This page will contain images about Ozzy Osbourne, as they become available.Ozzy OsbourneForenote: All references to the sport of football refer to the European sport, dubbed "soccer" by Americans. John Michael Osbourne (born December 3, 1948, in Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England), better known as Ozzy Osbourne, was the lead singer of the rock band Black Sabbath and later a popular solo artist. Osbourne has been married twice and is father to five children: Jessica Hobbs and Louis Osbourne by first wife Thelma; and Aimee, Kelly and Jack, by current wife Sharon. He is also a football fan, supporting Aston Villa. Early careerOzzy Osbourne, who earned his nickname in his youth, sought a career as a rock singer after hearing The Beatles on the radio, in hopes that it would lift him out of his difficult working-class existence, in which he had some scrapes with the law. Ozzy was not a particulary talented criminal. He wore gloves to steal from houses and shops so as not to leave fingerprints, but they were fingerless gloves and he was soon arrested. He was sentenced to six weeks at Winson Green Prison. He used his time there to give himself his now famous tattoos: OZZY across his knuckles and a smiling face on each knee to cheer himself up. He had several jobs before turning to music, including testing car horns in the Lucas car factory and on the kill floor of an abattoir. Osbourne slowly began to realize his ambitions in 1967; after filling in on vocals for a band called The Music Machine, he landed the singer's duties in an outfit called The Approach, playing R&B tunes in a church basement. Personal differences led Ozzy to split with the group, however. Thanks in part to the advantage of owning his own P.A. equipment his next gig was with a group called Rare Breed, where he met and played with future Black Sabbath bandmate, bassist Terence "Geezer" Butler. Rare Breed did not last long, but Osbourne's collaboration with Butler did; in late 1968, Butler was invited to form a new group with guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, both formerly of a fairly successful local group called Mythology. At Butler's urgings, Osbourne was brought on board, along with saxophonist Alan Clarke and another guitar player, Jim Phillips, to form the Polka Tulk Blues Band. Ozzy came up with the name after seeing it on a can of talcum powder. Iommi's style of guitar playing did not mesh well with Phillips's, however, nor with Clarke's saxophone. Polka Tulk disbanded, to reform almost immediately as a four-piece consisting of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward. Black SabbathBlack Sabbath met with swift and enduring success; their early records such as their self-titled debut, Paranoid and Master of Reality in particular are considered heavy metal canon, and selections from Ozzy's Sabbath days have featured prominently in his solo performances. The rigors of touring and financial success combined to lead some of the band members to drug and alcohol abuse, including Osbourne. Nevertheless, the group remained a steadily successful act for over eight years. Over the duration, however, Iommi began to take the band's music in a more progressive and experimental direction, to Osbourne's distaste. Osbourne was kicked out of the group briefly after the band's 1976 effort Technical Ecstasy, and Sabbath went so far as to begin writing and recording with a new singer. Ozzy returned however, to record and tour behind 1978's Never Say Die, after which he left the group again in 1979, to be replaced by Ronnie James Dio. Depressed, his drug and alcohol abuse continued. He divorced his first wife, Thelma, and developed bipolar disorder. Undaunted, Osbourne attempted to launch a solo career, and met with considerable success on his very first effort. MisbehaviourAccording to press accounts, Osbourne's antics progressively worsened during the 1980s, his alcohol and drug abuse continuing. He famously bit off the head of a dove during a meeting with his newly signed record company, CBS — though it has been speculated that this was a calculated stunt meant to intimidate the label executives into giving Osbourne more favorable contractual terms. Ozzy was also hospitalized for rabies vaccinations after biting the head off of a stunned bat (which he later claimed to have thought was a rubber toy) thrown on stage by a fan. He was arrested after urinating on The Alamo while wearing one of his wife's dresses, for which he was banned from San Antonio, Texas for the next ten years. He later underwent a number of treatments for alcoholism and drug abuse. In March 1982, while in Florida for the Diary of A Madman tour, a light aircraft carrying Rhoads crashed while performing low passes over the band's tour bus. The pilot (also the tour bus driver) clipped the parked bus and crashed into a nearby house, killing himself, Rhoads, and the band's tour hairdresser. Osbourne subsequently fell into a deep depression, compounded by the death of his father. Recovery, Or Not?During the 1980s and 1990s, Osbourne's career was an effort on two fronts: continuing to make music without Rhoads, and getting clean. Rhoads's first replacement was Bernie Torme (who reportedly could not