer.
The decision was, if we don't, we're gonna break up.
We got a situation that's supposed to be a band,
but yet when it came to the firing of me,
they got Bill, who was my best friend,
to come and do the dirty deed.
It was [bleep] horrible. Yeah, I hated it.
You know, we'd all lived in unison.
We'd all been the four musketeers.
You know, so now what?
I was done. They were done with me. I was done with them.
It was just like a divorce.
I didn't know how to... what I was gonna do.
After I got kicked out of Sabbath,
I stayed under a contract with Don and Sharon,
and they put me up at a hotel in West Hollywood.
Well, I mean, I thought this is it, I'm [bleep],
so I better have my last fling.
I just was ordering [bleep] booze from Gil Turner's,
coke from my coke dealer,
get a chick to come around for a bit of the old in-out, in-out.
We would give him a per diem every week.
He'd have spent the per diem by Wednesday
'cause it had gone on coke, and, you know, the usual.
Pizza boxes in the sink
and empty bottles of vodka and gin,
and I just looked at him and I said, "For [bleep] sake,
"this has just got to end, 'cause we'll drop you.
We'll drop you tomorrow."
My wife wants a divorce,
my father dies, and my band kicked me out.
That was one of the lowest points of my life,
but my life was about to change.
I went to go pick Ozzy up from the house
after he'd got fired from Black Sabbath
and brought him back to the office and, you know,
said to him, "Just don't worry. We're here for you."
I think he honestly thought that we were [bleep]
and he'd be sent home.
It was a very sad feeling. I remember leaving there.
I locked myself in a hotel room for three months
just getting smashed out of my brains every day, you know.
I hadn't seen him for about a week,
and I went to see him.
He just drank and you know, ordered pizzas all day
and watched TV and never left the room,
feeling sorry for himself
because he didn't believe in himself.
And he was so down when I said,
"What the [bleep] are you doing?"
"Open the window. Get in the [bleep] shower.
Shave that [bleep] off."
And she said, "If you clean yourself up,
I'll wanna manage you," and I said,
"You wanna manage me? You're crazy."
I thought my career was in the [bleep]pan, you know?
Just because he'd got fired from Black Sabbath,
the kids didn't care. They loved him.
But as far as the industry goes, he'd got fired
from one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
He was an addict, so they wrote him off.
I wanted to be more mainstream
without selling out to the pop world.
I wanted to be more accessible.
It was a bit of a slow process at first,
until I met someone who put me in touch with Randy Rhoads,
and it kind of all started to click together, you know.
When I first met Randy Rhoads,
and I was [bleep] out of my face.
But then I heard him play. I just went...
Oh, [bleep] me. And that was it.
As soon as he found Randy, it was like night and day.
He was alive again.
Randy, a breath of fresh air, funny, ambitious.
Just a great guy.
I knew instinctively that he was something extra special.
He was like... a gift from God.
We worked so well together.
Randy and I were like a team, you know.
One thing that he gave to me was hope.
He gave me a reason for carrying on.
He had patience with me, which is great,
and he was very good to work with, you know.
He pulled the best out of you, you know.
We had a lot of fun, lot of fun.
We were lucky that my father financed Ozzy's solo career.
He financed the album.
It was done on a 24-track machine
in a bar in England.
It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of drinking,
a lot of partying, and then an album came out of it.
I was expecting an awful lot from Ozzy,
but I wasn't expecting what I heard.
He really can do it.
We had this brilliant album that was done in six weeks.
"Blizzard of Oz," 'cause we were all doing cocaine.
To sell this album, we eventually got a deal
at Epic for $65,000,
and we took it 'cause it was the only one that would take it.
It came out in the UK first, and it was just instant hit.
I knew that "Crazy Train" was gonna be a big song.
I-I just knew.
♪ I'm going off the rails ♪
♪ On a crazy train ♪
♪ I'm going off the rails on a crazy train ♪
Ozzy and Randy together were just phenomenal.
We were just constantly on the road,
and it was just fun, drinking, partying, destroying rooms.
I mean, it was just so much fun.
And Randy was so funny and naughty,
and it was just like every day was a new adventure.
Did you have an idea that he had a crush on you?
No.
We were really kind of thrown together,
but it wasn't until August of 1980
that we actually had a relationship going.
It was the last night of rehearsals,
and we had two days before the tour was starting,
and I thought, oh, it's gonna be the usual thing
that had happened, in my past anyway, that, you know,
you go with a bloke, you [bleep] him one night,
and the next day doesn't know you.
- So you know, like it was before. - [bleep]...chance over you.
Oh, [bleep] off.
No, it wasn't the perfect case scenario at all.
Aside from recording and performing,
- what do you like doing best? - Sex.
Yeah, you know, he could have seen a guy
in a [bleep] frock, he would have probably [bleep] it.
That's just the way Ozzy was when he's drunk and loaded.
I mean, some ugly, ugly people.
"Well, I wanted to know what it was like,"
and you're like, "Oh, for [bleep] sake."
I wasn't a great [bleep] cheater anyways.
Oh, you were a [bleep] great cheater.
You [bleep] all her friends, all the [bleep] staff.
Then you came to me and [bleep]
every groupie that there was in the world.
Oh, well, that was part of the job.
Time for a piss? Yeah, time for a piss?
That was an occupational hazard.
When your [bleep] falls off, don't complain to me.
It's like...
On the "Blizzard" tour,
we were together 24 hours a day every day.
I was still married to my ex-wife,
but I was... I fell in love with Sharon.
