1968 ==== In a small German club, a band by the name of "Earth" is
up on the stage. The audience is ignoring the band as audiences typically do.
The lead singer, Ozzy, decides to get their attention. He goes back to the
dressing room, unnoticed by the audience. Backstage, he coats his hands, face
and feet with purple paint. He returns to the stage and then screams at the
audience. The audience remains oblivious to this purple man screaming at them.
The band resigns themselves to the fact that the audience is just not going to
pay them any attention. 1998 ==== Ask someone if they have heard of Celine Dion
or Tom Cochrane, and even if their answer is no, they have most likely heard
about Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath. Since his debut in the late 60's as a
blues/rock singer, this man has had a world wide impact on the music scene. You
may think of him as a drugged out lunatic who sacrifices animals and eats dead
frogs for supper while worshiping Satan with dead bodies around him. This is of
course complete and utter nonsense... I have never heard of him using more than
one dead body. :) The most common stories are the beheading of the bat, wasn't
there something about a dove?, and what was that about the Alamo? From his
childhood right on up to his current Ozzmosis album, this file will attempt to
explain it all. At the age of 50, this man still has the mind, and at times, the
body of a 22 year old. His records still continue to sell and make it to the
charts, his concerts sell out within minutes, all this despite his never having
followed any given 'trend' as a lot of music groups try to do today. When Alanis
Morissette is 48, do you think she will still have sell out concerts? "When
I left school I wanted to become a plumber. When I heard the Beatles I wanted to
become a Beatle" ...Ozzy
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