cope with the pressures of live performance, and who never recorded with Ozzy), followed by Brad Gillis of Night Ranger, who filled in for an album called Speak of the Devil. This live title, known in the United Kingdom as Talk of the Devil, was originally planned to consist of live recordings from 1981, primarily of Ozzy's solo material, but after Rhoads's death, Osbourne changed his mind, and the album ended up consisting entirely of Ozzy's Black Sabbath material, recorded with Gillis, Sarzo, and Aldridge. In 1982 Ozzy was the guest vocalist on the Was (not Was) pop dance track Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed). He replaced the original first choice, Madonna. Her original vocal today remains just one of many Unreleased Madonna Songs. Ozzy's cut was remixed and re-released in the early 1990s for a Was (not Was) Greatest Hits album in Europe and it cracked the UK pop chart. Madonna asked that her vocal not be restored for the hits package, so new vocals by Kim Basinger were added to complement the Ozzy lead. Jake E. Lee, formerly of Ratt and Rough Cutt, was a more successful recruit than Torme, recording 1983's Bark at the Moon (with Daisley, Aldridge, and keyboard player Don Airey) and 1986's The Ultimate Sin (with bassist Phil Soussan and drummer Randy Castillo) and touring behind both albums. Meanwhile, Ozzy was becoming involved in a legal battle of his own. In late 1986, he was the target in the first of a series of lawsuits brought against him, alleging that one of his songs, Suicide Solution, drove two teenagers to commit suicide because of its subliminal lyrics. Ozzy would ultimately prevail in all of the suits, which the judges would basically rule that Ozzy cannot be held accountable for a listener's actions. Soon after, Ozzy publicly acknowledged he wrote Suicide Solution about his friend, AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott, who died from alcohol abuse, and that alcohol as a solution to one's problems is not the answer (hence the song's title). Jake E. Lee and Osbourne parted ways in 1987, however, reportedly due to musical differences. Ozzy continued to struggle with his chemical dependencies, and commemorated the fifth anniversary of Rhoads's death with Tribute, the live recordings from 1981 that had gone unreleased for years. Excellently recorded, the album cemented Rhoads's legendary stature as an imaginative and talented musician. Meanwhile, Ozzy found his most enduring replacement for Rhoads to date, a guitarist named Zakk Wylde, plucked from a New Jersey bar. Wylde joined Ozzy for his 1988 effort, No Rest for the Wicked, in which Castillo remained on drums and Daisley returned to bass duties. The subsequent tour saw Osbourne reunited with erstwhile Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler on bass, and a live EP (entitled Just Say Ozzy) featuring this lineup was released two years later. Commercial successWhile quite successful as a heavy metal act in the 1980s, Osbourne began to enjoy much broader commercial success in the 1990s, starting with 1991's No More Tears, which enjoyed much radio and MTV exposure. It also initiated a practice of bringing in outside composers to pen much of Ozzy's solo material, instead of relying solely upon the recording ensemble to write and arrange the music. Yet another live album followed in 1993, Live and Loud. At this point Osbourne expressed his fatigue with the process of touring, and proclaimed his "retirement", which was to be short-lived. Osbourne's entire CD catalog was remastered and reissued in 1995. Also that year, he released Ozzmosis and went on stage again, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement Sucks Tour". A greatest hits package, The Ozzman Cometh was issued in 1997. Ozzy's biggest financial success of the 1990s was a venture named Ozzfest, created by his wife Sharon and managed loosely by his son Jack. Ozzfest was a quick hit with metal fans, spurring groups like Incubus and Papa Roach to broad exposure and commercial success. Some acts even had the pleasure to share the bill with a reformed, yet much older Black Sabbath. Osbourne's first album of new studio material in seven years, 2001's Down to Earth met with only mediocre success, as did its live followup, Live at Budokan. In the wake of a lawsuit by former band members Daisley and Kerslake, reportedly for unpaid royalties, Osbourne's catalogue was "remastered" again in 2002. The bass guitar and drum tracks from Osbourne's first two albums were re-recorded entirely, and the original versions (which featured Daisley and Kerslake) were dropped. At least two titles, Speak of the Devil and The Ultimate Sin, were permitted to go out of print entirely. TV showOsbourne garnered still greater celebrity status by the unlikely success of his own bizarre brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a program featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family (wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly, but not daughter Aimee, who declined to participate), has turned into one of MTV's greatest hits. Recent newsDuring 2003, a member of Birmingham City Council campaigned for him to be given Freedom of the City. On December 8, 2003, Osbourne was rushed