Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne (2020) - full transcript

I think there's a wild man
in everybody.

I'm a split personality.

♪♪

Ozzy Osbourne and John Osbourne
is two different people.

John Osbourne
is talking to you now,

but if you wanna be
Ozzy Osbourne,

you know, he's like,
takes over.

When I was a kid,
I was afraid of everything.

It was just like, you just
crawl into your fear hole.

You know, you don't need to cry
for the bully,

and so when you do find a bit
of booze or dope or [bleep]



or whatever, you go [bleep],
I found it.

I mean, I could never
get there again.

Alcohol and dope and... and I've
been a class clown anyway,

so it sums it all up, you know.

[drum beating]

I use the talents of making
people feel somewhat entertained

when I was goofing around.

To take it onstage
with my music,

I suppose it's the same kind
of a thing.

[audience cheering]

I don't know what music
would be like

if it weren't for
the influence of Ozzy.

Ozzy changed everything.

Well, I mean, you can't
say anyone's immortal,



but I think that Ozzy
in that time was, um...

I think Ozzy's music
is timeless.

It makes me cry
and gives me the chills.

It's just perfect.

Dad is a kid from the streets
who... worked in factories.

He's very much this
working class blue collar guy.

The working class thing
is key

because you grew up
with nothing,

and you do everything you can
every day

so you don't go back
to nothing.

It's all about escaping your
reality to something better.

He left one of the biggest
rock bands in the world

and became bigger,
a credible artist on his own,

finding great new talent,

and then made it huge on TV.

Nobody had done that.

He is
the most irresistible madman

you will ever meet in your life.

He is the real Iron Man.

The reason why I do what I do
is because it's what

everybody wants to do, but they
ain't got the guts to.

And all I am is honest.

- Roll.
- Camera.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I'm Ozzy Osbourne,

the [bleep]
Prince of Darkness.

O-Okay?

All right. That's cool.

♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

["Iron Man" playing]

♪ Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪♪

♪ He was turned to steel ♪

There ain't many people who have
such a longevity as I have.

♪ Where he traveled time ♪

I feel honored that people
still wanna see me, you know?

♪ Nobody helps him ♪

♪ Now he has his revenge ♪

When you feel
that audience jumping,

it's like a better feeling
than an orgasm.

The party's on, man.

♪♪

Thank you.
God bless you all, man.

[cheers and applause]

[beep]

My father always said
I'd do something big one day.

He says to me, "You're either
gonna do something very special

or you're gonna go to prison."
He was right, you know?

♪♪

I had a dream, and it came true.

I mean, I live a good life.

[film projector whirring]

My name is
John Michael Osbourne.

Not many people call me "John."

It's either "Oz" or "Ozzy."

I think if I walked down
the street now

and somebody went, "John!"
I wouldn't stop.

Although I am John.

I leave Ozzy onstage.
I'll come off as John.

♪♪

I was born
in Birmingham, England, 1948.

The only thing that was
around then was factories.

A lot of Birmingham was bombed
during the second World War.

Actually, the place to play
was called "the bomb site."

That was where you played,
not realizing that it was

a place that had been bombed
during World War II.

You know,
imagination would run wild.

♪♪

Oh, it's changed a lot.

It's changed an awful lot
since I lived here.

- Wow.
- The bedroom I had back then

was no bigger than
two single beds side by side.

I lived in here for a while,
and, uh, yeah.

There was no inside toilets.

It was a bucket to pee in
at the end of the bed.

We had an outside toilet
where you go to go for a dump.

You... You didn't have
toilet paper.

You had newspaper.

You didn't have soap or water,
which was a big stigma for me.

I had a lot of shame
when I was a kid,

because I always felt dirty.
I always felt unclean.

I felt like a peasant, you know?

♪♪

There were six kids.

My three older sisters
were Jean, Iris, and Gillian.

I also had two younger brothers,
Paul and Tony.

My father was a toolmaker.

He never would miss a day
from work.

Come rain, come shine,

if he was sick,
and... and I wanna be like that.

I loved him.

When my dad came home after
working all night in a factory,

my mother Lilian would start
her shift.

[whirring]

I was petrified most of the time

because I was
a very nervous guy.

Fear of impending doom
ruled my life.

I convinced myself
if I stepped on cracks,

something really bad would
happen when I got home,

like my mother would be dead
or something like that.

- [snoring]
- When my dad was sleeping

through the day,

I would be freaking out
thinking he was dead.

I'd have to poke him
to make sure

he was still breathing.
I can tell you,

he wasn't too pleased
about that.

Where did you guys spend
most of your time?

In the street 'cause it was
too crowded in the house.

He didn't have
a very happy school life.

He was always penalized for...
probably because he was so slow.

I hated school.

I spent more time
smoking cigarettes

in the boys' room
than being in class.

I wasn't good at school.

Well, we didn't realize
he was dyslexic.

We just thought perhaps he was,
like, slow to learn.

There was a lot of shame
for me,

because if you had
that learning disability,

they would put you in a corner
with a cone on your head,

and they'd call you
the class dunce,

and the whole class
laughed at you,

which made me go further
into me.

♪♪

I [bleep] hated it.

♪♪

Ozzy!

- What's going on, Ozzy?!
- Hi!

All right.
I was the class clown.

I would go to the biggest guy
in the class, make him laugh,

and he would be my mate
so no one would hassle me

because I've got this big guy
with me.

Most comedians I know,
offstage,

they're very unhappy people,

and that's kind of true
to my life.

I'm making you laugh to make me
feel safe around you.

At 16, I was on the streets.

When John left school,
he sort of went

from one little job to another.

I didn't want to work
in a day job.

I couldn't stand getting up
for a job in the morning.

I could never hold
a 9-to-5 job down, ever.

I'd go from a plumber
to a builder.

One of my jobs was working
in a slaughterhouse.

I remember gagging all day.

But eventually,
you get used to the smell.

I said to this guy, "How long
have you been doing this?"

He goes,
"35 years. I'm retiring,

and they're gonna give me
a gold watch."

I remember turning to him.
I said...

I had to at least try and have
a little bit of fun

with my life while I was young.

John used to go out

and have a drink,
get in fights, and that was it.

From what I saw of John,

he was always
in and out of trouble.

You know, Dad was always
telling him off.

That's the shop
that I broke into.

That was Mrs. Clark's shop
I broke into.

Yeah, I broke into a shop
at the back of my house.

A lot of the kids
turned to crime,

and I did for a time,

but I wasn't
really good at it, you know.

I wasn't a career criminal.

I kinda wanted to get caught
in a way

to be accepted by the rest
of the bad guys in the area.

I didn't wanna go to jail,
but that's where I ended up.

When you're in a place
full of bad people,

it's a bit of an education.

One month in jail
was long enough.

I had no idea what my life
was about to explode into.

I had no idea.

I gotta go for a piss.

Let me tell you something.
After six weeks in prison

I knew I didn't wanna go back,

and I just didn't wanna work
in a factory.

The only thing I had
a passion for was music.

♪♪

Music was a very integral part
of the family.

There was always music
with the record player,

or the radio, the piano.

By the time I was about 14,

I had discovered music
from the Beatles.

♪ Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now ♪

♪ Shake it up, baby ♪

♪ Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now ♪

♪ Shake it up, baby ♪

The Fab Four,
when the Beatles happened,

it changed my life.

[song ending,
audience shrieking]

It gave me the seed
to wanna do it myself.

My dad was a good guy.
I loved him.

I talked my father into getting
me a check for 250 pounds.

I went to George Clay's
music shop in Birmingham.

He got me a Shure mic,
a stand,

and a 50-watt Vox P.A.

I thought it was
the best gift ever.

If my father hadn't bought me
that mic and P.A.,

I would definitely
not be here now.

First time I ever met Ozzy
was at school.

He was in a year younger
than me.

We all lived around
the same sort of area.

That first time I met Oz was
with Geezer and Tony as well.

We needed a singer
for the band, so, uh,

we went to this music shop
in Birmingham

where all the musicians
used to hang out,

and we saw this ad
for "Ozzy Zig requires gig."