We were just having the time of our lives,
and meanwhile, Ozzy had a wife and kids back at home.
So it was, you know, a lot.
You could see that there was a chemistry.
It kinda unfolded rapidly.
But it wasn't something that it was... it was flaunted
in front of everybody.
It's hard enough working with someone,
let alone being a partner with that person.
Life's hard enough as it is
without making it harder
for everyone.
I am Ozzy Osbourne. I've been
a very extrovert person best part of my life.
I suppose it's my way of saying to people,
"Hey, I'm here."
That's what a lot of people have picked up on me,
the fact that I'm extroverted.
I'm not your normal kind of rock 'n' roller, you know.
So there was this boardroom meeting set up
for the head of every department to meet Ozzy and I.
What are we gonna do that they're never gonna forget?
So we thought, all right, well, let's go in,
and we'll get them doves of peace.
Everybody loves doves.
The dove was a total freak of nature, if you like.
I was absolutely drunk, and I was being introduced
to the L.A. branch of CBS.
The original idea was that I had brought these two doves
to throw up into the air when I walked in
to make this sort of, like, joke, like, "I'm here."
We'd been, you know, having a very happy morning.
And everybody sees the dove,
and they're like, "Oh, oh, oh." Ahh!
Throw the carcass on the table.
It was not a publicity stunt.
I was just out of my [bleep] face
on drugs and alcohol, you know.
And everybody was like...
It just shocked the [bleep] out of everybody.
They called the security.
The security got us, ushered us out.
The head of legal was on the phone for me,
and he said, "If you ever do that again,
we will absolutely destroy you."
And we're like, "[bleep] you." Pfft.
As he's saying that, his album is going out to radio,
and they're getting all these calls in
from station managers saying, "This record's unbelievable.
We're playing it 20 times a day."
And then it just spread like wildfire.
The album went right into the charts.
The reviews were unbelievable.
Who doesn't love "Crazy Train"? It's just a classic.
Everyone in America had an Ozzy album
and knew of Ozzy, and it was just a miracle.
It was new ground for him, making that transition
from being a part of a group, Black Sabbath,
to actually being the front man.
Of course, you know, he always considered Randy his partner.
We'd finished the "Blizzard" album,
the first album,
and he'd just done a small tour of the UK.
There was a break before he was
going to tour the rest of the world.
I said, "Do you think you guys can do this record in a month?"
They did it like that, and it was brilliant.
♪ Diary of a madman ♪
I remember thinking, wow, this is gonna be colossal.
It was just wonderfully wild timing.
It was like one thing after another was a success, success.
We had a lot of fun making them albums.
"Blizzard" was still in the charts
when we put out "Diary."
I think "Blizzard" and "Diary of a Madman"
were two of the finest albums that ever was made, you know.
Ozzy solo was very different musically.
The guitar styles were different,
and the... the clothes were different.
Everything about it was different.
It was more... in tune with the times that it was made.
It's a great feeling to have success with albums.
It's what you all make a record for,
and it's just a magic time.
♪ Over the mountain ♪
♪ Take me across the sky ♪
So we went into arenas. They were selling out.
We had this huge stage set designed
that was like a castle.
"Diary of a Madman"... it was the best stage
that I've ever worked with. It's so cool.
It was like this gothic archway thing.
Something crazy happened every night on that tour.
The craziest thing happened in Des Moines, Iowa.
The bat was a kind of an accident,
which I did milk somewhat.
I always liked old movies where they used to have
them custard pie fights.
So it gave me this idea to throw, instead of pies,
bits of meat and animal parts into the audience.
I thought it was hilarious.
We had this big hand come out at the end of the show
that Ozzy was on, and then there was a catapult in the back
full of raw meat that Ozzy would throw at the audience.
And the catapult went, and everybody's covered
in intestines and livers, and then people would come
with, like, parts of animals,
and they would throw raw chicken.
Sheep's testicles and live snakes,
dead rats, all kinds of things.
Somebody threw this frog onstage...
the biggest frog I've ever seen in my life,
and it landed on his back.
I was going hysterical. I thought it was a baby.
And somebody threw a bat.
I just thought it was a rubber bat,
and I just picked it up. I put it in my mouth
and crunched down. I just [bleep] bit into it, you know,
being the [bleep] clown that I am.
Oh, no, it's real! You know, it's a real, live bat.
The bat.
Bats are the biggest carriers of rabies in the world,
and I had to go to the hospital afterwards,
and they came and started giving me rabies shots.
And I had one in each rear.
And I had to have that every night.
And it was on the news that Ozzy bit the head off a bat,
and then it just spread like wildfire.
There were stories that he will only go on
if he killed so many kittens before he goes onstage.
It got to the point where people expected me
to do crazier and crazier things.
People elaborate, and Ozzy Osbourne
has been created through them, not through me.
All I did was get up there and make a mistake
of biting a head off a bat, and I tell you what, guys.
It ain't fun when you get them rabies shots.
If I was sober, I would never have urinated at the Alamo.
Ozzy was on a bender.
He'd wait for me to sleep and then slip out.
I decided to hide all his clothes.
She'd go out and take my clothes
do I didn't have any clothes to wear.
In the middle of the night,
Ozzy was looking for his clothes
to go down and join his mates, and, um, there weren't any.
And so I thought, I know.
So I put one of her dresses on. I went out.
And he put on one of my dresses
and goes down into the bar.
The next day, they had to do photos.
He kept my dress on, and they took him to where
the Alamo was.
So he just lifted his dress and took a piss.
This cop turns up. "There he is!"
And he got arrested.