into emergency surgery when he was involved in an accident involving the use of his all-terrain vehicle on his estate in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK. Osbourne broke his collar bone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck. An operation was performed to lift the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on a major artery and interrupting blood flow to the arm. Sharon later revealed that Osbourne had stopped breathing following the crash and was resuscitated by a security guard. Hospital reports indicated that, despite the severity of his injuries, a full recovery was expected. While in hospital, Osborne achieved his first ever UK number one single, a duet of the Black Sabbath song Changes with daughter Kelly. In doing so, he broke the record of the longest period between an artists's first UK chart appearance (with Black Sabbath, Paranoid, number four in August 1970) and their first number one hit — a gap of 33 years. Since the accident, he has fully recovered and headlined the 2004 Ozzfest, where he again reunited with Black Sabbath. He has also turned his hand to writing a Broadway musical. The reputed topic is that of the Russian mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, who held sway with Russia's royal Romanov family. He is slated to release a box set of his solo work entitled the Bible of Ozz in February of 2005. It is rumoured to contain two long-awaited discs, one being a collection of outtakes, rare demos and duets, and the other being a set of cover songs. He takes on the Beatles, King Crimson and the Rolling Stones on this much-anticipated release. He and wife Sharon are also on yet another MTV show, this time a competition come reality show entitled "Battle for Ozzfest". A number of yet unsigned bands send one member to compete in a challenge to win a spot on the 2005 Ozzfest and a possible recording contract. Favourite British albumsIn June 2004 British newspaper The Observer asked Osbourne to name his top ten favourite British albums of all time. He named:
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He named:. For the last few years, Proby has continued theatre work. In June 2004 British newspaper The Observer asked Osbourne to name his top ten favourite British albums of all time. The single "Yesterday Has Gone" reaches Number 4 on the UK chart. A number of yet unsigned bands send one member to compete in a challenge to win a spot on the 2005 Ozzfest and a possible recording contract. A year later Proby returns to a new production of Elvis as well as releasing the album Legend featuring contributions from Mark Almond, and Neal X from Sigue Sigue Sputnik. He and wife Sharon are also on yet another MTV show, this time a competition come reality show entitled "Battle for Ozzfest". In 1991 Proby suffered a heart attack which curtailed his activities until 1995 when he reappears on stage in the biographical musical Roy Orbison as Orbison. He takes on the Beatles, King Crimson and the Rolling Stones on this much-anticipated release. His career followed a similar path trod by Tom Jones in the 1980s, by covering contemporary songs beginning with a version of Joy Division's epic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" followed with Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and The Sex Pistol's "Anarchy in the UK", he enjoyed minor success but unlike Jones, was largely neglected by the media. It is rumoured to contain two long-awaited discs, one being a collection of outtakes, rare demos and duets, and the other being a set of cover songs. He then returned to singing in clubs before embarking on a change of direction. He is slated to release a box set of his solo work entitled the Bible of Ozz in February of 2005. In 1978, Proby recorded with Dutch rock group Focus releasing Focus con Proby. The reputed topic is that of the Russian mad monk, Grigory Rasputin, who held sway with Russia's royal Romanov family. Signing with Good again in 1977, he portrayed Elvis Presley in a theatrical production of the singer, Elvis: on Stage with received rave reviews, winning a Best Musical of the Year award. He has also turned his hand to writing a Broadway musical. After Catch My Soul he continued to perform mostly in cabarets and nightclubs, singing 1960s ballads and rhythm 'n' blues material. Since the accident, he has fully recovered and headlined the 2004 Ozzfest, where he again reunited with Black Sabbath. It enjoyed a successful run in London's West End. In doing so, he broke the record of the longest period between an artists's first UK chart appearance (with Black Sabbath, Paranoid, number four in August 1970) and their first number one hit — a gap of 33 years. In 1971, he appeared on stage as Iago in a rock musical version of Shakespeare's Othello, called Catch My Soul. While in hospital, Osborne achieved his first ever UK number one single, a duet of the Black Sabbath song Changes with daughter Kelly. A collection of country-style ballads mixed with blues, the album is noted more for its association with Led Zeppelin than its commercial success. Sharon later revealed that Osbourne had stopped breathing following the crash and was resuscitated by a security guard. Hospital reports