[laughs] And, uh, the magic
words... "has his own P.A."

I said to Bill, "I know
an Ozzy, but it can't be him,

because as far as I knew,
he never sang."

Well, it wasn't that I was the
greatest singer on the earth,

but if you had an ad
which said, "I own my own P.A.,"

you got people at your door.

Myself and Tony and Geezer,
we went to his house.

I took to him straightaway.
It was his personality

and also his knowledge
of blues music.

I mean, he could really sing
really good blues.

So we all decided,
"Oh, why don't we just

form a band together
and have a go, you know?"

Then we did our first
rehearsals not soon after.

[drum beating rapid riffs]

Nobody got any sleep.
I mean, it was just...

they were crazy days.
They just like, you know,

a bunch of guys together that
are just having a lot of, uh,

a lot of fun.

Back then,
we were pretty scruffy,

and Oz was probably

the most outrageously scruffy
of everybody.

His pants were falling off him,
couldn't afford a pair of shoes.

It was fun. It beat [bleep]
going to a [bleep]

some industrial pollution
[bleep] miserable job.

At first, we just did
blues stuff, like 12-bar blues.

We just used to get together,
jam for about two hours.

Usually, magically,
this riff would appear,

and we'd just, like,
all latch onto it

and just keep jamming
until we'd finished the song.

♪♪

♪ Yeah, you get blood ♪

We used to rehearse
in a community center,

and we used to have to get there
for 9:00 in the morning,

and it was across the road
from a movie theater.

Until I remember it was Tony
who said one morning...

he said, "Isn't it peculiar
that people pay money

to go and see horror films?"

[screams]
[suspenseful music plays]

"Why don't we start writing
scary music?"

Somebody gave Ozzy
this old 16th century book

of black magic, and
he brought it round to my flat

'cause he knew
I was interested in magic

and all that kind of thing,

and I just got this
really weird vibe off it.

And that night, I just, like,
woke up suddenly,

and I just saw this black shape
at the bottom of me bed.

About three days after that,
we came up with our first song,

"Black Sabbath."

♪ What is this
that stands before me? ♪

♪♪

The song, the "Black Sabbath"
with the bells coming in,

and the... ♪ Boom, ba, boom ♪

That was just, like, the basis
of my introduction to rock.

♪♪

Black Sabbath seems to be
the first heavy metal music,

all the Metallicas and Slayers
and Soundgarden...

it all leads back
to Black Sabbath.

"Black Sabbath," the song,
we would play that song,

and people would run out
screaming.

People were [bleep]
freaked out.

♪♪

[amplified voice]
Thank you very much. Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

You know,
it took off so quickly.

It was just [bleep] great,
though.

We'd get in the van,
get on the ferry,

get pissed on the ferry.

We did a lot of gigs up north,

and we all slept
in the same caravan.

And we all relied
on each other

if we ever needed anything.

We had an absolute blast
when we made our first record,

"Black Sabbath."

Most of the record sales have
come from northwest England.

"Mum, we're on the radio!"

I couldn't believe we were
on the...

my voice was coming out
through the radio,

and the whole of England
was listening to me sing.

I couldn't believe it.

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ Some people say
my love cannot be true ♪

And the first thing I did
when I got any money

was I went out.
I got myself drunk,

bought some shoes and socks.

I bought a bottle of Brut
to smell better.

When we released "Paranoid,"

that went straight
to number one.

In the amount of three years,
we'd gone from being

a nothing band to
the number one band in England.

It was happening so quick.

♪ All day long,
I think of things ♪

♪ But nothing seems to satisfy ♪

♪ Think I'll lose my mind ♪

♪ If I don't find something
to pacify ♪

The beauty of Ozzy's range
is that he can sing in a place

where the guitars can be this
giant, grand, monstrous thing,

and he can dance on top.

♪ And so as you hear
these words ♪

♪ Telling you now of my state ♪

♪ I tell you to enjoy life ♪

♪ I wish I could,
but it's too late ♪

They're all like brothers to me.
It's all a family, you know.

I think it was about as close

as four heterosexual men
can get.

I've got three brothers at home,
and it's beyond that, even.

We like the name
"Black Sabbath," so obviously...

We just like the name,
you know?

That's all it is.
It's just a name, Black Sabbath.

Well, what do you do
to relax?

Uh...

[laughter]

You were joking
when you said that, of course.

Yeah, right.
[laughter]

♪♪

Shortly after we all became
successful with Black Sabbath,

I met Thelma in a nightclub.

Then we got married,
and we had two children...

Jessica and Louis.

♪♪

By the summer of 1972,

we were in Los Angeles
to record a new album

in honor of our newfound love
of cocaine.

You look on the back
of the album sleeve,

we said, "We'd like to thank
the great COKE-Cola company

of Los Angeles," meaning...
[whispers] Cocaine.

We did the album, "Vol. 4,"
and we'd been in Los Angeles

recording that for about
three months,

and it was the first time
that we'd all got

really heavily into cocaine.

I mean, we were doing it
every day,

like 24 hours a day,
practically.

We'd stay up for
two or three days sometimes.

In the early days,
it was absolute bedlam,

and I loved it.

Going around with him
was a total adventure.

We never knew
what was gonna happen.

[crowd cheering]

[amplified voice]
Come on! Let's have a party!

I was on the television.
I was on the radio.

And people recognized me,
and people wanted my autograph,

and chicks wanted
to [bleep] me.

It's like, wow, you know?
It's like from being

a grubby little [bleep]
to this.

This is the big time now.

♪♪

♪ Revolution in their minds ♪

♪ The children start to march ♪

♪ Against the world... ♪

I thought money would buy
everything and fix everything.

Bought a Mercedes.
This is cool, man.

But you know, money would buy
the alcohol and the drugs,

and I'd behave [bleep] badly.

I mean, the way
I treated Thelma, it was wrong.

I treated her really badly,
and the kids.

Two children.

I was just a very selfish,
self-centered [bleep]

egotistical guy. I'd [bleep]
around from day one,

and that ain't cool.

And now I've just had enough.

I'm no good at handling
loss of love.

[film projector whirring]

♪♪

The Black Sabbath band...
it was just a mess.

They've got the houses.
They've got the cars.

But the thing was, they were
all in the manager's name.

The manager ripped us off
lots of money.

They were so young at the time
and naive

and didn't understand
anything about the industry,

how all the sharks are out
to bite you.

It's very sad, 'cause these
[bleep] destroyed us.

At some point,
we fired our manager.

And once finally got
tired of that management,

we basically made all
the decisions ourselves,

which is what led the end
of the band.

They went bankrupt,
and this, of course,

caused turmoil within the band.

My dad was a legendary manager
in the industry.

In '79, when Sabbath
signed with my dad,

they were mates of mine,
Black Sabbath.

I was touring
with Electric Light Orchestra

and other bands.

We'd see 'em at an airport
or, you know,

we'd be staying
in the same hotel,

so they were many times
that I'd seen Ozzy.

♪♪

My father was very, very ill.
He was in hospital.

I had come to see him
the day before,

and he was perked up
a little bit.

I picked up the phone
when I got to his place.

He's gone. I collapsed.
I was like, [bleep],

my dad's gone.
It was really heavy.

When his dad passed away,
Oz was in absolute turmoil,

and he put himself right... right
inside the bottle, you know?

And he stayed there for a while.

When my father died,
I couldn't stand it.

I can't deal with loss.

I can't deal with losing
anything, what I love.

The most painful period
of my life.

I was [bleep] devastated.

♪♪

After his father passed away,
we tried to make another record.

We actually came
to Beverly Hills

to do some writing,

and Ozzy didn't turn up
for two weeks.

You know, I was so fed up
with it all.

The truth of the matter was,
I wasn't into Sabbath anymore.

And we all, like, had
this house rented in Bel Air,

and it's costing a lot of money,

which, you know, money that
we didn't have at the time.

And all he was interested in

was getting smashed
out of his head.

We were all [bleep] up
anyway.

Tony was staying...
he was either doing

Quaaludes and blow all day,

and they were saying that I was
out of my head all the time.

so it was kinda like the pot
calling the kettle black

in the respect that we were
all stoned, you know?

