Born in Birmingham England, after leaving school and having many odd jobs he ended up in a band with Geezer Butler. This group then split leading Ozzy and Geezer to join Tony Iommi and Bill Ward in a new band that went under several names (including Earth) that ended up being called Black Sabbath after a song of the same name that appeared on their first album (released 1969/70)...See full bio »
2002Spun
(performer: "Flying High Again", "Junkie" / "Junkie" / "Flying High Again" / as Osbourne John)
2002Ozzy Osbourne: Live at Budokan
(video documentary)
(writer: "I Don't Know", "That I Never Had", "Believer", "Junkie", "Mr. Crowley", "Gets Me Through", "Suicide Solution", "No More Tears", "I Don't Want to Change the World", "Road to Nowhere", "Crazy Train", "Mama, I'm Coming Home", "Bark at the Moon", "Paranoid")
2000Little Nicky
(writer: "Flying High Again", "No More Tears", "Mama, I'm Coming Home" / performer: "Flying High Again", "No More Tears", "Mama, I'm Coming Home")
2000Almost Famous
(writer: "Paranoid", "Sweet Leaf" / as John Osbourne)
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.
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Trivia:
Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame for their outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture. (16 November 2005).
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