indicated that, despite the severity of his injuries, a full recovery was expected. With the future members of Led Zeppelin, Proby recorded Three Week Hero in 1969. An operation was performed to lift the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on a major artery and interrupting blood flow to the arm. He returned to the United States to rest and start a horse breeding business. Osbourne broke his collar bone, eight ribs and a vertebra in his neck. Poor investment decisions led Proby to briefly declare himself bankrupt. On December 8, 2003, Osbourne was rushed into emergency surgery when he was involved in an accident involving the use of his all-terrain vehicle on his estate in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK. He is then cast in the production of Finian's Rainbow, but is overshadowed by financial problems. During 2003, a member of Birmingham City Council campaigned for him to be given Freedom of the City. In 1967 Proby scores a Top 30 hit "Niki Hoeky" in the United States. The Osbournes, a program featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family (wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly, but not daughter Aimee, who declined to participate), has turned into one of MTV's greatest hits. He also challenged Tom Jones to a singing contest but Jones did not respond. Osbourne garnered still greater celebrity status by the unlikely success of his own bizarre brand of reality television. During a concert with Cilla Black in 1967, he asked to be paid in advance and was controversially dropped from the rest of her tour by theatre managers. At least two titles, Speak of the Devil and The Ultimate Sin, were permitted to go out of print entirely. Critics and the audience were divided on whether he was using a gimmick to promote his image or just being an eccentric rock star. The bass guitar and drum tracks from Osbourne's first two albums were re-recorded entirely, and the original versions (which featured Daisley and Kerslake) were dropped. The trouser splitting happened again at the next venue. In the wake of a lawsuit by former band members Daisley and Kerslake, reportedly for unpaid royalties, Osbourne's catalogue was "remastered" again in 2002. The females in the audience went wild. Osbourne's first album of new studio material in seven years, 2001's Down to Earth met with only mediocre success, as did its live followup, Live at Budokan. His career however was also affected by controversies. Wearing skin tight trousers on stage, during a concert in England in 1966, they split open. Some acts even had the pleasure to share the bill with a reformed, yet much older Black Sabbath. A royalty dispute with Liberty Records in 1966, breaks his run of success on the singles chart. Ozzfest was a quick hit with metal fans, spurring groups like Incubus and Papa Roach to broad exposure and commercial success. Under the production of Good, Proby's balladeer style and theatrical presentation scored a string of hits in 1964 with "Hold Me", "Together" (featuring session guitarist Jimmy Page), "Somewhere", "Maria", and "I Apologise". Ozzy's biggest financial success of the 1990s was a venture named Ozzfest, created by his wife Sharon and managed loosely by his son Jack. Proby, Good's deliberately created an overtly sexual image for Proby. Appearing on The Beatles 1964 television special, he received great media interest with his tight trousers, frilled shirts, and pony-tailed hairstyle. A greatest hits package, The Ozzman Cometh was issued in 1997. J. Also that year, he released Ozzmosis and went on stage again, dubbing his concert performances "The Retirement Sucks Tour". By then dropping Jett Powers in favour of using the name P. At this point Osbourne expressed his fatigue with the process of touring, and proclaimed his "retirement", which was to be short-lived. Osbourne's entire CD catalog was remastered and reissued in 1995. He travels to London where he meets songwriter Jackie DeShannon in 1963, who introduces him to TV producer Jack Good who sees Proby as a future star. Yet another live album followed in 1993, Live and Loud. In 1962 he begins songwriting and recording demos, when he is spotted by the label Liberty Records. While quite successful as a heavy metal act in the 1980s, Osbourne began to enjoy much broader commercial success in the 1990s, starting with 1991's No More Tears, which enjoyed much radio and MTV exposure. It also initiated a practice of bringing in outside composers to pen much of Ozzy's solo material, instead of relying solely upon the recording ensemble to write and arrange the music. Two singles "Go Girl Go" and "Loud Perfume" are released on an independent label but are not noticed. The subsequent tour saw Osbourne reunited with erstwhile Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler on bass, and a live EP (entitled Just Say Ozzy) featuring this lineup was released two years later. Using the stage name Jett Powers, he takes acting and singing lessons and appears in movies with small roles. Meanwhile, Ozzy found his most enduring replacement for Rhoads to date, a guitarist named Zakk Wylde, plucked from a New Jersey bar. Wylde joined Ozzy for his 1988 effort, No Rest for the Wicked, in which Castillo