And of course, after that, he was banned from San Antonio.
From what I did with a bat, the dove, the Alamo,
and all the other [bleep], I suppose it's...
it was in the spirit of rock 'n' roll. I don't know.
I didn't mean any harm to any of it,
apart from the bat, the dove, the...
It all happened so quickly. It was like a movie.
You know, when you see bands in movies,
and they're all in the van together
and having a great time? That's the way it was.
Why the [bleep] did I wear
them tassel t-shirts all the time?
What was wrong with me?
I've never seen this before, ever.
I thought I'd seen it all. I don't know.
This is unbelievable.
I wasn't so much looking at me as looking at Randy.
Just the feel of seeing him onstage, playing,
I-I kinda was there for a little bit, you know.
Thank you!
I remember we did a gig in Knoxville, Tennessee,
and we were driving from Knoxville, Tennessee,
to Orlando, Florida, to do a gig with Foreigner.
And we must have got there about noon,
and Ozzy and I stayed on the bus.
Ozzy and I were sleeping in the back of the bus,
and we got woken up by this huge, huge blast.
Boom!
In the background,
there's like a big stately home blazing.
I can't understand what's going on.
It was like being in a nightmare, you know.
Rudy, our bass player, was, like, screaming,
"Get off the bus! Get off the bus!"
We go and get out of the bus, and we had no idea
still what was going on.
I see the tour manager down on his knees, crying,
"Randy, Rachel." I'm like... They go like that.
And then there's part of the airplane sticking up
through the house.
They realized that they had been on a plane,
and the plane had crashed.
1 or 2 inches lower, it would have crashed into the bus,
and we would have blown up right there.
I don't know what the hell happened that killed them,
but everybody died on the plane.
Randy Rhoads, the 25-year-old lead guitarist
for Ozzy Osbourne's group was killed in a plane crash
this morning along with two other people...
the pilot of the plane,
also Rachel Youngblood, the group's hairdresser.
Ozzy Osbourne himself was in the tour bus
when one of the plane's wings clipped it,
but Ozzy escaped injury, we understand.
25-year-old Randy Rhoads is dead today.
Randy was a gift from God for Ozzy.
I mean, he was everything to Ozzy.
I lost a dear friend in my life,
and I miss him terribly.
After the crash, I would say that it was a bigger job
for Sharon to keep Ozzy
not only from drinking or doing drugs,
but to doing damage to himself.
Ozzy still to this day feels guilty.
"Yeah, if only I was awake,
I would never have let him get on that plane,"
and, you know, it's something that Ozzy lives with.
Every single show was a wake for our friend.
♪ I said, hey, goodbye to romance, yeah ♪
♪ Goodbye to friends ♪
They'd forget that, you know. It just gets kinda weird.
♪ To all the past ♪
♪ I guess that we'll meet ♪
♪ We'll meet in the end ♪
I finally got divorced from my wife,
and I wanted to marry Sharon.
I loved her, and I didn't want to live without her.
I wanted to start a new family.
Ozzy wanted to get married.
It was just never a big thing for me, marriage.
Getting a successful album, tour, you know,
those were the things that were important.
It was never like, oh, you know, planning a wedding, unh-unh.
Do you remember the first time you proposed to me?
- No. - You do, too.
I know I proposed, but I don't know where or when.
- Do you remember the second? - No.
- Any of them? - No.
- Oh, [bleep] you. - I don't.
I remember when I married you, I-I think.
The first time he proposed to me,
we were at my parents' house.
He asked my father if he could marry me. So sweet.
It was all very lovely, and, um, nice,
and we were all excited,
and then the first argument, he goes out the bloody window
into the garden and lost the ring.
Shaz, would you just bend over on your knees, please,
darling, just for one sec?
Oh, with that? Are you crazy?
I wouldn't go near him with that.
It'll end up in my back.
His manager, Sharon Arden.
She's the woman I've loved in my life.
She's my soulmate.
He is the most romantic man I've ever met in my life.
Sharon is making plans to wed Ozzy.
It will be his second attempt.
I think actually he's marrying me
so he doesn't have to give me 20% anymore.
I was still that drunk.
I mean, when we first got together,
we both would meet drink for drink.
And then one morning, she says, "You know what?
I can't do this anymore."
She never drank again.
I said to Ozzy, "One of us has gotta be sober,
'cause we're never gonna survive this."
I thought... I just go, "What's wrong with her?"
It wasn't her. It's what was wrong with me.
Ozzy's got a great heart, but unfortunately,
his addiction is bigger than his heart.
I don't know what I'd do without her, you know.
Ozzy wanted babies.
Five months after we were married,
I was pregnant.
We were over the moon when we found out.
We were like, "Yeah!" So it was very exciting.
Aimee was born, and it was like, "Here you go.
Tour time again."
Aimee, Ozzy, and I on the road,
and we toured like that forever.
The one tour that I will never forget
was the Motley Crue tour.
Ow!
We used to have the wildest times, man.
The "Bark at the Moon" tour with Motley was over the top.
That tour with Motley Crue,
we used to do the craziest [bleep].
Is it true that I snorted a line of ants?
It's incredibly possible,
but do I remember it? No.
I remember one time in Memphis, Tennessee,
we went to Benihana's. I had a sake.
And I was drinking it out of a soup bowl.
The next thing I know, I wake up in pitch blackness,
and I'm like, where the [bleep] am I?
These pair of lights come toward me, and I go,
"What the [bleep] is that?" And it goes...
...right past me.
I'm feeling like I wanna take a piss,
and I'm feeling in the dark. I [bleep] had to piss.