The conversations began
about the possibility

of looking at another singer.

The decision was, if we don't,
we're gonna break up.

We got a situation
that's supposed to be a band,

but yet when it came
to the firing of me,

they got Bill,
who was my best friend,

to come and do the dirty deed.

It was [bleep] horrible.
Yeah, I hated it.

You know, we'd all lived
in unison.

We'd all been
the four musketeers.

You know, so now what?

I was done. They were done
with me. I was done with them.

It was just like a divorce.

I didn't know how to...
what I was gonna do.

After I got kicked out
of Sabbath,

I stayed under a contract
with Don and Sharon,

and they put me up at a hotel
in West Hollywood.

Well, I mean, I thought
this is it, I'm [bleep],

so I better have my last fling.

I just was ordering [bleep]
booze from Gil Turner's,

coke from my coke dealer,

get a chick to come around for
a bit of the old in-out, in-out.

We would give him
a per diem every week.

He'd have spent the per diem
by Wednesday

'cause it had gone on coke,
and, you know, the usual.

Pizza boxes in the sink

and empty bottles
of vodka and gin,

and I just looked at him
and I said, "For [bleep] sake,

"this has just got to end,
'cause we'll drop you.

We'll drop you tomorrow."

♪♪

My wife wants a divorce,

my father dies,
and my band kicked me out.

That was one of
the lowest points of my life,

but my life was about to change.

♪♪

I went to go pick Ozzy up
from the house

after he'd got fired
from Black Sabbath

and brought him back
to the office and, you know,

said to him, "Just don't worry.
We're here for you."

I think he honestly thought
that we were [bleep]

and he'd be sent home.

It was a very sad feeling.
I remember leaving there.

I locked myself in a hotel room
for three months

just getting smashed out of
my brains every day, you know.

I hadn't seen him
for about a week,

and I went to see him.

He just drank and you know,
ordered pizzas all day

and watched TV
and never left the room,

feeling sorry for himself

because he didn't believe
in himself.

And he was so down when I said,

"What the [bleep]
are you doing?"

"Open the window.
Get in the [bleep] shower.

Shave that [bleep] off."

And she said,
"If you clean yourself up,

I'll wanna manage you,"
and I said,

"You wanna manage me?
You're crazy."

I thought my career was in
the [bleep]pan, you know?

Just because he'd got fired
from Black Sabbath,

the kids didn't care.
They loved him.

But as far as the industry goes,
he'd got fired

from one of the biggest
rock bands in the world.

He was an addict,
so they wrote him off.

I wanted to be more mainstream

without selling out
to the pop world.

I wanted to be more accessible.

It was a bit of a slow process
at first,

until I met someone who put
me in touch with Randy Rhoads,

and it kind of all started
to click together, you know.

When I first met Randy Rhoads,

and I was [bleep]
out of my face.

But then I heard him play.
I just went...

♪♪

Oh, [bleep] me.
And that was it.

As soon as he found Randy,
it was like night and day.

He was alive again.

Randy, a breath of fresh air,
funny, ambitious.

Just a great guy.

I knew instinctively that
he was something extra special.

He was like... a gift from God.

We worked so well together.

Randy and I were like
a team, you know.

One thing that he gave to me
was hope.

He gave me a reason
for carrying on.

He had patience with me,
which is great,

and he was very good
to work with, you know.

He pulled the best out of you,
you know.

We had a lot of fun,
lot of fun.

We were lucky that my father
financed Ozzy's solo career.

He financed the album.

It was done
on a 24-track machine

in a bar in England.

It was a lot of fun.
It was a lot of drinking,

a lot of partying, and then
an album came out of it.

I was expecting an awful lot
from Ozzy,

but I wasn't expecting
what I heard.

He really can do it. [laughs]

We had this brilliant album
that was done in six weeks.

"Blizzard of Oz," 'cause we
were all doing cocaine.

To sell this album,
we eventually got a deal

at Epic for $65,000,

and we took it 'cause it was
the only one that would take it.

It came out in the UK first,
and it was just instant hit.

I knew that "Crazy Train"
was gonna be a big song.

I-I just knew.

♪ I'm going off the rails ♪

♪ On a crazy train ♪

♪♪

♪ I'm going off the rails
on a crazy train ♪

Ozzy and Randy together
were just phenomenal.

We were just constantly
on the road,

and it was just fun, drinking,
partying, destroying rooms.

I mean, it was just so much fun.
[laughs]

And Randy was so funny
and naughty,

and it was just like every day
was a new adventure.

Did you have an idea
that he had a crush on you?

No.

We were really kind of
thrown together,

but it wasn't
until August of 1980

that we actually had
a relationship going.

It was the last night
of rehearsals,

and we had two days
before the tour was starting,

and I thought, oh, it's gonna be
the usual thing

that had happened, in my past
anyway, that, you know,

you go with a bloke,
you [bleep] him one night,

and the next day
doesn't know you.

- So you know, like it was before.
- [bleep]...chance over you.

Oh, [bleep] off.

No, it wasn't the perfect case
scenario at all.

Aside from recording
and performing,

- what do you like doing best?
- Sex.

Yeah, you know,
he could have seen a guy

in a [bleep] frock, he would
have probably [bleep] it.

That's just the way Ozzy was
when he's drunk and loaded.

I mean, some ugly, ugly people.

"Well, I wanted to know
what it was like,"

and you're like,
"Oh, for [bleep] sake."

I wasn't a great [bleep]
cheater anyways.

Oh, you were
a [bleep] great cheater.

You [bleep] all her friends,
all the [bleep] staff.

Then you came to me
and [bleep]

every groupie that there was
in the world.

Oh, well, that was part
of the job.

Time for a piss?
Yeah, time for a piss?

That was
an occupational hazard.

[laughs]

When your [bleep] falls off,
don't complain to me.

It's like...

On the "Blizzard" tour,

we were together 24 hours a day
every day.

I was still married
to my ex-wife,

but I was... I fell in love
with Sharon.

We were just having
the time of our lives,

and meanwhile, Ozzy had a wife
and kids back at home.

So it was, you know, a lot.

You could see that there was
a chemistry.

It kinda unfolded rapidly.

But it wasn't something that
it was... it was flaunted

in front of everybody.

It's hard enough working
with someone,

let alone being a partner
with that person.

Life's hard enough as it is

without making it harder

for everyone.

I am Ozzy Osbourne.
I've been

a very extrovert person
best part of my life.

I suppose it's my way
of saying to people,

"Hey, I'm here."

That's what a lot of people
have picked up on me,

the fact that I'm extroverted.

I'm not your normal kind
of rock 'n' roller, you know.

So there was
this boardroom meeting set up

for the head of every department
to meet Ozzy and I.

What are we gonna do
that they're never gonna forget?

So we thought, all right,
well, let's go in,

and we'll get them
doves of peace.

Everybody loves doves.

♪♪

The dove was a total
freak of nature, if you like.

I was absolutely drunk,
and I was being introduced

to the L.A. branch of CBS.

The original idea was that I had
brought these two doves

to throw up into the air
when I walked in

to make this sort of, like,
joke, like, "I'm here."

We'd been, you know,
having a very happy morning.

And everybody sees the dove,

and they're like, "Oh, oh, oh."
Ahh!

[grunts and spits]
Throw the carcass on the table.

It was not a publicity stunt.

I was just out
of my [bleep] face

on drugs and alcohol,
you know.

And everybody was like...
[gasps]

It just shocked the [bleep]
out of everybody.

They called the security.

The security got us,
ushered us out.

The head of legal
was on the phone for me,

and he said,
"If you ever do that again,

we will absolutely destroy you."

And we're like, "[bleep] you."
Pfft.

As he's saying that, his album
is going out to radio,

and they're getting
all these calls in

from station managers saying,
"This record's unbelievable.

We're playing it
20 times a day."

And then it just spread
like wildfire.

["Crazy Train" guitar intro
playing]

The album went right
into the charts.

The reviews were unbelievable.