remained on drums and Daisley returned to bass duties. His family moved to Los Angeles, California where he developed an interest in rockabilly and Elvis Presley. Excellently recorded, the album cemented Rhoads's legendary stature as an imaginative and talented musician. He grew up in a military family where he receives an education at a base school. Ozzy continued to struggle with his chemical dependencies, and commemorated the fifth anniversary of Rhoads's death with Tribute, the live recordings from 1981 that had gone unreleased for years. Proby was born in Houston, Texas. Lee and Osbourne parted ways in 1987, however, reportedly due to musical differences. Proby was suggested to him by a friend Sharon Sheeley, after a high school boyfriend. Jake E. His name P.J. Ozzy would ultimately prevail in all of the suits, which the judges would basically rule that Ozzy cannot be held accountable for a listener's actions. Soon after, Ozzy publicly acknowledged he wrote Suicide Solution about his friend, AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott, who died from alcohol abuse, and that alcohol as a solution to one's problems is not the answer (hence the song's title). Proby, born James Marcus Smith (November 6, 1938), is a singer, songwriter, and actor noted for his outstanding theatrical portrayal of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison and interpretations of modern standards, much in the vein of Tom Jones. In late 1986, he was the target in the first of a series of lawsuits brought against him, alleging that one of his songs, Suicide Solution, drove two teenagers to commit suicide because of its subliminal lyrics. P.J. Meanwhile, Ozzy was becoming involved in a legal battle of his own. Legend (1996). Lee, formerly of Ratt and Rough Cutt, was a more successful recruit than Torme, recording 1983's Bark at the Moon (with Daisley, Aldridge, and keyboard player Don Airey) and 1986's The Ultimate Sin (with bassist Phil Soussan and drummer Randy Castillo) and touring behind both albums. The Savoy Sessions (1995) (compilation). Jake E. Thanks (1991). Madonna asked that her vocal not be restored for the hits package, so new vocals by Kim Basinger were added to complement the Ozzy lead. Clown Shoes (1987). Ozzy's cut was remixed and re-released in the early 1990s for a Was (not Was) Greatest Hits album in Europe and it cracked the UK pop chart. The Hero (1981). Her original vocal today remains just one of many Unreleased Madonna Songs. I'm Yours (1972). He replaced the original first choice, Madonna. Three Week Hero (1969). In 1982 Ozzy was the guest vocalist on the Was (not Was) pop dance track Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed). Believe It or Not (1968). This live title, known in the United Kingdom as Talk of the Devil, was originally planned to consist of live recordings from 1981, primarily of Ozzy's solo material, but after Rhoads's death, Osbourne changed his mind, and the album ended up consisting entirely of Ozzy's Black Sabbath material, recorded with Gillis, Sarzo, and Aldridge. Phenomenon (1967). Rhoads's first replacement was Bernie Torme (who reportedly could not cope with the pressures of live performance, and who never recorded with Ozzy), followed by Brad Gillis of Night Ranger, who filled in for an album called Speak of the Devil. Enigma (1966). During the 1980s and 1990s, Osbourne's career was an effort on two fronts: continuing to make music without Rhoads, and getting clean. Proby in Person (1965) (live). Osbourne subsequently fell into a deep depression, compounded by the death of his father. P.J. The pilot (also the tour bus driver) clipped the parked bus and crashed into a nearby house, killing himself, Rhoads, and the band's tour hairdresser. Proby (1965). In March 1982, while in Florida for the Diary of A Madman tour, a light aircraft carrying Rhoads crashed while performing low passes over the band's tour bus. P.J. He later underwent a number of treatments for alcoholism and drug abuse. Proby (1965). He was arrested after urinating on The Alamo while wearing one of his wife's dresses, for which he was banned from San Antonio, Texas for the next ten years. I am P.J. Ozzy was also hospitalized for rabies vaccinations after biting the head off of a stunned bat (which he later claimed to have thought was a rubber toy) thrown on stage by a fan. He famously bit off the head of a dove during a meeting with his newly signed record company, CBS — though it has been speculated that this was a calculated stunt meant to intimidate the label executives into giving Osbourne more favorable contractual terms. According to press accounts, Osbourne's antics progressively worsened during the 1980s, his alcohol and drug abuse continuing. Undaunted, Osbourne attempted to launch a solo career, and met with considerable success on his very first effort. He divorced his first wife, Thelma, and developed bipolar disorder. Depressed, his drug and alcohol abuse continued. Ozzy returned however, to record and tour behind 1978's Never Say Die, after which he left the group again in 1979, to be replaced by Ronnie James Dio. Osbourne was kicked out of the group briefly after the band's 1976 effort Technical Ecstasy, and Sabbath went so