And suddenly it blew like a whoo!
Cop goes, "When you finish shaking that thing, mister,
your ass is in jail." So I was thrown in jail
at 6:00 in the morning. That's how I got in the jail.
I made it a rule, never go to a police station,
never pick him up. "You're a big boy."
I don't know how any of us survived,
but then it started to twist on me,
and I started to take the persona of Ozzy offstage,
and I had to drink more and more and more
to get what I wanted, and I didn't wanna be...
really be... and it just twisted on you, you know?
Is it always like this, or is this an exception?
Yeah. Yeah, it is. Come on! Come on!
Yeah.
I never drank socially. I never took coke socially.
I never smoked dope socially.
I never did anything socially.
I did it to get [bleep] up, you know?
[bleep] off with the camera.
Sobriety [bleep] sucks.
You think, "I know I can make him stop.
"If I threaten to leave him, he'll stop.
"If he knows what a [bleep] father he is,
"he will definitely learn a lesson,
and he'll stop."
No. They'll stop when they want to stop, you know?
You can't make anybody stop, and if anything, you know,
his success and his... money just made it all worse.
I wasn't drinking for pleasure.
I was self-medicating.
We call it "Dutch courage" in England.
Ozzy was in a bad way physically,
you know, drunk every day.
I just couldn't take it,
so he'd promised that he would wait until Kelly was born,
and then he would go into treatment.
Sharon came up to me. She said, "I found this place
where teach you to drink like a gentleman, properly."
I'm going, "That's it. Why didn't I think of that?
I've been doing it all [bleep] wrong."
I was there for Kelly's birth.
I remember Kelly being born as if it was yesterday.
I was born October 27, 1984.
And on October 28, 1984, my dad flew
to the Betty Ford Clinic for the first time.
So when I get there, I go, "Where's the bar?"
She goes, "What?"
"Where's the bar for me to start drinking?"
"You're in the right place, but we ain't got a bar."
And then it was like six weeks without a drink.
But as I was leaving there, this one woman said to me,
"I've listened to all these other counselors
"tell you how wonderful they think you are.
I'm telling you, you're gonna [bleep] drink again."
She said, "And every time you pick that glass up,
you're gonna see my face."
How long did Ozzy stay sober after Betty Ford?
About... 45 minutes.
And every [bleep] time I picked that drink up,
it wasn't the same anymore,
and I'd see that woman's face for the longest time.
Hi. My name's Jack Osbourne.
My name is Kelly Lee Osbourne.
I'm Aimee Osbourne, and I'm the oldest of the children.
My dad is Ozzy. He's a famous pop star.
I love you, Daddy.
♪ It was the ultimate sin ♪
I think that was 1986.
♪ It was the ultimate sin ♪
I was over the top. I mean, everything was over the top.
People thought it was camp.
What the [bleep] was I smoking?
♪ ...ultimate sin ♪
We'd been told we were having a girl again,
and then when Jack was born and the doctor said,
"It's a boy"...
When I popped out, Daddy saw my willy,
and he fainted.
Ozzy fainted 'cause he was drunk.
They're my kids and I love them all, you know.
I love them all in different ways, but, I mean,
because they're all different personalities, you know.
Being aware of his addiction problems
was something that was... always been on the radar.
My mum protected us and shielded us
from so much until she couldn't.
It didn't affect me and my brother
the way that it affected my sister.
The degrees from time to time would change
of how, you know, if he would be good or bad
or in the middle somewhere, but it was always there.
I didn't want all of the chaos.
I just wanted, you know, like, quiet, normal, you know,
kind of upbringing.
For some reason, birthdays were always a source of kind of,
"I hope Dad doesn't act up again."
Like, one of my first memories is,
it was my third birthday that my mom videotaped him
doing what he thought he was being the fun dad.
He locked us all in a Wendy house,
which is like a kids' playhouse and went and got his mask...
The prosthetic mask
from the "Bark at the Moon" music video,
which is terrifying. It's like a huge wolf mask,
and it had these huge, fake, sharp fang teeth,
and these gloves with fangs,
and he was like, "I'll huff, and I'll puff,
and I'll blow this house down," and every single kid cried
and had to get picked up and go home,
and me, Jack, and Aimee thought it was the most hilarious thing
that we've ever seen.
It's like a total Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome.
I'm not... Nobody under the influence of any alcohol
or drug is the same person.
Ozzy sober is, you know, the best company in the world.
Funny, entertaining, kind, sweet,
give you the shirt off his back.
Ozzy using alcohol or drugs... [bleep]. A complete [bleep].
That's it. It's like night and day. That's it.
He was [bleep] up. He was like,
the week before, he was... he's been on a roll.
Ozzy was on a bender.
We were always [bleep] fighting, me and Sharon.
And we'd had a couple of fights,
and it was just building to something.
You could just feel it. So I just knew it was coming.
And Ozzy is very rarely calm. See, before he did it,
so calm and like...
So God only knows what combination he was on
or whatever it was, whether he was sniffing glue
or dog's arses or whatever it was,
but it frightened the [bleep] out of me.
I felt the calmest I'd ever felt in my life.
It was like serenity. It was like I was looking...
It was just... Everything was just peaceful.
And I put the kids to bed, bathe them.
We had a nanny living at the house then.
And I was just sat down, reading,
and he... he's, um, he came into the room.
I had no idea who was sat across from me on the sofa,
but it wasn't my husband.
He goes to a stage where he gets this look in his eyes
where you can't, um...
there's shutters, you know?