Who doesn't love "Crazy Train"?
It's just a classic.

Everyone in America
had an Ozzy album

and knew of Ozzy,
and it was just a miracle.

It was new ground for him,
making that transition

from being a part of a group,
Black Sabbath,

to actually being the front man.

Of course, you know, he always
considered Randy his partner.

♪♪

We'd finished
the "Blizzard" album,

the first album,

and he'd just done
a small tour of the UK.

There was a break before he was

going to tour
the rest of the world.

I said, "Do you think you guys
can do this record in a month?"

They did it like that,
and it was brilliant.

♪ Diary of a madman ♪

I remember thinking, wow,
this is gonna be colossal.

It was just wonderfully
wild timing.

It was like one thing after
another was a success, success.

We had a lot of fun
making them albums.

"Blizzard" was still
in the charts

when we put out "Diary."

I think "Blizzard"
and "Diary of a Madman"

were two of the finest albums
that ever was made, you know.

Ozzy solo was
very different musically.

The guitar styles were
different,

and the... the clothes
were different.

Everything about it was
different.

It was more... in tune
with the times that it was made.

It's a great feeling to have
success with albums.

It's what you all make
a record for,

and it's just a magic time.

♪ Over the mountain ♪

♪ Take me across the sky ♪

So we went into arenas.
They were selling out.

We had this
huge stage set designed

that was like a castle.

"Diary of a Madman"...
it was the best stage

that I've ever worked with.
It's so cool.

It was like this
gothic archway thing.

♪♪

Something crazy happened
every night on that tour.

The craziest thing happened
in Des Moines, Iowa.

♪♪

The bat was
a kind of an accident,

which I did milk somewhat.

I always liked old movies
where they used to have

them custard pie fights.

So it gave me this idea
to throw, instead of pies,

bits of meat and animal parts
into the audience.

I thought it was hilarious.

We had this big hand come out
at the end of the show

that Ozzy was on, and then there
was a catapult in the back

full of raw meat that Ozzy
would throw at the audience.

And the catapult went,
and everybody's covered

in intestines and livers,
and then people would come

with, like, parts of animals,

and they would throw
raw chicken.

Sheep's testicles
and live snakes,

dead rats,
all kinds of things.

Somebody threw this frog
onstage...

the biggest frog I've ever seen
in my life,

and it landed on his back.

[woman screams]

I was going hysterical.
I thought it was a baby.

[baby crying]

And somebody threw a bat.

I just thought it was
a rubber bat,

and I just picked it up.
I put it in my mouth

and crunched down. I just
[bleep] bit into it, you know,

being the [bleep] clown
that I am.

Oh, no, it's real!
You know, it's a real, live bat.

[groans] The bat.

Bats are the biggest carriers
of rabies in the world,

and I had to go to the hospital
afterwards,

and they came and started
giving me rabies shots.

And I had one
in each rear.

And I had to have
that every night.

And it was on the news that
Ozzy bit the head off a bat,

and then it just spread
like wildfire.

There were stories
that he will only go on

if he killed so many kittens
before he goes onstage.

It got to the point
where people expected me

to do crazier
and crazier things.

People elaborate,
and Ozzy Osbourne

has been created through them,
not through me.

All I did was get up there
and make a mistake

of biting a head off a bat,
and I tell you what, guys.

It ain't fun when you get
them rabies shots.

If I was sober, I would never
have urinated at the Alamo.

♪♪

Ozzy was on a bender.

He'd wait for me to sleep
and then slip out.

I decided to hide
all his clothes.

She'd go out
and take my clothes

do I didn't have any clothes
to wear.

In the middle of the night,

Ozzy was looking
for his clothes

to go down and join his mates,
and, um, there weren't any.

And so I thought, I know.

So I put one of her dresses on.
I went out.

And he put on one
of my dresses

and goes down into the bar.

The next day,
they had to do photos.

He kept my dress on,
and they took him to where

the Alamo was.

So he just lifted his dress
and took a piss.

This cop turns up.
"There he is!"

And he got arrested.

And of course, after that,
he was banned from San Antonio.

♪♪

From what I did with a bat,
the dove, the Alamo,

and all the other [bleep],
I suppose it's...

it was in the spirit
of rock 'n' roll. I don't know.

I didn't mean any harm
to any of it,

apart from the bat, the dove,
the... [laughs]

It all happened so quickly.
It was like a movie.

You know, when you see bands
in movies,

and they're all
in the van together

and having a great time?
That's the way it was.

♪♪

Why the [bleep] did I wear

them tassel t-shirts
all the time?

What was wrong with me?

I've never seen this before,
ever.

I thought I'd seen it all.
I don't know.

This is unbelievable.

♪♪

I wasn't so much looking at me
as looking at Randy.

Just the feel of seeing him
onstage, playing,

I-I kinda was there
for a little bit, you know.

♪♪

[song ends]
Thank you!

I remember we did a gig
in Knoxville, Tennessee,

and we were driving
from Knoxville, Tennessee,

to Orlando, Florida,
to do a gig with Foreigner.

And we must have got there
about noon,

and Ozzy and I stayed
on the bus.

Ozzy and I were sleeping
in the back of the bus,

and we got woken up
by this huge, huge blast.

Boom!

In the background,

there's like
a big stately home blazing.

I can't understand
what's going on.

It was like being
in a nightmare, you know.

Rudy, our bass player,
was, like, screaming,

"Get off the bus!
Get off the bus!"

We go and get out of the bus,
and we had no idea

still what was going on.

I see the tour manager
down on his knees, crying,

"Randy, Rachel." I'm like...
They go like that.

And then there's part
of the airplane sticking up

through the house.

They realized that they had
been on a plane,

and the plane had crashed.

1 or 2 inches lower, it would
have crashed into the bus,

and we would have blown up
right there.

I don't know what the hell
happened that killed them,

but everybody died
on the plane.

Randy Rhoads,
the 25-year-old lead guitarist

for Ozzy Osbourne's group
was killed in a plane crash

this morning
along with two other people...

the pilot of the plane,

also Rachel Youngblood,
the group's hairdresser.

Ozzy Osbourne himself was
in the tour bus

when one of the plane's wings
clipped it,

but Ozzy escaped injury,
we understand.

25-year-old Randy Rhoads
is dead today.

♪♪

Randy was a gift from God
for Ozzy.

I mean, he was everything
to Ozzy.

I lost a dear friend
in my life,

and I miss him terribly.

After the crash, I would say
that it was a bigger job

for Sharon to keep Ozzy

not only from drinking
or doing drugs,

but to doing damage to himself.

Ozzy still to this day
feels guilty.

"Yeah, if only I was awake,

I would never have let him
get on that plane,"

and, you know, it's something
that Ozzy lives with.

Every single show was a wake
for our friend.

♪ I said, hey,
goodbye to romance, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ Goodbye to friends ♪

They'd forget that, you know.
It just gets kinda weird.

♪ To all the past ♪

♪♪

♪ I guess that we'll meet ♪

♪ We'll meet in the end ♪

♪♪

♪♪

I finally got divorced
from my wife,

and I wanted to marry Sharon.

I loved her, and I didn't want
to live without her.

I wanted to start a new family.

Ozzy wanted to get married.

It was just never a big thing
for me, marriage.

Getting a successful album,
tour, you know,

those were the things
that were important.

It was never like, oh, you know,
planning a wedding, unh-unh.

Do you remember the first time
you proposed to me?

- No.
- You do, too.

I know I proposed,
but I don't know where or when.

- Do you remember the second?
- No.

- Any of them?
- No.

- Oh, [bleep] you.
- I don't.

I remember when I married you,
I-I think.

[chuckles]

The first time he proposed
to me,

we were at my parents' house.

He asked my father
if he could marry me. So sweet.

It was all very lovely,
and, um, nice,

and we were all excited,

and then the first argument,
he goes out the bloody window

into the garden
and lost the ring.

Shaz, would you just bend
over on your knees, please,

darling, just for one sec?

Oh, with that?
Are you crazy?

I wouldn't go near him
with that.

It'll end up in my back.

His manager, Sharon Arden.

