OZZY!!

HipKat

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I appreciate all the Ozzy posts and tributes I've seen all over Social media today. Ozzy was my connection to music. To Rock n' Roll. To metal.

I was a Sabbath fan in High School, and Ozzy was just their singer, but when Blizzard came out, I had to have the album. I listen to it constantly. It was so... different than what was on the radio and what was Sabbath.

Then I got a picture disk with Mr. Crowley on it. I played that damn record - I know, I know - over and over and over, singing out loud so my whole neighborhood could hear it. I didn't know squat about singing.

I remember when I went back to the Army after 30 days leave. I walked into the barracks and screamed at the top of my lungs, "The MADMAN is BACK!!!"

When I tried out for VOA, no one knew what to play, so I grabbed the mic and sang the bridge from NIB, and the room stopped. Kirk, who became my best friend - that I haven't talked to in 20 years, walked in and in his Kirk-way, "Huh, sounds just like Ozzy!"

That stuck with me for years. I saw him many times. Alone with Metallica, on Ozzfest twice, with Sabbath 4 times, and a few other tours in between. In awe, every time. I loved Ozzy like millions of people did. He was my alter-ego.

Back to The Begining was magic to me! I even paid to stream it - and get the T-shirt. Glad I did!

I see a lot of new-age Ozzy fans dropping Mama I'm Coming Home and other recent songs, but this song, this was Ozzy. This was the definition of Ozzy - by Ozzy! Not some radio-friendly hit.

 
I was never into the dark brooding sounds of heavy metal. But I see B S is credited with being the trail blazer of the genre.
 
Wasn’t ozzy only with Black Sabbath for 4 albums?
They did nine albums with Ozzy
  1. Black Sabbath (1970)
  2. Paranoid (1970)
  3. Master of Reality (1971)
  4. Vol. 4 (1972)
  5. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
  6. Sabotage (1975)
  7. Technical Ecstasy (1976)
  8. Never Say Die! (1978)
  1. 13 (2013)
    —The final Sabbath studio album, marking Ozzy’s return after 35 years.
 
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