Shutters were down on his eyes,
and I just couldn't get through to him,
and he'd just said, "We've come to a decision
that you've got to die."
♪ The flames get higher and higher ♪
And, you know, he was calm, very, very calm,
and then just suddenly, he lunged across at me.
And just dived on me and started to choke me.
He got me down on the ground on top of me,
and I was feeling for stuff on the table,
and I felt the panic button, and I just pressed it.
And, um...
next thing I know... the cops were there.
Does it make you feel uncomfortable
- when you talk about it? - Sorry?
Does it make you feel uncomfortable
- when you talk about it? - Well, it's not exactly
one of my greatest [bleep] achievements.
All I could think of was the kids
and "You're not gonna do it.
"You're just not gonna take me out.
There's no way I'm leaving my kids."
So it was, um...
probably the most frightened that I've ever been.
"Why am I here?" He says,
"What, you want me to read your charge?"
So he read... "John Michael has been arrested
for attempted murder of Sharon Osbourne."
And I'm like, "Is this a joke?" He says, "I'm not joking."
He says, "You're going to court in a bit."
That hit me like...
It was like a [bleep] hammer between the eyes.
And I was very, very surprised when she dropped the charges.
So you thought about getting a divorce?
Oh, God, yeah. Yeah.
I was, you know, looking at all my options
I had left in my life, and my option, you know,
divorce, all of them, I was looking at everything. Okay.
What is going to be the best for my kids?
What is gonna be the best for me?
And thank God the judge put him in treatment
for six months, so I had time on my hands
to really think about what I should do
and "I don't want your money. I don't want your [bleep],
"but if you do this to me again,
"either I'm gonna kill you, or you're gonna kill me,
and do you want that for the kids?"
I could have killed Sharon,
and that's a desolate feeling.
She's my soulmate. I love her.
For some reason, any time something crazy happened,
it was always followed by, like, a trip to Hawaii
or, um, a vacation somewhere,
and I think to be honest with you,
things like that is why I hate going on holiday.
I don't like going to places where there's a beach
and there is sun, because it reminds me
of being a kid, and that was what we did
after Dad did something bad.
Yes, they love each other. They're business partners.
They have kids. They've both kind of created this,
you know, brand and empire together.
It's... maybe worth the fight every now and then.
I was really... lonely without Ozzy.
I really, really missed him.
I missed his stupid, bloody jokes
and even his untidiness. I really, really missed him.
I hated being without him.
But Ozzy was very, very frightened when he came out,
and so he... when he was in the house,
he definitely watched what he was doing.
He was frightened, too. He'd frightened himself.
The new drug and alcohol-free Ozzy Osbourne
is a fitness fanatic.
He'd work out for two, three hours at a time,
constant, you know, nonstop, won't take a break.
It's good fun, though.
Don't I look like I'm having good fun?
He drives himself crazy,
'cause if he doesn't do it each day,
then he gets really annoyed with himself.
Get fit! And die quicker.
Ozzy was doing really well.
He was, you know, he was working out.
He was... He was trying to be the best Ozzy
that he could be for us. He was...
He was trying his best. He really was.
♪ Times have changed ♪
After the darkness of the end of the '80s,
I started the '90s with one of my biggest albums.
But I had no idea that I might not tour again.
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
Hello. My name's Mr. Osbourne.
I was wondering if it was possible to speak to my wife,
Mrs. Sharon Osbourne.
♪ You could have been a better friend to me ♪
"No More Tears" was a big, big album for Ozzy.
Four times platinum.
♪ It hurts so bad, it's been so long ♪
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
♪ Selfish love, yeah, we're both alone ♪
Ozzy had said, you know, "This song's for you
"'cause I'm coming home. I'm...
"I think I've had enough of doing all of this,
and I'm coming home,"
and it was just... I still adore the song.
Adore it.
♪ 'Cause, Mama ♪
♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪
I mean, now I'm selling more records than ever.
I'm playing to bigger audiences than ever.
My record "No More Tears" is selling like crazy over here.
It's my biggest-selling record to date.
Dad's always had... a weird gait
to his walk and, like, this tremor,
and a doctor diagnosed him with multiple sclerosis.
And back then, with M.S., it was like,
get a good TV remote, because you're gonna end up bedridden.
And the doctor said "a little bit of M.S."
It's like saying you're a little bit pregnant.
You either are or you're [bleep] not, I think.
I don't know.
We knew that something wasn't....right with my dad.
And we saw a doctor after doctor after doctor.
So I figured out, too, but, you know,
I spent the whole of the week, you know.
I said... He said, "I want to run some tests."
I said, "Whatever you gotta do,
"if you keep me here for a [bleep] year,
I've just gotta find out one way or the other."
And the doctor, you know, he goes,
"You do not have M.S."
And I said, "I never thought I [bleep] did."
You know, it turns out that I had a hereditary
non-specific tremor.
It's very rare, what I have.
They give me a small amount of medication,
and I'm okay with it. I don't tremor anymore.
A lot of it was probably to do with excessive drug use
and alcohol use at the time, and his body was just... shot.
He did a lot of cocaine in the '80s.
This is, uh, supposed
to be my farewell tour.
We'll see.
And he did one last tour. He did the "No More Tours" tour.
It was the final leg of touring the "No More Tears" album,
and it was like the "Goodbye, Ozzy" kind of thing.
It's the end of the road, baby. I'm coming home.
- Really? - Yeah, really,
I'm coming home finally.
- Then let's go home. - All right, let's go.
It's my farewell tour.
