John Michael Osbourne (born December 3, 1948), better known as Ozzy Osbourne, is the lead singer of the tremendously popular rock band Black Sabbath.
He was born in Aston, a suburb of Birmingham in England.
Osbourne left the group in 1979, at the height of Black Sabbath’s popularity, to pursue a solo career. Throughout the 1980s, he continued to cultivate the image of the angry rebel. He showered his audiences with raw meat, was arrested for urinating on the Alamo, bit the head off of a dove during a business meeting, and bit the head off of a live bat on stage.
In the 1990s, Osbourne continued to release albums and tour with his traveling metal festival, Ozzfest, but his career was clearly diminishing - he also continued to struggle with drug and alcohol abuse, which had followed him for years on end.
Osbourne returned to 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, Kelly Osbourne and Aimee), has turned into one of MTV's greatest hits.
Solo discography
- Blizzard Of Ozz - 1980
- Diary of a Madman - 1981
- Talk of the Devil - 1982
- Bark at the Moon - 1983
- The Ultimate Sin - 1986
- Tribute - 1987
- No Rest for the Wicked - 1989
- Just Say Ozzy - 1990
- No More Tears - 1991
- Live and Loud - 1993
- Ozzmosis - 1995
- Down To Earth - 2001