Notable Obituaries.

What a legend!

One of my all time top songs:

All aboard ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Let's go
I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words, yeah
Heirs of a cold war
That's what we've become
Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I'm living with something' that just isn't fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

 
He turned up at the house of Tony Iommi, an aspiring guitarist of a band called 'Earth', who were looking for a vocalist. Tone wondered what the hell he was letting himself in for as Ozzy wore his shoes on a piece of string around his neck, a battered old Army greatcoat and tatty jeans more Swiss cheese than denim. But when he began to sing the band knew their search was over.

First time i saw Sabbath was in January '81 at Bingley Hall when RJD had taken his place for the Heaven and Hell tour - awesome gig - and didn't rate his solo album, Blizzard of Oz, much at all. Then came Diary of a Madman and the old Magick was back in spades. You had to be there to really see what made Ozzy special. Like all great rock frontmen he was crazy and astonishing energy, fuelled by coke and industrial quantities of booze, doubtless, but to see him perform live was a rush you couldn't get from just hearing the music in a club.

His missus, Sharon, is credited with getting him back on his feet but Ozzy himself knew the debt he owed to Randy Rhoades guitar. A real tragedy when he died in a plane crash in '82. Ozzy could've gone on with that band to greater heights instead of becoming a parody as 'The Prince of Darkness'; an ironic title he never too seriously.

Occasionally he'd pop up with a tune or two, notably his 1991 album 'No more Tears' but the best of his catalogue is unquestionably the first five Sabbath albums: between 1970-75 they were as good as Led Zep and Deep Purple...so i prefer to remember him center stage in his heyday doing what he did best.

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