Ozzy osbourne biography reviews

  • Ozzy Osbourne's life, from his childhood in poverty and time in prison to fronting legendary heavy metal band Black Sabbath and successful solo career, to becoming one of rock's elder statesmen and a loveable 21st-century television dad.
  • This autobiography is laugh out loud funny at times, but also very sad.
  • Anything left for an autobiography?

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    Book Review: I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne and Chris Ayres

    I Am Ozzy is the most honest rock star biography I have ever read.

    When I mentioned that I was going to review this book, some people commented, “Ozzy Osbourne can write?!!”

    Well, technically, Ozzy is dyslexic, so he dictated the book to Chris Ayres. But he certainly can remember and share.

    From his extremely rough childhood to his days as a teen working in a slaughterhouse to finding Black Sabbath and fame, through his brilliant solo career masterfully held together by his wife Sharon, to his infamous excesses, it’s all here. (And yes, he did bite the head off a bat, but he didn’t realize it was real until afterward, and he had to take a series of rabies shots as penance.)

    Ozzy sugarcoats nothing. Some of his story is tragic, like the bizarre death of Randy Rhodes in the strangest plane crash ever. Some of it, in retrospect is screamingly funny, like the time Ozzy got arrested for accidentally urinating on the Alamo.

    All of it is amazing. That he did all this, including extreme drug and alcohol abuse for 40 years, and is still alive, in better shape than ever, and still performing is nothing short of a miracle.

    Ozzy Osbourne is a funny guy and an incredible storyteller. He survived

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    I Am Ozzy

    January 27, 2019
    There are many things to like about this book. However, if you don’t like Ozzy, you won’t find them, at all. This book reads as though you were listening to him in person. His British accent permeates the pages that are full of pisses, fucks and bollocks, a testament to Chris Ayres—helping-hand author of this book—ability to edit himself out of the writing. In many respects this is a very honest book, that more than once leaves you wondering how is Ozzy still alive (old school rockers do seem to be made of stern stuff, ‘cause the amounts of drugs and alcohol filling this book are more serious than a bad car crash).

    The good thing is that if you do find Ozzy’s ways funny or at least tolerable, you’ll have a good time reading this bio that it’s exactly what I was expecting when I got it: a wild ride through the even wilder side of The Prince of Darkness a.k.a THE bad boy of Heavy Metal (and if not THE at least The Original one).

    The slaughterhouse labor, the prison term, the dyslexia, the guns, the blackouts, the Randy Rhoads airplane crash, the eating pigeons’ heads, the tremor, the mumbling, the bike accident, the many brushes with death —they're all here. But the best part —at least for me— is that accompanying all those scary, funny and extreme

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    The Wit jaunt Wisdom accuse Ozzy Osbourne

    December 18, 2013
    Ensinnäkin Ozzystä kertova kirja allocation aivan kökkö. Toisekseen suomennos ”Ozzy Osbourne. Omin silmin” alkuperäisestä ”The Wit meticulous Wit disregard Ozzy Osbourne” on surkea niin kuin leffakäännöksetkin useimmiten.

    Kirjan alkuperäinen nimi johtaa lukijan pahasti harhaan. Jokaisen kolmentoista luvun loppuun - kadai oikeastaan pääsisältönä - expulsion lisätty lähinnä kokapilvessä ja kännissä heitettyjä letkautuksia, jotka eivät yllä edes nykäsmatin tasolle. Suurin osa mukamas Ozzyn lainauksista löytyy Wikisitaateista. Missään vaiheessa lukijalle ei tule käsitystä, että tekijä olisi haastatellut kirjansa kohdetta saati edes nähnyt tätä. Kuvituskin corrupt suurimmaksi osaksi entuudestaan tuttua levy-yhtiöiden kamaa.

    Niin kuin bändi- ja artistihistoriikeissa on tapana, viitataan lyhyesti myös lapsuuteen ja nuoruuteen. Lukija talutetaan pikaisesti birminghamilaiseen lähiöön ja duunariperheeseen. Kavereina olikin Man Butler, Iommi ja kumppanit. Bändin nimi Black Sabbath on peräisin Mario Bavan leffasta 1963, mutta entistä Earth-nimeä ei selitetä mitenkään - eikä myöskään mitään muutakaan biisien syntymisestä niiden merkityksestä kadai historiasta. Ainoastaan Paranoidista sanotaan parilla virkkeellä, että ”joku” tuottaja pyysi kundeja jammailemaan muutaman