The reason for being that is because
I still wanna make records, but I wanna spend less time
on the road, because getting on the bus was 12 hours...
it's not a very glamorous lifestyle.
It paid its toll on me because now my head
still thinks that my ass is 21, you know.
I remember his last show,
and I remember the fireworks going off at the end.
Something like, "I'll be back,"
and then I remember us just going home to England.
We went home, and it was the summertime,
and we'd just moved into our Welders House,
and it was like heaven, perfect.
Aah! No!
The kids had the best time.
This is Daddy.
And it was just... a really, really great time
because there was no pressure to do anything.
Aah! Aah! You little...
It was good. Dad was in a really good place.
He was really kind of, you know,
kind of settling into, you know, the notion of retired life.
The kids had the best time with their dad.
It was definitely the longest time of being with their dad,
just doing family.
That's all Ozzy did, was his family.
So he wasn't drinking and using,
and he was just great.
He usually ends up sleeping in the kitchen with the dogs,
and he lives in it. That's his room...
the couch on the kitchen.
Whenever Dad was home,
I always got the feeling he was bored,
like he never... even though
he complains to this day about touring,
he's not good at home.
Like, I literally just remember him as, like,
the dude on the couch.
♪ Do-do-do-do-do ♪
You know, he'd pick me up from school occasionally,
but he was always... I always just got the feeling
like he was like, "Well, what do I do? I'm here.
I'm... and this is not what I'm good at."
Dad, that's sick.
And I suddenly realized that Ozzy belongs on the road.
You know, Ozzy is, um, I mean, I felt like a caged animal.
I bought different toys and all kinds of things.
"My dad's like,
I'm gonna get a bicycle. I want to ride a bike,"
because the guy at the bike shop was also giving him weed,
you know, small, like, English village.
But it... I just remember him...
It was like his purpose in life got taken away from him.
Now I'm ready to come out and go crazy again, you know.
'Cause I really missed my audience.
I really missed...
There's not a thrill in the world like a...
a... like a great show, you know.
And then it was like,
you've gotta get back to the real world,
and so it was like, all right,
we should do Lollapalooza
and, you know, things like that,
and then the... the agent called back and said,
"Oh, no, you know, they don't want Ozzy on Lollapalooza.
He's not cool enough,"
and I'm like, how dare they say that?!
And my mom was like, "[bleep] you.
We're gonna start our own festival."
- Whoo! - Metal rules!
Yeah, let's do our own [bleep] thing.
And that's how we came up with Ozzfest.
Welcome to Ozzfest.
What makes Ozzfest so special
is that every outcast, every kid that was told
that they were weird for what they listened to
and what they dressed like
got to come together in one place
and be accepted and be themselves
and have the best day of their lives.
This is the best day of my whole life,
and it's gonna be awesome. Whoo!
Ozzfest was our summer camp.
We would get out of school and the next day
be on a flight to wherever it was starting.
Mum actually started to book the tour
in accordance with our school schedule.
Don't let Ozzy down,
because he's backstage listening to your asses right now!
I'll go out there, and I wanna give them
my heart and soul, and I really wanna do that every night,
and sometimes I can, but sometimes I can't,
and when I can't, I'm a pissed-off son of a bitch,
and when I can, I'm the happiest guy in the world.
Thank you! Good night...
Ozzfest was a big success, but when the TV show took off,
things got really [bleep] weird.
I went from sold-out shows and Ozzfest
to having TV cameras in my house.
Where did that come from?
Turn the [bleep] thing off! It's driving me mad, man!
♪ Crazy ♪
People would come into our house and go,
"Is it always like this?"
- Jack! - Oh, jeez.
Why don't you shut the [bleep] up?
Oh!
We would go, what?
- Aah! - Stop screaming!
We just do what we do, and many people would say,
"You have to film this."
The success of the show,
I think, really turned my dad into a household name.
And I think when "The Osbournes" came out,
he was worried that he was no longer
gonna get the validation from his fans
because he'd become so vulnerable.
Well, listen, I was a TV star.
I'm thinking, this is [bleep] unbelievable.
She won't come out.
Sharon!
The one part of the show that I thought was funny
when Lola the bulldog puked.
I mean, it was for real. That's the way we are,
dog poop and all.
Um, to be Ozzy Osbourne, it could be worse.
I could be Sting.
He'd crossed over, you know?
He'd made that leap from being the guy
on the poster in your teenage son's bedroom
to now the guy on the TV in the family living room,
and Mom and Dad loved him just as much in a different way.
Sharon, I will say very slowly,
"It is not my band, and I don't wanna do any promotions."
- Do you wanna do it? - Yes.
Seeing the fact that my father is a father
and a good father and despite his flaws,
and a rock star,
it'd trip people out, and it made them... love him.
I love you all. I love you more than life itself.
You're all [bleep] mad.
It was the first time that any sort of celebrity
had opened up their home,
but yet they related to our family.
Their old man couldn't work a remote control either.
The people that really matter were the public,
and the public related and loved Ozzy.
In one respect, it was fantastic.
But I'm glad it ended when it did,
because when you've got cameras in your house 24/7,
you start to feel like
a [bleep] experiment, you know?
When you become a TV star, you're in people's homes,
and it's so much bigger than actually being a rock star.
It's like from here to here.
What a fantastic audience
we have tonight.
Celebrities, Hollywood stars.
Ozzy Osbourne.
Ozzy "Ozburn."
I just love that.
Aah!
I thought, how did that happen?
Oh, my! Look who's there!
I know that that made my dad feel very special.