She's the woman I've loved
in my life.

She's my soulmate.

He is the most romantic man
I've ever met in my life.

Sharon is making plans
to wed Ozzy.

It will be his second attempt.

I think actually
he's marrying me

so he doesn't have to give me
20% anymore. [chuckles]

♪♪

I was still that drunk.

I mean, when we first
got together,

we both would meet drink
for drink.

And then one morning, she says,
"You know what?

I can't do this anymore."

She never drank again.

I said to Ozzy,
"One of us has gotta be sober,

'cause we're never
gonna survive this."

I thought... I just go,
"What's wrong with her?"

It wasn't her.
It's what was wrong with me.

Ozzy's got a great heart,
but unfortunately,

his addiction is bigger
than his heart.

I don't know what I'd do
without her, you know.

Ozzy wanted babies.

Five months
after we were married,

I was pregnant.

We were over the moon
when we found out.

We were like, "Yeah!"
So it was very exciting.

Aimee was born,
and it was like, "Here you go.

Tour time again."

Aimee, Ozzy, and I on the road,

and we toured like that forever.

♪♪

The one tour
that I will never forget

was the Motley Crue tour.

♪♪

Ow!
[crowd cheering]

We used to have
the wildest times, man.

The "Bark at the Moon" tour
with Motley was over the top.

That tour with Motley Crue,

we used to do
the craziest [bleep].

Is it true that I snorted
a line of ants?

It's incredibly possible,

but do I remember it? No.

I remember one time
in Memphis, Tennessee,

we went to Benihana's.
I had a sake.

And I was drinking it
out of a soup bowl.

[horn honks]

The next thing I know,
I wake up in pitch blackness,

and I'm like,
where the [bleep] am I?

These pair of lights
come toward me, and I go,

"What the [bleep] is that?"
And it goes...

[makes whooshing sound]
...right past me.

I'm feeling like
I wanna take a piss,

and I'm feeling in the dark.
I [bleep] had to piss.

And suddenly it blew like
a whoo!

Cop goes, "When you finish
shaking that thing, mister,

your ass is in jail."
So I was thrown in jail

at 6:00 in the morning.
That's how I got in the jail.

I made it a rule,
never go to a police station,

never pick him up.
"You're a big boy."

♪♪

I don't know how any of us
survived,

but then it started to twist
on me,

and I started to take
the persona of Ozzy offstage,

and I had to drink
more and more and more

to get what I wanted,
and I didn't wanna be...

really be... and it just twisted
on you, you know?

Is it always like this,
or is this an exception?

Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Come on! Come on!

[laughter]

Yeah.

I never drank socially.
I never took coke socially.

I never smoked dope socially.

I never did anything socially.

I did it to get [bleep] up,
you know?

[bleep] off with the camera.

Sobriety [bleep] sucks.

You think,
"I know I can make him stop.

"If I threaten to leave him,
he'll stop.

"If he knows what
a [bleep] father he is,

"he will definitely learn
a lesson,

and he'll stop."

No. They'll stop when
they want to stop, you know?

You can't make anybody stop,
and if anything, you know,

his success and his... money
just made it all worse.

I wasn't drinking
for pleasure.

I was self-medicating.

We call it "Dutch courage"
in England.

♪♪

Ozzy was in a bad way
physically,

you know, drunk every day.

I just couldn't take it,

so he'd promised that he would
wait until Kelly was born,

and then he would go
into treatment.

Sharon came up to me.
She said, "I found this place

where teach you to drink
like a gentleman, properly."

I'm going, "That's it.
Why didn't I think of that?

I've been doing it all
[bleep] wrong."

I was there for Kelly's birth.

I remember Kelly being born
as if it was yesterday.

I was born October 27, 1984.

And on October 28, 1984,
my dad flew

to the Betty Ford Clinic
for the first time.

So when I get there, I go,
"Where's the bar?"

She goes, "What?"

"Where's the bar for me
to start drinking?"

"You're in the right place,
but we ain't got a bar."

And then it was like six weeks
without a drink.

But as I was leaving there,
this one woman said to me,

"I've listened to all
these other counselors

"tell you how wonderful
they think you are.

I'm telling you, you're gonna
[bleep] drink again."

She said, "And every time
you pick that glass up,

you're gonna see my face."

How long did Ozzy stay sober
after Betty Ford?

About... 45 minutes.

And every [bleep] time
I picked that drink up,

it wasn't the same anymore,

and I'd see that woman's face
for the longest time.

♪♪

Hi. My name's Jack Osbourne.

My name is Kelly Lee Osbourne.

I'm Aimee Osbourne, and I'm
the oldest of the children.

My dad is Ozzy.
He's a famous pop star.

I love you, Daddy.

♪ It was the ultimate sin ♪

I think that was 1986.

♪ It was the ultimate sin ♪

I was over the top. I mean,
everything was over the top.

People thought it was camp.

What the [bleep]
was I smoking?

♪ ...ultimate sin ♪

[beep]

♪♪

We'd been told we were having
a girl again,

and then when Jack was born
and the doctor said,

"It's a boy"...

When I popped out,
Daddy saw my willy,

and he fainted.

Ozzy fainted
'cause he was drunk.

They're my kids
and I love them all, you know.

I love them all
in different ways, but, I mean,

because they're all different
personalities, you know.

Being aware
of his addiction problems

was something that was...
always been on the radar.

My mum protected us
and shielded us

from so much
until she couldn't.

It didn't affect me
and my brother

the way that it affected
my sister.

The degrees from time to time
would change

of how, you know,
if he would be good or bad

or in the middle somewhere,
but it was always there.

I didn't want all of the chaos.

I just wanted, you know, like,
quiet, normal, you know,

kind of upbringing.

For some reason, birthdays
were always a source of kind of,

"I hope Dad
doesn't act up again."

Like, one of
my first memories is,

it was my third birthday that
my mom videotaped him

doing what he thought he was
being the fun dad.

He locked us all
in a Wendy house,

which is like a kids' playhouse
and went and got his mask...

- [children screaming]
- The prosthetic mask

from the "Bark at the Moon"
music video,

which is terrifying.
It's like a huge wolf mask,

and it had these huge,
fake, sharp fang teeth,

and these gloves with fangs,

and he was like,
"I'll huff, and I'll puff,

and I'll blow this house down,"
and every single kid cried

and had to get picked up
and go home,

and me, Jack, and Aimee thought
it was the most hilarious thing

that we've ever seen.

It's like a total Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde syndrome.

I'm not... Nobody under
the influence of any alcohol

or drug is the same person.

Ozzy sober is, you know,
the best company in the world.

Funny, entertaining,
kind, sweet,

give you the shirt off his back.

Ozzy using alcohol or drugs...
[bleep]. A complete [bleep].

That's it. It's like
night and day. That's it.

He was [bleep] up.
He was like,

the week before, he was...
he's been on a roll.

Ozzy was on a bender.

We were always [bleep]
fighting, me and Sharon.

And we'd had a couple
of fights,

and it was just building
to something.

You could just feel it.
So I just knew it was coming.

And Ozzy is very rarely calm.
See, before he did it,

so calm and like...

♪♪

So God only knows
what combination he was on

or whatever it was,
whether he was sniffing glue

or dog's arses
or whatever it was,

but it frightened
the [bleep] out of me.

I felt the calmest
I'd ever felt in my life.

It was like serenity.
It was like I was looking...

It was just...
Everything was just peaceful.

And I put the kids to bed,
bathe them.

We had a nanny living
at the house then.

And I was just sat down,
reading,

and he... he's, um,
he came into the room.

I had no idea who was sat
across from me on the sofa,

but it wasn't my husband.

He goes to a stage where he gets
this look in his eyes

where you can't, um...

there's shutters, you know?

Shutters were down on his eyes,

and I just couldn't get
through to him,

and he'd just said,
"We've come to a decision

that you've got to die."

♪ The flames get higher
and higher ♪

And, you know, he was calm,
very, very calm,

and then just suddenly,
he lunged across at me.

[Black Sabbath's
"Black Sabbath" playing]

And just dived on me
and started to choke me.

