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Ozzy Osbourne turned 70 yesterday. Love him or hate him, you gotta love him. Or hate him. I love him. I liked him when all I knew were the songs from Paranoid. I loved him the first time I head the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album. His voice was prime then, his lyrical vocal lines (the melodies of which he created, though most of the lyrics were penned by the bassist, Geezer Butler) were a joy to hear, especially in contrast with the plodding, heavy chords of Iommi.



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Why would anybody not like him? He's cool. I think he's awesome and I don't even like heavy metal. Go Ozzy.
 
Ozzy is the white version of James Brown in that most white people can't understand what the fuck he's saying when he speaks.

Also, he had a large influence on the creation of heavy metal as he was in one of the proto-metal bands that led to the creation of heavy metal, so you can kind of call him a godfather of metal in the way that Brown is the godfather of soul.

For reasons that aren't quite clear to me, after leaving Black Sabbath, he attracted some of the best guitarists in heavy metal.
 
Underseer said:
Ozzy is the white version of James Brown in that most white people can't understand what the fuck he's saying when he speaks.

Also, he had a large influence on the creation of heavy metal as he was in one of the proto-metal bands that led to the creation of heavy metal, so you can kind of call him a godfather of metal in the way that Brown is the godfather of soul.
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Surely you mean Iommi and Butler? Everybody knows that Ozzy was just the singer. While a good singer, he just did what he was told. Until he couldn't even do that, and was fired.

Underseer said:
For reasons that aren't quite clear to me, after leaving Black Sabbath, he attracted some of the best guitarists in heavy metal.
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Leaving? He was kicked out wasn't he? Not that strange. He was the front man of an extremely successful heavy metal band. And since people are idiots and confuse attention with talent, he of course attracted the best.
 
"I LOVE YOU ALLL!"

I saw him perform a couple of times, that's what I most remember he liked to say. I believe he meant it. :love_heart:

I try to wipe The Osbournes from my memory by listening to something like this.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZ4t7pRyjE[/YOUTUBE]


Yeahh, it holds up.
 
Very unique vocals from Ozzy, Chris Squire-esque.

No More Tears is probably one of the best songs from the 80s.
 
DrZoidberg said:
Why would anybody not like him? He's cool. I think he's awesome and I don't even like heavy metal. Go Ozzy.
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I don't care for his music but Ozzy is a funny and entertaining character. He's often funny while not even trying to be funny. A few years ago he had a run in with Kevin and Bean on KROQ after they did a parody song about his daughter. Ozzy (and Sharon) wnet mental and called in to the show. They were on the air and Ozzy was going to do some serious damage to Kevin and Bean. The song was never played again.
 
I heard it said by his wife he has been studied by doctors, they want to figure out how he survived a life of self abuse.
 
I have such a fondness for Old Sabbath and Ozzy. I wore out the grooves on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath when I was a kid... and Master of Reality... and Paranoid. God, such great music.

People talk so much about how great Led Zeppelin was, but Sabbath was better. They were more varied, had more material, and to me, seemed deeper than Zep ever was.

Anyway, yeah, Ozzy's 70. Unreal. Is this how the previous generation felt about Sinatra when he turned 70? I remember telling my mom that once--that Ozzy was like our version of Sinatra.
 
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Underseer said:
Ozzy is the white version of James Brown in that most white people can't understand what the fuck he's saying when he speaks.

Also, he had a large influence on the creation of heavy metal as he was in one of the proto-metal bands that led to the creation of heavy metal, so you can kind of call him a godfather of metal in the way that Brown is the godfather of soul.
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Surely you mean Iommi and Butler? Everybody knows that Ozzy was just the singer. While a good singer, he just did what he was told. Until he couldn't even do that, and was fired.

Underseer said:
For reasons that aren't quite clear to me, after leaving Black Sabbath, he attracted some of the best guitarists in heavy metal.
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Leaving? He was kicked out wasn't he? Not that strange. He was the front man of an extremely successful heavy metal band. And since people are idiots and confuse attention with talent, he of course attracted the best.
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This was my impression as well. Ozzy was a great front man, but not exactly the driving musical force behind any of it. Didn't write the music, didn't write the lyrics, but drew attention to himself because of his antics and somehow managed to hire great talent and kept his career going.
 
Black Sabbath is where many a budding garage/basement bands would practice their musical talents. Want to get your first complete song down? War Pigs was it.
Ozzy Osborne’s Blizzard of Ozz was not that. This album came out of the blue for us in high school and Randy Rhoad’s guitar was phenomenal. I remember listening to it for the first time over a friend’s house. No one had any knowledge of it until the needle was put down. Killer album.
I was lucky enough to see them on the Blizzard of Ozz tour.
 
Ford said:
Ozzy was a great front man, but not exactly the driving musical force behind any of it. Didn't write the music, didn't write the lyrics, but drew attention to himself because of his antics and somehow managed to hire great talent and kept his career going.
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Very true.

The quality of Ozzy's music always depended on who he had around him. Sabbath made great music, and once Ozzy left, they continued to make great music with Ronnie James Diorites, and even with Ian Gillan on the Born Again album. Blizzard and Diary were great albums because Randy Rhoades and Bob Daisley (and Lee Kerslake) contributed so much to them. With Zach Wylde co-writing, Ozzy made some more great music. And when you listen to a lot of Black Label Society, it's obvious why Ozzy parted ways with Zach Wylde. He was saving his best stuff for his own band. BLS was just a better version of Ozzy by then.

I do think though, that he did write more lyrics than you seem to be giving him credit for. It's true that Geezer Butler wrote most of Sabbath's lyrics, but Ozzy wrote a lot for Blizzard and Diary.
 
I read some years back that it was Ozy's wife, Sharon, that got him together with Randy Rhoads.
 
On reaching his 70th birthday Ozzie was heard to say " I don't mufelop bruge trepin. The most garvy plood time hummina grick life."
 
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Underseer said:
Ozzy is the white version of James Brown in that most white people can't understand what the fuck he's saying when he speaks.
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He's from Birmingham. Most people who aren't from the Black Country can't understand what any of the Brummies say when they speak.

It's the language of Shakespeare - quite literally. The rest of the English speaking world has moved on, but Ozzy's accent was 400 years out of date, even before he fried his brain with drugs and alcohol.
 
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bilby said:
Underseer said:
Ozzy is the white version of James Brown in that most white people can't understand what the fuck he's saying when he speaks.
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He's from Birmingham. Most people who aren't from the Black Country can't understand what any of the Brummies say when they speak.

It's the language of Shakespeare - quite literally. The rest of the English speaking world has moved on, but Ozzy's accent was 400 years out of date, even before he fried his brain with drugs and alcohol.
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gho brummiez! Shelphim alot bawl is a cawkin in a lell bit, turfin ill a lommie grom ill it'll a sick pup!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brummie_dialect
 
Which is why it is so amazing that Ozzy could sing so clearly. Admit it, if you listen to early Sabbath, his pronunciation of King's English is usually spot on.
 
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