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ALBUMCrack Cocaine - SingleBilly Morrison, Ozzy Osbourne & Steve Stevens
Albums by Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMPatient Number 9Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMOrdinary ManOzzy Osbourne
ALBUMScream (Expanded Edition)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMBlack Rain (Bonus Track Version)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMDown to Earth (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMOzzmosis (Bonus Track Version)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMNo More Tears (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMNo Rest for the Wicked (Bonus Track Version)Ozzy Osbourne
ALBUMThe Ultimate SinOzzy Osbourne
ALBUMBark at the Moon (Bonus Track Version)Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne's Popular Music Videos
Under the Graveyard
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It's A Raid (feat. Post Malone)
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Crazy Train
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Paranoid (Live at Live Aid, John F. Kennedy Stadium, 13th July 1985)
Black Sabbath
Hellraiser (30th Anniversary Edition - Animated Video)
Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister & Motörhead
Ordinary Man (feat. Elton John)
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Straight to Hell
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Shock the Monkey (feat. Ozzy Osbourne)
Coal Chamber
Patient Number 9 (feat. Jeff Beck)
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Mama, I'm Coming Home
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Artist Playlists
Ozzy Osbourne Essentials
You can call him the Madman, the Great Ozz, or the Prince of bloody Darkness.
Ozzy Osbourne: The Zane Lowe Interview
Zane sits down with Ozzy, Sharon, and producer Andrew Watt for a far-reaching interview.
Ozzy Osbourne Video Essentials
Ozzy Osbourne: Live
His stage act earned him the nickname “the Madman.”
Inspired by Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne: The Ordinary Man Interview
Ozzy tells Zane Lowe about the making of his first solo album in 10 years.
Artist Biography
Before Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath, metal was just a building material. One of six children born to a family of factory workers in postwar Birmingham, England, Osbourne would come to define the persona of the heavy-metal frontman, blurring the line between dramatic flair and what at times seemed like genuine madness. Bleak, primitive, and relentlessly loud, his music—both with Black Sabbath and in his solo career—provided stark counterpoints to the airy excesses of '60s and '70s rock, marked by haymakers like “Paranoid,” “Crazy Train,” “Sweet Leaf,” and “Supernaut.” And though he's known for his screeching, almost acidic voice, Osbourne was surprisingly handy with ballads too—just revisit Sabbath’s disarming “Changes” or 1991’s “Mama I’m Coming Home.” A natural provocateur, Osbourne went on to play avatar for parents’ nightmares worldwide; he was singled out during both the satanic panic of the mid-’80s and the 1985 Senate hearing that led to the RIAA’s adoption of the now-infamous “parental advisory” stickers. His star continued to grow throughout the ’90s, first as the namesake of the hugely successful Ozzfest (hatched by his wife and manager, Sharon), then—and maybe most implausibly—as the affable, befuddled dad of reality TV’s The Osbournes. Still, Osbourne retains the image of a survivor—the poor-boy-made-good—and his sense of humor has ripened over time. “I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training,” he wrote in his autobiography, I Am Ozzy. “They just are.”
Hometown
Birmingham, England
Genre
Metal