He got me down on the ground
on top of me,

and I was feeling for stuff
on the table,

and I felt the panic button,
and I just pressed it.

[bell ringing]
And, um...

next thing I know...
the cops were there.

Does it make you feel
uncomfortable

- when you talk about it?
- Sorry?

Does it make you feel
uncomfortable

- when you talk about it?
- Well, it's not exactly

one of my greatest [bleep]
achievements.

All I could think of
was the kids

and "You're not gonna do it.

"You're just not gonna
take me out.

There's no way I'm leaving
my kids."

So it was, um...

probably the most frightened
that I've ever been.

"Why am I here?" He says,

"What, you want me to read
your charge?"

So he read... [stammers]
"John Michael has been arrested

for attempted murder
of Sharon Osbourne."

And I'm like, "Is this a joke?"
He says, "I'm not joking."

He says, "You're going
to court in a bit."

That hit me like...

It was like a [bleep] hammer
between the eyes.

And I was very, very surprised
when she dropped the charges.

♪♪

So you thought about
getting a divorce?

Oh, God, yeah. Yeah.

I was, you know,
looking at all my options

I had left in my life,
and my option, you know,

divorce, all of them, I was
looking at everything. Okay.

What is going to be
the best for my kids?

What is gonna be the best
for me?

And thank God the judge
put him in treatment

for six months,
so I had time on my hands

to really think about what
I should do

and "I don't want your money.
I don't want your [bleep],

"but if you do this to me again,

"either I'm gonna kill you,
or you're gonna kill me,

and do you want that
for the kids?"

I could have killed Sharon,

and that's a desolate feeling.

She's my soulmate. I love her.

For some reason, any time
something crazy happened,

it was always followed by,
like, a trip to Hawaii

or, um, a vacation somewhere,

and I think to be honest
with you,

things like that is why I hate
going on holiday.

I don't like going to places
where there's a beach

and there is sun,
because it reminds me

of being a kid,
and that was what we did

after Dad did something bad.

Yes, they love each other.
They're business partners.

They have kids. They've both
kind of created this,

you know,
brand and empire together.

It's... maybe worth the fight
every now and then.

I was really... lonely
without Ozzy.

I really, really missed him.

I missed
his stupid, bloody jokes

and even his untidiness.
I really, really missed him.

I hated being without him.

But Ozzy was very, very
frightened when he came out,

and so he... when he was
in the house,

he definitely watched
what he was doing.

He was frightened, too.
He'd frightened himself.

♪♪

The new drug and alcohol-free
Ozzy Osbourne

is a fitness fanatic.

He'd work out for two,
three hours at a time,

constant, you know, nonstop,
won't take a break.

It's good fun, though.

Don't I look
like I'm having good fun?

He drives himself crazy,

'cause if he doesn't do it
each day,

then he gets really annoyed
with himself.

Get fit! And die quicker.

Ozzy was doing really well.

He was, you know,
he was working out.

He was... He was trying to be
the best Ozzy

that he could be for us.
He was...

He was trying his best.
He really was.

♪♪

♪ Times have changed ♪

After the darkness
of the end of the '80s,

I started the '90s with one
of my biggest albums.

But I had no idea
that I might not tour again.

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

Hello. My name's Mr. Osbourne.

I was wondering if it was
possible to speak to my wife,

Mrs. Sharon Osbourne.

♪ You could have been
a better friend to me ♪

"No More Tears" was a big,
big album for Ozzy.

Four times platinum.

♪ It hurts so bad,
it's been so long ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

♪♪

♪ Selfish love,
yeah, we're both alone ♪

Ozzy had said, you know,
"This song's for you

"'cause I'm coming home. I'm...

"I think I've had enough
of doing all of this,

and I'm coming home,"

and it was just...
I still adore the song.

Adore it.

♪ 'Cause, Mama ♪

♪ Mama, I'm coming home ♪

I mean, now I'm selling
more records than ever.

I'm playing to bigger audiences
than ever.

My record "No More Tears"
is selling like crazy over here.

It's my biggest-selling record
to date.

♪♪

Dad's always had...
a weird gait

to his walk and, like,
this tremor,

and a doctor diagnosed him
with multiple sclerosis.

And back then, with M.S.,
it was like,

get a good TV remote, because
you're gonna end up bedridden.

And the doctor said
"a little bit of M.S."

It's like saying
you're a little bit pregnant.

You either are or you're
[bleep] not, I think.

I don't know.

We knew that something
wasn't....right with my dad.

And we saw a doctor
after doctor after doctor.

So I figured out, too,
but, you know,

I spent the whole of the week,
you know.

I said... He said,
"I want to run some tests."

I said, "Whatever you gotta do,

"if you keep me here
for a [bleep] year,

I've just gotta find out
one way or the other."

And the doctor, you know,
he goes,

"You do not have M.S."

And I said, "I never thought
I [bleep] did."

You know, it turns out
that I had a hereditary

non-specific tremor.

It's very rare, what I have.

They give me a small amount
of medication,

and I'm okay with it.
I don't tremor anymore.

A lot of it was probably
to do with excessive drug use

and alcohol use at the time,
and his body was just... shot.

He did a lot of cocaine
in the '80s.

[crowd cheering]

[amplified voice]
This is, uh, supposed

to be my farewell tour.

[drum beats]

We'll see.

[cheering]

And he did one last tour.
He did the "No More Tours" tour.

It was the final leg of touring
the "No More Tears" album,

and it was like the
"Goodbye, Ozzy" kind of thing.

It's the end of the road,
baby. I'm coming home.

- Really?
- Yeah, really,

I'm coming home finally.

- Then let's go home.
- All right, let's go.

It's my farewell tour.

The reason for being that
is because

I still wanna make records,
but I wanna spend less time

on the road, because getting
on the bus was 12 hours...

it's not
a very glamorous lifestyle.

It paid its toll on me
because now my head

still thinks that my ass
is 21, you know.

I remember his last show,

and I remember the fireworks
going off at the end.

[fireworks popping,
crowd cheering]

Something like, "I'll be back,"

and then I remember us
just going home to England.

♪♪

We went home,
and it was the summertime,

and we'd just moved
into our Welders House,

and it was like heaven, perfect.

Aah! No!

The kids had the best time.

This is Daddy.

And it was just...
a really, really great time

because there was no pressure
to do anything.

Aah! Aah!
You little...

It was good.
Dad was in a really good place.

He was really kind of,
you know,

kind of settling into, you know,
the notion of retired life.

The kids had the best time
with their dad.

It was definitely the longest
time of being with their dad,

just doing family.

That's all Ozzy did,
was his family.

So he wasn't drinking
and using,

and he was just great.

♪♪

He usually ends up sleeping
in the kitchen with the dogs,

and he lives in it.
That's his room...

the couch on the kitchen.

Whenever Dad was home,

I always got the feeling
he was bored,

like he never... even though

he complains to this day
about touring,

he's not good at home.

Like, I literally just remember
him as, like,

the dude on the couch.

♪ Do-do-do-do-do ♪

You know, he'd pick me up
from school occasionally,

but he was always...
I always just got the feeling

like he was like,
"Well, what do I do? I'm here.

I'm... and this is not
what I'm good at."

Dad, that's sick.

And I suddenly realized that
Ozzy belongs on the road.

You know, Ozzy is, um, I mean,
I felt like a caged animal.

I bought different toys
and all kinds of things.

- [bell rings]
- "My dad's like,

I'm gonna get a bicycle.
I want to ride a bike,"

because the guy at the bike shop
was also giving him weed,

you know, small, like,
English village.

[cow moos]

But it... I just remember him...

It was like his purpose in life
got taken away from him.

Now I'm ready to come out
and go crazy again, you know.

'Cause I really missed
my audience.

I really missed...

There's not a thrill
in the world like a...

a... like a great show,
you know.

♪♪

And then it was like,

you've gotta get back
to the real world,

and so it was like, all right,

we should do Lollapalooza

and, you know,
things like that,

and then the... the agent
called back and said,

"Oh, no, you know, they don't
want Ozzy on Lollapalooza.

