r/OzzyOsbourne

source: https://consequence.net/list/the-100-best-vocalists-of-all-time/brandy/

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IT trainer Sue Williams, from Eccleshall in Staffordshire, managed to arrange the meeting in 1983 while the Black Sabbath frontman, who died on Tuesday aged 76, was living in the area.

It came after she noticed one of her students, Don, was "really, really sad" and, while talking to him, she learned one of his ambitions was to meet Osbourne.

Mrs Williams told BBC Radio Stoke she knew the previous owner of Osbourne's house so tried the number she still had for the address and got through to his roadie.

On the day of the visit, Mrs Williams said she and Don were sitting in her lounge when they saw two people walking up the drive – one was Osbourne, wearing a purple jumpsuit and at the time he had short blonde hair.

"He was absolutely brilliant," she said. "He brought Don gifts, he took the t-shirt off his back and gave it to him and he took photographs with him.

"He was just an absolute delight."

She said Osbourne stayed for two to three hours, during which he urged Don never to take drugs and asked if there was any scotch when he was offered tea or coffee.

"That was the end of that bottle of scotch," she added.

Mrs Williams said they had a "wonderful" afternoon with him and described Osbourne as a "perfect, perfect gentleman".

"Don was beside himself with happiness, he couldn't believe it," she added.

"I met him in town about 15 years ago and he said straight away 'remember that day with Ozzy?' It absolutely made his life."

After the visit, Mrs Williams said they would often see Osbourne at The Old Brown Jug pub in Bishops Offley.

She said he always came across as an "ordinary" person and they would regularly buy each other rounds.

"He was totally normal and so kind and compassionate," she added. "An absolutely lovely man."

Source: BBC

Yes, Ozzy, you are.

"After we recorded (Venus Doom), we went to LA to mix it where I tried to detox myself, but ended up retoxing and having to go to rehab. I got better for a moment, then went out with Kerry King and everything got worse. So blame Slayer.

When I went to rehab, they forced me to do the serenity prayer with a bunch of people. I didn’t want to say, ‘God, grant me the serenity.’ So I told them I’d say, ‘Ozzy grant me the serenity…’ and it took a while but they actually liked it.

Religion always rang hollow to me, but Ozzy always rang true. " (с) VV

from here

Ozzy as a Woman is Comedy gold. What is Your favorite picture of Ozzy in Drag?

What are your memories of meeting Ozzy?

“I first met him at the Randy Rhoads tribute show when I got to give him a high five and a quick hug. On the tour-tour, I would go hang out with him and sit in his dressing room. I wanted to be in that dude’s shadow so much. He’s a hero – he’s everybody’s hero! I just wanted to be near him and I’d even go out and sing soundcheck with the band. Ozzy is a funny dude, though. It was a dry tour because he needed to stay sober, so we were drinking a shit-tonne of beer on the down-low, worried that we’d get kicked off the tour for such behaviour. But then Ozzy sent two cases of beer to our room! We thought it was a trick, but he was happy so long as we kept it back in the rooms. We were so excited when we got off-stage because we were inside our dream matrix – I grew up with posters on the wall of Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hedrix and Black Sabbath, those guys were my heroes and father figures and suddenly there we were in those posters!"

What did you get up to backstage?

“We’d come offstage so excited because a crowd kicked ass, and there’d be this knocking at the door – ‘kah-kah-KAH!’ Every time it was, ‘Uh-oh, it’s him again’, and there he’d be, Ozzy Osbourne in his stage clothes and black eyeliner, like, ‘Let me in!’ And we were like, ‘No!’ because he loved to come in and drop these little glass vials with really pungent, disgusting stink bombs and then run out cackling while we had to stay there all night! We hated it, but come on… we loved it. We really connected with them all on that tour though, Sharon and the kids – there’s actually a video of me and Jack in one of our dressing rooms.”

How did you react when you heard you were going on tour with Ozzy and Motörhead?

“I remember distinctly being told we were up for the Ozzy tour and wanting it more than anything else I’d ever wanted in my life. Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead… Ugly Kid Joe? When we got it, we jumped up and down like those people you see in awards shows, in some shitty hotel in Houston or whatever. We were living in a motorhome at that point! All of a sudden, we were hearing through the grapevine that we could get a tour bus. We’d seen one from outside but never been in, so we walked in and it was like, ‘No fucking way’ – these 23-year-olds on tour with Ozzy Osbourne.”

What do you think of the No More Tears record?

“Do you ever get those smells that just take you back to a certain place and time? Coffee, or pancakes, or anything like that… I believe music is just like that. If I put on Diary of a Madman or Highway To Hell or Electric Lady Land, I’m so invested in those albums that I am 14 again whenever I hear them. No More Tears is a cool album; I mean come on, Lemmy wrote the lyrics to songs like Mama I’m Coming Home and Hellraiser! But it also reminds me of the greatest time in my life and being with Duffy - one of the biggest loves of my life. It was an incredibly freeing time.”

Are there any shows that stand out to you as being particularly important?

“The first show. It became this weird thing where I became Zakk [Wylde]’s beer-tech. This young, handsome shredding badass and I basically wanted to be in the Ozzy band so much I was in the shadows whenever he played! We were drinking beers together and I agreed that during the first quarter of a show I’d put beers near to where he played so he’d always have a drink. We were on tour with Motorhead too – both Lemmy and Ozzy took me under their wing and just that, as a kid it was like ‘what am I involved in?’ I love those bands so much to this day that I was never scared to be near them.”

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I designed this tartan with a lot of Ozzy/heavy metal influence behind it. Dark charcoal, black, scarlet red, dramatic contrast… that whole darker stage-energy direction.

Then I posted it in a kilt group this week and the comments immediately turned into:
“Darth Maul tartan”
“Sith colors”
“lightsaber red”
“just in time for Maul”

Now with the new Maul: Shadow Lord stuff dropping, I honestly can’t unsee it either 😂

So now I’m curious… if Star Wars actually had tartans tied to characters or factions, what would they look like?