Music Osbourne: Remember the singer’s controversies

Heavy Metal legend and one of the most important names in music, Ozzy Osbourne He died on Tuesday, 22, at 76. The news happens just a few weeks after the farewell show Back to the beginningwhich marked the last act of Prince of Darkness on stage with the Black Sabbath. Owner of a career with successes as famous as the controversy, remember some striking stories of the artist.

Bite in Bat

It is impossible to talk about the trajectory of Ozzy Without returning to January 20, 1982 at DES Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium, in the United States, where Osbourne He ripped his head from a living bat during a show.

Osbourne He had been on the road for over a year when he arrived at the scene. During this time, he developed a ritual in which he played raw meat in the audience and they played back something insane they could bring to the places of the performances. As the singer explained in the documentary The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne (2020):

I always liked old movies that used to have these cream pie fights. This gave me the idea of playing, instead of pie, pieces of meat and parts of animals in the audience. I found hilarious. [Eles jogavam de volta] Sheep testicles, living snakes, dead mice, all kinds of things. Someone once threw a live frog on the stage. It was the biggest frog I had ever seen and fell on my back.

That night in Des Moines, someone threw a living bat. “I thought it was a rubber bat,” he said Osbourne. “I took it, put it in my mouth, chewed, bit, being the clown I am.” As the blood filled his mouth and people in the crowd looked at horror, he realized that he had made a horrible mistake. “Bats are the biggest bearers of anger in the world. I had to go to the hospital later and started giving me injections against anger. I got one in every ass and had to take one every night.”

Square Competition

As if the Bite on the Bat was not enough, the list of follies of Ozzy There is another unforgettable chapter. This time, the artist drew attention for inhaling ants and drinking urine from the floor.

The bizarre was remembered by Tommy Leedrummer of Mötley Crüeduring a participation in the podcast This Past Weekend With Theo Von (via NME).

I know people ask this all the time. They are like, ‘seriously?’. And I say, ‘Absolutely, p*rra’. You can’t invent such a shit. ”

According to the story, Osbourne and Nikki Sixxalso from Mötley Crüethey made a disgusting competition behind the scenes of a 1984 show. All watered with many drugs.

At that time it was common, everyone was trying to be more rockstar and more disgusting than the others. So Ozzy was completely drunk. He saw a small trail of ants going to the popsicle of a boy who had fallen to the floor. And Ozzy just smelled the line of ants going to the popsicle. ”

According to Leethe idea was not disgusting enough to win Nikki Sixx.

Nikki said ‘f*if that’. He peed on the floor and would lick his own urine to overcome Ozzy. But before Nikki could do that, Ozzy licked his urine. And we get, like, ‘Okay, Ozzy. You won. You won, man. ‘”

Shoes

Another controversy of the list of Ozzy was told by the artist’s wife, Sharon Osbourne. She remembered the couple’s stay in English hotels, where guests were common to leave their shoes out of the room. What did the musician do? Defended on the shoes. “Once he did at the bar of a hotel, and when the security guard came to confront it, he said it was okay, as we were staying there,” he recalled.

Betrayal

Speaking of Sharonthe musician’s companion has already been betrayed by Ozzy. And you know all the details. On a trip to Japan, Ozzy He met a fan and had the boldness to take her to the hotel room with his wife sleeping in bed. The musician’s involvement with other women shook the marriage, which faced a temporary separation in 2016. But beyond love, the singer made a point of emphasizing that he repented of his own behavior.

“I’ve done very outrageous things in life. I’m sorry I betrayed my wife. I don’t do that anymore. I realize it real and I’m lucky that she didn’t leave me. I’m not proud of it. I was p *** with myself. But I broke her heart,” People.

Dove bite

Biting animals? It is with himself. Before the Bat episode, Ozzy He got involved with a dove. In 1981, he was in Germany, in a convention with the label’s entrepreneurs Epic Records. The businesswoman and future wife were trying the executives that Ozzy It should be taken seriously. Bored and, of course, after drinking an entire bottle of whiskey, Ozzy He took two pigeons used for a presentation and ripped their heads with a bite.

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