Being the boy from Birmingham who grew up with nothing
to... being invited to the White House.
Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff.
You know that level of success,
you know it's gonna come down.
You fire an arrow pointed up to the stratosphere,
it's gonna come back down.
Everything is so good.
I'm always like one of these people,
like, you know, typical Jewish mother.
Something's gonna happen. It can't be this good, you know?
When I found out, seriously,
it was like someone stabbed me in the chest.
You think something like that can never come into your family.
But when it does, it's just a really big shock.
At first, you're like, oh, [bleep],
what are we gonna do now?
You don't accept it, but you don't ignore it, you know.
The diagnosis was colon cancer.
On one hand, we're the biggest thing since sliced bread
for five minutes, and then when they told me
my wife's got colon cancer, I was like,
it's like a bad dream.
We're doing our own version of "ER."
So this is your first, first, first, right?
Just like a virgin.
- Be gentle, Gabriel. - I'll be very gentle.
Do they put you to sleep?
They give you a pill, and the pain goes away.
I'm not frightened. I'm not any of that.
I love you.
I remember everything just felt like,
oh, my God. We're gonna lose my mom.
This is... We can't do this. Like, this is terrible.
And then when my dad found out,
it... it sent him over the deep end,
like literally sent him over the deep end.
Ozzy was self-medicating because of everything
that had happened with me.
Watching my mum be sick, he could not handle.
He started drinking and using more than I had ever seen him.
Someone has been in my room
and taken my bed away from my room.
- I don't think so, darling. - Uh...
Who would do that?
'Cause I had kind of swallowed the pill
that she ain't gonna make it.
Ozzy!
But in that, you could see how much he loved her,
how much he adored my mum,
even though he made the whole process
so much harder.
Ozzy and Kelly recorded a cover of "Changes,"
and they were going to promote it in Europe
so they were in England.
♪ She is my baby ♪
"Changes" was always
one of my favorite Black Sabbath songs.
♪ But it's too late now ♪
It was written by me
and the guys from Sabbath a long time ago.
It was my first number one in England for years.
♪ We're going through changes ♪
And it was a huge hit for the both of us,
♪ Changes ♪
To have your first number one with your dad
and for it to be your dad's first number one was magic.
You guys were flawless.
Great. I love you. I love you.
But if ever there was a moment in my family
where everything seems good,
I sit there and I'm like, "What's coming?"
A lovely day today.
I'm just gonna go lap around the field.
Oz!
Ozzy, can you breathe?
Someone get back and get an ambulance.
Get an ambulance!
I was live on a TV show in England,
promoting the single,
and a policeman walked into the studio
and was standing by the camera, and I was like,
oh, my God. I'm about to get arrested.
The policeman walked me into a room,
handed me a phone
and said, "It's your mum,"
and my mum was going through chemo
at that time, and my mum said, "I need you to sit down."
What's wrong?
She said to me, "Your dad's had an accident.
"We don't know what's going on.
"We don't know if he's gonna make it.
I need you to get to him."
- Is Dad all right? - He's got bleeding in one lung,
and they might have to go in and operate on that.
They've got a specialist on the way to see him.
- [bleep], that's bad. - Big-time, Jack.
They took me to Wexham Hospital,
and he came out of surgery. They wouldn't let me see him.
And they... he was in a coma, but at one point,
I had a mother in intensive care in L.A.,
and a father in intensive care in England.
Osbourne fractured eight ribs,
cracked a vertebrae in his neck, and broke his collarbone.
He underwent emergency surgery.
And as soon as I'd got the call, I'm like, okay,
which is the first flight out of here?
I remember landing at Heathrow,
and the police were waiting for me
to take me straight to the hospital,
and your husband's lying there in a coma,
and there's, you know, tubes coming out of everywhere
in his body, and it was just...
brutal, absolutely brutal.
And in typical Ozzy style, he discharged himself.
They were all, "You know, you can't do this.
You're gonna die. There's no way."
Okay, I'm going home with eight broken ribs,
broken neck, smashed collarbone.
Every part or my body feels like I've been thrown
off a [bleep] building.
I'm never riding a [bleep] bike again, ever.
He came through it, and that is why
instances like this that my father has always seemed
so invincible to me.
He is the real Iron Man.
I'm just a very fortunate man to be still here
talking to you about my life.
You think, "Oh, this family's got a curse,"
but yet so many great things happen.
But it's always been like a 4-ring circus,
our life, you know?
It's like...
My blood work is completely clear of cancer,
and I finish my treatment in January.
That feeling's pretty damn good,
to be told you're cancer-free.
- Yeah! - And that's just Sharon.
She's unbelievable. She... Nothing fazes her.
My heart was breaking every night onstage.
I put on a brave face,
but when you've got a broken heart
'cause someone that you love has got sick,
you can't pretend not to have a broken heart.
She's doing [bleep] great, man.
I owe my life to Sharon.
The thought of losing her was just absolutely unbearable.
When the chemo was over, Sharon's cancer was gone.
Can you visualize yourself doing this at 50 years old,
- playing rock 'n' roll? - No.
I mean, I suppose I'll still be involved in some form of music
one way or other, but I don't think I'll be
doing it at this pace another 15 years.
Retiring? [bleep] off.
Are you ready?
I just turned 70.
Ozzy, happy [bleep] birthday, mate! Yeah!
- I'm sober today. - Love you.
And, you know, and yesterday I was sober.
The day before that, I was sober.
And I don't plan on getting drunk today,
but I don't know.
I can honestly tell you
I never thought he would get sober.