far as to begin writing and recording with a new singer. Over the duration, however, Iommi began to take the band's music in a more progressive and experimental direction, to Osbourne's distaste. Nevertheless, the group remained a steadily successful act for over eight years. The rigors of touring and financial success combined to lead some of the band members to drug and alcohol abuse, including Osbourne. Black Sabbath met with swift and enduring success; their early records such as their self-titled debut, Paranoid and Master of Reality in particular are considered heavy metal canon, and selections from Ozzy's Sabbath days have featured prominently in his solo performances. Polka Tulk disbanded, to reform almost immediately as a four-piece consisting of Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, and Ward. Iommi's style of guitar playing did not mesh well with Phillips's, however, nor with Clarke's saxophone. Ozzy came up with the name after seeing it on a can of talcum powder. At Butler's urgings, Osbourne was brought on board, along with saxophonist Alan Clarke and another guitar player, Jim Phillips, to form the Polka Tulk Blues Band. Rare Breed did not last long, but Osbourne's collaboration with Butler did; in late 1968, Butler was invited to form a new group with guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, both formerly of a fairly successful local group called Mythology. equipment his next gig was with a group called Rare Breed, where he met and played with future Black Sabbath bandmate, bassist Terence "Geezer" Butler. Thanks in part to the advantage of owning his own P.A. Personal differences led Ozzy to split with the group, however. Osbourne slowly began to realize his ambitions in 1967; after filling in on vocals for a band called The Music Machine, he landed the singer's duties in an outfit called The Approach, playing R&B tunes in a church basement. He had several jobs before turning to music, including testing car horns in the Lucas car factory and on the kill floor of an abattoir. He used his time there to give himself his now famous tattoos: OZZY across his knuckles and a smiling face on each knee to cheer himself up. He was sentenced to six weeks at Winson Green Prison. He wore gloves to steal from houses and shops so as not to leave fingerprints, but they were fingerless gloves and he was soon arrested. Ozzy was not a particulary talented criminal. Ozzy Osbourne, who earned his nickname in his youth, sought a career as a rock singer after hearing The Beatles on the radio, in hopes that it would lift him out of his difficult working-class existence, in which he had some scrapes with the law. He is also a football fan, supporting Aston Villa. Osbourne has been married twice and is father to five children: Jessica Hobbs and Louis Osbourne by first wife Thelma; and Aimee, Kelly and Jack, by current wife Sharon. John Michael Osbourne (born December 3, 1948, in Aston, a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England), better known as Ozzy Osbourne, was the lead singer of the rock band Black Sabbath and later a popular solo artist. Forenote: All references to the sport of football refer to the European sport, dubbed "soccer" by Americans. 2003 "Changes" (with Kelly Osbourne) #1 UK. 2002 "Dreamer/Gets Me Through" #18 UK. 1995 "Perry Mason" #23 UK. 1992 "Mama, I'm Coming Home" #28 US. 1991 "No More Tears" #31 UK. 1986 "Shot in the Dark" #20 UK. 1984 "So Tired" #20 UK. 1983 "Bark at the Moon" #21 UK. Bible of Ozz - 2005 (box). The Essential Ozzy Osbourne - 2003 (compilation), #21 UK, #81 US. Live at Budokan - 2002 (live), #70 US. The Osbournes Family Album - 2002 (compilation). Ozzfsest 2001 The Second Millenium - 2001 (compilation)
Down to Earth - 2001, #19 UK, #4 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. The Ozzfest - 1997 (compilation, out of print). The Ozzman Cometh - 1997 (compilation), #13 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. Ozzmosis - 1995, #22 UK, #4 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. Live and Loud - 1993 (live), #22 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. No More Tears - 1991, #17 UK, #7 US, US Sales: 4,000,000. Just Say Ozzy - 1990 (live, EP), #58 US, US Sales: 500,000. Ten Commandments - 1990, (rare out of print, greatest hits). Best of Ozz - 1989 (compilation). No Rest for the Wicked - 1988, #23 UK, #13 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. Tribute - 1987 (live), #13 UK, #6 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. The Ultimate Sin - 1986, #8 UK, #6 US, US Sales: 2,000,000. Bark at the Moon - 1983, #24 UK, #19 US, US Sales: 3,000,000. Speak of the Devil - 1982 (live), #21 UK, #14 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. Diary of a Madman - 1981, #14 UK, #16 US, US Sales: 3,000,000. Blizzard Of Ozz - 1981, #7 UK, #21 US, US Sales: 4,000,000. Machine Head - Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin. Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads. Imagine - John Lennon. Abbey Road - The Beatles. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd. So - Peter Gabriel. Band on the Run - Paul McCartney. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles. Sgt. Revolver - The Beatles. |