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After the Black Sabbath reunuion gig I decided I must see Ozzy and Sharon again when I get back from the Grand Tour in the autumn. I shall still do so with Sharon.
Part of his charm on stage was that he wasn't very good but he knew it and didn't care. Which was why everybody loved him. But his honesty and sweetness came through in everything he did. A deeply lovely human being - I cherish the times we spent together.
JK2006 wrote: Part of his charm on stage was that he wasn't very good but he knew it and didn't care. Which was why everybody loved him. But his honesty and sweetness came through in everything he did. A deeply lovely human being - I cherish the times we spent together.
You have nailed it JK. I never Ozzy live, it was impossible to get tickets or gigs were cancelled. It was not meant to be.
Ozzy couldn't dance he used to throw peace signs like Ringo Starr on stage, his voice suited Sabbath to a tea. However I do think he exploited due to his drugs use. Ozzy was very witty but the average Joe would have not seen that.
I hope he sees his good friend Randy Rhodes in the afterlife.
I just hope record shops won't jack up the prices of his record's.
Black Sabbath wrote some original pioneering great music.
Music Iommi and lyrics Butler.
Then there was Ozzy.
I personally was no fan of his voice or solo stuff; but he was so enthusiastic on stage. Nice to hear JK that the sweet soul he seemed in interviews etc reflected the real man.
I remember noticing at Ozzy gigs that the kids who at every other concert raised their arms upright in the air, for Ozzy reached out towards him as he bumbled around on stage. And during my many meals and meetings with him and Sharon I found them both genuinely warm and lovely human beings.
Wyot wrote: Black Sabbath wrote some original pioneering great music.
Music Iommi and lyrics Butler.
Then there was Ozzy.
I personally was no fan of his voice or solo stuff; but he was so enthusiastic on stage. Nice to hear JK that the sweet soul he seemed in interviews etc reflected the real man.
The first time I noticed Ozzy Osbourne was with his first sizable hit single Bark At The Moon in late 1983 as a 14 year old, maybe like many people my age. It's a great humorous video too, like many videos at that time they were sometimes as memorable as the songs. A few months later came So Tired in summer 1984 which I rather liked too. I've just listened and watched both for the first time in many years. But the only single I have ever bought of his was his father/daughter duet Changes, a pre-Christmas 2003 No1 which now sounds poignant and I always found surprisingly deeply moving.
Last night I was told a very well known singer around for decades had passed and tried to guess before they told me who it was, I ran off Cliff first, then Rod, Elton, and Jagger before being told Ozzy, which shocked me considering only last week I was reading about his triumphant farewell gig.
One thing I love about people such as Ozzy Osbourne, and Alice Cooper too, and even John Lydon, is that behind this big flamboyant and sometimes fierce image they cultivate they are just decent solid good people in the end underneath it all, and that makes them even greater still in my view.
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