He's not cool enough,"

and I'm like,
how dare they say that?!

♪♪

And my mom was like,
"[bleep] you.

We're gonna start
our own festival."

- Whoo!
- Metal rules!

Yeah, let's do our own
[bleep] thing.

And that's how we came up
with Ozzfest.

[crowd cheering]

[amplified voice]
Welcome to Ozzfest.

♪♪

What makes Ozzfest so special

is that every outcast,
every kid that was told

that they were weird for what
they listened to

and what they dressed like

got to come together
in one place

and be accepted
and be themselves

and have the best day
of their lives.

This is the best day
of my whole life,

and it's gonna be awesome.
Whoo!

♪♪

Ozzfest was our summer camp.

We would get out of school
and the next day

be on a flight to wherever
it was starting.

Mum actually started to book
the tour

in accordance
with our school schedule.

[man yells indistinctly,
crowd cheering]

[amplified voice]
Don't let Ozzy down,

because he's backstage listening
to your asses right now!

[crowd cheering]

I'll go out there,
and I wanna give them

my heart and soul, and I really
wanna do that every night,

and sometimes I can,
but sometimes I can't,

and when I can't,
I'm a pissed-off son of a bitch,

and when I can, I'm the happiest
guy in the world.

Thank you! Good night...

Ozzfest was a big success,
but when the TV show took off,

things got really
[bleep] weird.

♪♪

I went from sold-out shows
and Ozzfest

to having TV cameras
in my house.

Where did that come from?

[beep]

[vacuum whirring]

Turn the [bleep] thing off!
It's driving me mad, man!

♪ Crazy ♪

People would come into our house
and go,

"Is it always like this?"

- Jack!
- Oh, jeez.

Why don't you shut
the [bleep] up?

Oh!

We would go, what?

- Aah!
- Stop screaming!

[screaming continues]

We just do what we do,
and many people would say,

"You have to film this."

The success of the show,

I think, really turned my dad
into a household name.

And I think when "The Osbournes"
came out,

he was worried
that he was no longer

gonna get the validation
from his fans

because he'd become
so vulnerable.

Well, listen, I was a TV star.

I'm thinking, this is
[bleep] unbelievable.

She won't come out.
[cat screeches]

Sharon!

The one part of the show
that I thought was funny

when Lola the bulldog puked.
[laughs]

♪♪

I mean, it was for real.
That's the way we are,

dog poop and all.

Um, to be Ozzy Osbourne,
it could be worse.

I could be Sting.

He'd crossed over, you know?

He'd made that leap
from being the guy

on the poster in
your teenage son's bedroom

to now the guy on the TV
in the family living room,

and Mom and Dad loved him
just as much in a different way.

Sharon, I will say
very slowly,

"It is not my band, and I don't
wanna do any promotions."

- Do you wanna do it?
- Yes.

Seeing the fact
that my father is a father

and a good father
and despite his flaws,

and a rock star,

it'd trip people out,
and it made them... love him.

I love you all. I love you
more than life itself.

You're all [bleep] mad.

It was the first time that any
sort of celebrity

had opened up their home,

but yet they related
to our family.

Their old man couldn't work
a remote control either.

The people that really matter
were the public,

and the public related
and loved Ozzy.

♪♪

In one respect,
it was fantastic.

But I'm glad it ended
when it did,

because when you've got cameras
in your house 24/7,

you start to feel like

a [bleep] experiment,
you know?

When you become a TV star,
you're in people's homes,

and it's so much bigger than
actually being a rock star.

It's like from here to here.

[amplified voice]
What a fantastic audience

we have tonight.
[laughter]

Celebrities, Hollywood stars.

Ozzy Osbourne.

[guests cheering]

[imitates Bush]
Ozzy "Ozburn."

[imitates Bush]
Ozzy "Ozburn."

[imitates Bush]
Ozzy "Ozburn."

I just love that.

Aah!

I thought, how did that happen?

Oh, my! Look who's there!

I know that that made
my dad feel very special.

Being the boy from Birmingham
who grew up with nothing

to... being invited
to the White House.

Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff.

[laughter,
cheers and applause]

You know that level
of success,

you know it's gonna come down.

You fire an arrow pointed
up to the stratosphere,

it's gonna come back down.

Everything is so good.

I'm always like
one of these people,

like, you know,
typical Jewish mother.

Something's gonna happen.
It can't be this good, you know?

When I found out, seriously,

it was like someone
stabbed me in the chest.

You think something like that
can never come into your family.

But when it does,
it's just a really big shock.

At first, you're like,
oh, [bleep],

what are we gonna do now?

You don't accept it, but you
don't ignore it, you know.

The diagnosis was
colon cancer.

On one hand, we're the biggest
thing since sliced bread

for five minutes,
and then when they told me

my wife's got colon cancer,
I was like,

it's like a bad dream.

We're doing our own version
of "ER."

So this is your first,
first, first, right?

Just like a virgin.

- Be gentle, Gabriel.
- I'll be very gentle.

Do they put you to sleep?

They give you a pill,
and the pain goes away.

I'm not frightened.
I'm not any of that.

[voice breaking]
I love you.

I remember everything
just felt like,

oh, my God.
We're gonna lose my mom.

This is... We can't do this.
Like, this is terrible.

And then when my dad found out,

it... it sent him
over the deep end,

like literally sent him
over the deep end.

Ozzy was self-medicating
because of everything

that had happened with me.

Watching my mum be sick,
he could not handle.

He started drinking and using
more than I had ever seen him.

Someone has been in my room

and taken my bed
away from my room.

- I don't think so, darling.
- Uh...

Who would do that?

[grunts]

'Cause I had kind of swallowed
the pill

that she ain't gonna make it.

Ozzy!

But in that, you could see
how much he loved her,

how much he adored my mum,

even though he made
the whole process

so much harder. [laughs]

♪♪

Ozzy and Kelly recorded
a cover of "Changes,"

and they were going
to promote it in Europe

so they were in England.

♪ She is my baby ♪

[cheers and applause]

- [laughter]
- "Changes" was always

one of my favorite
Black Sabbath songs.

♪ But it's too late now ♪

It was written by me

and the guys from Sabbath
a long time ago.

It was my first number one
in England for years.

Both:
♪ We're going through changes ♪

And it was a huge hit
for the both of us,

♪ Changes ♪

To have your first number one
with your dad

and for it to be your dad's
first number one was magic.

You guys were flawless.

Great. I love you.
I love you.

But if ever there
was a moment in my family

where everything seems good,

I sit there and I'm like,
"What's coming?"

A lovely day today.

[motor revving]

I'm just gonna go lap around
the field.

[motor revving]

Oz!

[motor revving]

Oz!
Ozzy, can you breathe?

Someone get back
and get an ambulance.

Get an ambulance!

I was live on a TV show
in England,

promoting the single,

and a policeman walked
into the studio

and was standing by the camera,
and I was like,

oh, my God.
I'm about to get arrested.

The policeman walked me
into a room,

handed me a phone

and said, "It's your mum,"

and my mum
was going through chemo

at that time, and my mum said,
"I need you to sit down."

What's wrong?

She said to me,
"Your dad's had an accident.

"We don't know what's going on.

"We don't know
if he's gonna make it.

I need you to get to him."

- Is Dad all right?
- He's got bleeding in one lung,

and they might have to go in
and operate on that.

They've got a specialist
on the way to see him.

- [bleep], that's bad.
- Big-time, Jack.

They took me
to Wexham Hospital,

and he came out of surgery.
They wouldn't let me see him.

And they... he was in a coma,
but at one point,

I had a mother in intensive care
in L.A.,

and a father
in intensive care in England.

Osbourne fractured
eight ribs,

cracked a vertebrae in his neck,
and broke his collarbone.

He underwent emergency surgery.

And as soon as I'd got
the call, I'm like, okay,

which is the first flight
out of here?

I remember landing at Heathrow,

and the police were waiting
for me

to take me straight
to the hospital,

and your husband's lying there
in a coma,

and there's, you know, tubes
coming out of everywhere

in his body, and it was just...

brutal, absolutely brutal.