I just didn't realize how much more I was capable
of loving him when he was sober.
He is a different person, completely.
One's too many, and 10's not enough,
and that's so [bleep] true.
When you wake up, and you don't like
the way you feel every morning, you go,
something's gotta go one way or the other.
I just didn't like me anymore.
He is known as the Prince of Darkness,
but this morning, for the first time,
legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne,
alongside his wife and manager Sharon,
is shedding light on a private health battle
and the moment he says everything changed
last February.
I had a bad fall.
I had to have surgery on my neck,
which screwed all my nerves in,
and I found out that I have, uh...
It's, um Parkin 2, which is a form of Parkinson's.
The initial shock is, "I've got Parkinson's!"
But nobody knows what the [bleep] it is.
I didn't know anything about it apart from the name.
He's been diagnosed with full-onset Parkinson's.
Why should it be a dirty little secret?
So if anybody out there gets diagnosed,
don't be afraid to ask questions.
It was at a place where...
you can't run from it, you can't hide from it.
Something's wrong.
I'm no good with secrets.
I cannot walk around with it anymore.
Because it's like I'm running out of excuses, you know.
He may not be able to run up and down
like he used to onstage,
but it's still about the voice,
and he's still a funny [bleep].
Nothing can take that away. Nothing.
Number one question from me was,
is it a terminal illness?
And the guy says, "No, but life is."
It's just another thing on my plate that I gotta deal with.
I'm not in the slightest worried about it.
Just no hiding it now.
He's in a position to help a lot of people.
He can become a really amazing source of inspiration
for a lot of people living with this disease.
You know what?
Life goes on.
But right now, right here today, I'm [bleep] great.
'cause I ain't done yet, you know?
I got a lot left.
And we're doing that album, which is
the best medication I've had all along.
Doing the record with Andrew Watt saved my life.
He's always had a funny walk, so [bleep] it.
You know? This ain't nothing different.
No pity. He doesn't need pity.
He just needs a stage.
You know, Ozzy's always been a man
of the people, which for me is... is just
one of the things I love about him.
My audience is better than any drugs,
alcohol, sex, woman, relationship,
apart from my immediate family, I mean.
I mean, it's the best love affair of my life, my audience.
I think he feels an obligation to himself
and I think he feels an obligation to his fans,
and that's, I think, the sign of good music,
is because it hasn't skipped a generation.
His music has touched every generation,
you know, that's been exposed to it since it came out.
I think that the audience has a sense of that could be me.
I think he's a regular bloke.
He does these wild things that seem dangerous
and may actually be dangerous,
and we... we receive that information as freedom.
And the idea of being free like Ozzy is very exciting.
I don't think Ozzy is similar to anybody.
To me, Ozzy's just original.
So you get stripes for that in my book.
He's like the godfather of... of metal.
The guy's no joke. He... He... He lives it.
He did party and all that other stuff,
but I respect him as an artist,
and he really gives his all for his performances
and to give the fans something they want.
I'm 23, and I feel like
sometimes I can't do a [bleep] tour,
but Ozzy's still crushing 'em and kicking ass to this day.
I think it's pretty bad-ass. It's incredible.
You can't be defined as this one thing
when you're someone like Ozzy.
He's one of the only people that, maybe other than Bowie,
that I can think of that smiles onstage.
He always has a huge smile on his face
like he's gonna burst out laughing,
or he is laughing, and that is so infectious,
especially in a genre where everybody's trying to
out-grimace everybody else, out-tough everybody else,
and Ozzy is just at the center of it,
like, with this giant grin on his face the whole time.
Like, "When do you think he's gonna retire?"
I'm like, "Look at him up there.
Look at the smile on his face. He ain't going nowhere."
Talking to him, I'm like,
"Do you feel like you've done it?"
And he's like, "No." And that kills me.
He's never sat back and gone, "I'm good. I did it."
There's guilt and shame associated with his journey.
I think you never feel like you've made it.
That's the paranoia that you always have.
As soon as you kick back and you think you've made it, it's over.
You always feel like you're one second away from being done.
Both Black Sabbath and his solo material
were the, uh, the playbook for heavy metal.
I don't know what music would be like
if it weren't for the influence of Ozzy.
It's everywhere.
Ozzy changed everything.
♪ All day long I think of things ♪
♪ But nothing seems to satisfy ♪
♪ Think I'll lose my mind ♪
His voice is his legacy.
It's so instantly... identifiable.
You hear one note, you know that's Ozzy.
♪ Occupy my brain ♪
Everything you wanna say is right there in the music.
He constantly works at trying to be a better person,
trying with his sobriety,
becoming a better father, being a good granddad.
and just constantly, constantly trying to be better.
I love that about him.
I think people love my father for the same reasons
I love my father.
He is the most irresistible madman
you will ever meet in your life.
Pearl's class is singing "Crazy Train"
at their school play. Um...
I don't know. It's just... It's kinda cool.
You know, yeah, he's done a lot of, like, [bleep] weird things
and he's been [bleep] at times,
but, like, his contributions have been far greater
than any of his faults.
Like, that's how he should be remembered.
And then I'll [bleep] do an encore.
I'm the Prince of Darkness.
This right here was the very first tattoo
when I was about 14.
My father kicked my [bleep] ass
when I got home with it.
And I bought some Indian ink. I did that myself.
That was done in prison by a guy
who was doing life for [bleep] killing somebody.
The thing about tattoos is a tattoo is not just for now.
It's for the rest of your [bleep] life.
But you know what? Another thing.
Tattoos [bleep] hurt.
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