And in typical Ozzy style,
he discharged himself.

They were all, "You know,
you can't do this.

You're gonna die.
There's no way."

Okay, I'm going home
with eight broken ribs,

broken neck,
smashed collarbone.

Every part or my body feels
like I've been thrown

off a [bleep] building.

I'm never riding
a [bleep] bike again, ever.

He came through it,
and that is why

instances like this that
my father has always seemed

so invincible to me.

He is the real Iron Man.

I'm just a very fortunate man
to be still here

talking to you about my life.

You think, "Oh, this family's
got a curse,"

but yet
so many great things happen.

But it's always been like
a 4-ring circus,

our life, you know?

It's like...
[makes whooshing sound]

My blood work is completely
clear of cancer,

and I finish my treatment
in January.

[cheers and applause]

That feeling's
pretty damn good,

to be told you're cancer-free.

- Yeah!
- And that's just Sharon.

She's unbelievable. She...
Nothing fazes her.

My heart was breaking
every night onstage.

I put on a brave face,

but when you've got
a broken heart

'cause someone that you love
has got sick,

you can't pretend not to have
a broken heart.

[amplified voice] She's doing
[bleep] great, man.

I owe my life to Sharon.

The thought of losing her was
just absolutely unbearable.

When the chemo was over,
Sharon's cancer was gone.

♪♪

Can you visualize yourself
doing this at 50 years old,

- playing rock 'n' roll?
- No.

I mean, I suppose I'll still be
involved in some form of music

one way or other,
but I don't think I'll be

doing it at this pace
another 15 years.

[beep]

Retiring? [bleep] off.

♪♪

[amplified voice]
Are you ready?

I just turned 70.

Ozzy, happy [bleep]
birthday, mate! Yeah!

- I'm sober today.
- Love you.

And, you know,
and yesterday I was sober.

The day before that,
I was sober.

And I don't plan
on getting drunk today,

but I don't know.

♪♪

I can honestly tell you

I never thought
he would get sober.

I just didn't realize
how much more I was capable

of loving him
when he was sober.

He is a different person,
completely.

One's too many,
and 10's not enough,

and that's so [bleep] true.

When you wake up,
and you don't like

the way you feel
every morning, you go,

something's gotta go
one way or the other.

I just didn't like me anymore.

♪♪

He is known as
the Prince of Darkness,

but this morning,
for the first time,

legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne,

alongside his wife and manager
Sharon,

is shedding light
on a private health battle

and the moment he says
everything changed

last February.

♪♪

I had a bad fall.

I had to have surgery
on my neck,

which screwed all
my nerves in,

and I found out that I have,
uh...

It's, um Parkin 2,
which is a form of Parkinson's.

♪♪

The initial shock is,
"I've got Parkinson's!"

But nobody knows
what the [bleep] it is.

I didn't know anything about it
apart from the name.

He's been diagnosed
with full-onset Parkinson's.

Why should it be
a dirty little secret?

So if anybody out there
gets diagnosed,

don't be afraid to ask
questions.

It was at a place where...

you can't run from it,
you can't hide from it.

Something's wrong.

I'm no good with secrets.

I cannot walk around
with it anymore.

Because it's like I'm running
out of excuses, you know.

He may not be able to run
up and down

like he used to onstage,

but it's still about the voice,

and he's still
a funny [bleep].

Nothing can take that away.
Nothing.

Number one question
from me was,

is it a terminal illness?

And the guy says,
"No, but life is."

It's just another thing on my
plate that I gotta deal with.

I'm not in the slightest
worried about it.

Just no hiding it now.

He's in a position to help
a lot of people.

He can become a really amazing
source of inspiration

for a lot of people
living with this disease.

♪♪

You know what?

Life goes on.

But right now, right here today,
I'm [bleep] great.

♪♪

'cause I ain't done yet,
you know?

I got a lot left.

And we're doing that album,
which is

the best medication
I've had all along.

Doing the record
with Andrew Watt saved my life.

He's always had a funny walk,
so [bleep] it.

You know?
This ain't nothing different.

No pity.
He doesn't need pity.

He just needs a stage.

You know,
Ozzy's always been a man

of the people,
which for me is... is just

one of the things
I love about him.

My audience is better
than any drugs,

alcohol, sex, woman,
relationship,

apart from my immediate family,
I mean.

I mean, it's the best love
affair of my life, my audience.

I think he feels an obligation
to himself

and I think he feels
an obligation to his fans,

and that's, I think,
the sign of good music,

is because it hasn't skipped
a generation.

His music has touched
every generation,

you know, that's been exposed
to it since it came out.

[cheering]

I think that the audience has
a sense of that could be me.

I think he's a regular bloke.

He does these wild things
that seem dangerous

and may actually be dangerous,

and we... we receive
that information as freedom.

And the idea of being free
like Ozzy is very exciting.

I don't think Ozzy is similar
to anybody.

To me, Ozzy's just original.

So you get stripes for that
in my book.

He's like the godfather
of... of metal.

The guy's no joke.
He... He... He lives it.

He did party
and all that other stuff,

but I respect him as an artist,

and he really gives his all
for his performances

and to give the fans
something they want.

I'm 23, and I feel like

sometimes I can't do
a [bleep] tour,

but Ozzy's still crushing 'em
and kicking ass to this day.

I think it's pretty bad-ass.
It's incredible.

You can't be defined
as this one thing

when you're someone like Ozzy.

He's one of the only people
that, maybe other than Bowie,

that I can think of
that smiles onstage.

He always has a huge smile
on his face

like he's gonna burst out
laughing,

or he is laughing,
and that is so infectious,

especially in a genre where
everybody's trying to

out-grimace everybody else,
out-tough everybody else,

and Ozzy is just
at the center of it,

like, with this giant grin
on his face the whole time.

Like, "When do you think
he's gonna retire?"

I'm like,
"Look at him up there.

Look at the smile on his face.
He ain't going nowhere."

♪♪

Talking to him, I'm like,

"Do you feel like
you've done it?"

And he's like, "No."
And that kills me.

He's never sat back and gone,
"I'm good. I did it."

There's guilt and shame
associated with his journey.

I think you never feel
like you've made it.

That's the paranoia
that you always have.

As soon as you kick back and you
think you've made it, it's over.

You always feel like you're one
second away from being done.

♪♪

Both Black Sabbath
and his solo material

were the, uh,
the playbook for heavy metal.

I don't know what music
would be like

if it weren't for the influence
of Ozzy.

It's everywhere.

♪♪

[laughter]

♪♪

[singing "Paranoid"
in Spanish]

[laughter]

Ozzy changed everything.

♪ All day long
I think of things ♪

♪ But nothing seems to satisfy ♪

♪ Think I'll lose my mind ♪

His voice is his legacy.

It's so instantly...
identifiable.

You hear one note,
you know that's Ozzy.

♪ Occupy my brain ♪

Everything you wanna say
is right there in the music.

♪♪

He constantly works at trying
to be a better person,

trying with his sobriety,

becoming a better father,
being a good granddad.

and just constantly,
constantly trying to be better.

I love that about him.

I think people love my father
for the same reasons

I love my father.

He is
the most irresistible madman

you will ever meet
in your life.

Pearl's class is singing
"Crazy Train"

at their school play. Um...

♪♪

[voice breaking] I don't know.
It's just... It's kinda cool.

[chuckles]

You know, yeah, he's done a lot
of, like, [bleep] weird things

and he's been [bleep]
at times,

but, like, his contributions
have been far greater

than any of his faults.

♪♪

Like, that's how
he should be remembered.

And then I'll [bleep]
do an encore.

I'm the Prince of Darkness.

♪♪

This right here was
the very first tattoo

when I was about 14.

My father kicked
my [bleep] ass

when I got home with it.

And I bought some Indian ink.
I did that myself.

That was done in prison
by a guy

who was doing life
for [bleep] killing somebody.

The thing about tattoos is
a tattoo is not just for now.

It's for the rest
of your [bleep] life.

But you know what?
Another thing.

Tattoos [bleep] hurt.

♪♪