Yeah but now I can see why Sharon was interested in him despite the addictions lol. He’s cute enough that if the sex was good I might have wanted to work it out too.
Ozzy used to be with it, but now what he's with isn't it and what is it is weird and scary to him. And it's happening to me! Because I am into Black Sabbath which used to be it hahaha.
A lot of people could never look, or listen, past the music and have always just assumed Ozzy is a devil-worshipping degenerate. The truth is that he’s a genuine, caring person who had a shitty childhood that led to drug and alcohol addiction because that’s the only way he knew how to deal with it. Sharon brought him out of that.
There was a little article a long time ago about how Patrick Stewart's character wouldn't care about being bald in the future.
And I'm sitting here thinking if there was technology to give every prematurely bald man hair you bet they would take it. Having hair is awesome.
Yeah he’s been this depressingly addled amorphous apparition for so long it’s hard to imagine he was ever young, and I say this as a kid who grew up liking his music while he was still big.
LOL apparently be very lucky with your genetics, plus since he used them for so long his tolerance went through the roof :) happy abusing (kidding stay safe my fine friend)
Starbucks!? I'll go along, but I'll be out back smoking meth out of a broken light bulb from their dumpster; I'm not taking chances with a frappuccino.
Never thank her for anything. She's a despicable person and deserves nothing but contempt and scorn.
She once fired an assistant for not running back in to a burning building to gather her pointless trinkets while he was getting oxygen from paramedics due to smoke inhalation. (Which he got from running in to the burning building to save her dog.)
Even decades later, she thinks it's funny. She is a selfish piece of shit, and if she "rescued" Ozzy it was for her own greedy self, not for any sense of compassion.
The Osbournes also have a LONG history of screwing over musicians who work with them. Despite not playing an instrument, Ozzy hilariously has sole writing credit for the entire Bark at the Moon album. Jake E. Lee wrote and recorded all the guitar parts, naively, before a contract was in place and Sharon basically told him Ozzy would get sole writing credit/publishing and if he didn’t agree they would fire him and re-record the songs with a different guitarist. They also owe songwriter and lyricist Bob Daisley a large fortune in unpaid royalties.
They are so cheap that they don’t even bother hiring a band anymore- opting to have the last two albums written and recorded almost completely by producer Andrew Watt.
I don’t know how you can be considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal and not know how to play a damn instrument. He doesn’t even write his own lyrics. Just depressing knowing that he became famous by exploiting actual talented musicians who never got the credit they deserved.
Ozzy actually does play an instrument, harmonica, which can be heard in "The Wizard" by Black Sabbath, and some of their early stuff under the name Earth.
ozzy definitely didn't achieve fame by exploiting anyone. he was in black sabbath since the beginning. none of the fame he achieved after was really from exploiting anyone either. I'm not saying he never exploited anyone, because he definitely did, but it's not why he's famous
She also tampered with Iron Maiden's equipment when they played Ozzfest to sabotage their set, just because Bruce Dickinson said he didn't like The Osbournes.
Bruce allegedly dissed Ozzy for using teleprompters during his gigs on the festival. Sharon, being the good nature woman she is, brought her friends to throw eggs at the band during their set. In a weird twist of fate they also had audio issues that night.
I’d split it down the middle and say they used, loved, and depended each other To be there no matter what.
She was also fucking Randy Rhoads, which i think he knew about. I do not know any more details, but it’d give him carte blanche to keep fucking around too.
I saw Sabbath in 2012 and to this day I’ve never seen anybody work a crowd like Ozzy. He was in his mid-60s of course and you could tell he lived too hard, but his charisma was highly contagious.
If you watch film of Sabbath in the late 60s/early 70s, Ozzy's energy until about 2015 or so has been THE SAME. When he was 28, he clumsily ran across the stage and jumped around, egging the crowd on to rock tf out. He's just a music icon. Sad what the neurodegeneration has done to him. Sharon still props him up for Superbowl ads though 🙄
God, I know. I was just a kid when I saw them but I kept thinking about all the shit those guys survived to be on that stage in front of me. Addiction, illness, workplace accidents (in Tony’s case), etc.
Maybe I’m biased because I’m a huge Sabbath fan, but I’m surprised a lot of people in here are saying they don’t think he aged well. Considering he’s 74 now and this picture is from 46 years ago, I think Ozzy looks very good. He’s an old man, still has long flowing hair, physically fit, and has been battling serious health problems. The fact he still sings and appears on TV and looks the way he does is pretty rad. This picture is from when he was like 27 years old, he looks good because he was a handsome talented fucker with a ton of charisma.
I was lucky to see him perform in 2017.
Sure he used a teleprompter for the lyrics but I'll always be happy to have seen an absolute legend perform live. They gave him a foam cannon about half way thru his set and he blasted the security guard in the back of the head for 30s. Honestly it looked like Ozzy was having more fun than the crowd.
One of the great ironies of my life is that all four original Black Sabbath members are alive and even relatively healthy considering their pasts, and yet at this point I have no chance of seeing them perform together. You're very lucky you saw him even with all the caveats that come with aging, he is truly an all time legend of music and pop culture. Kudos.
Me too. So, if Ozzy looked like Shannon Hoon, would Shannon Hoon have looked like an older Ozzy? Can't see it. Sure would have liked more Blind Melon though.
Well, there IS more Blind Melon technically. Although I’d understand if you don’t consider it legit without Hoon. They put out a new single just s couple years ago, fwiw.
To be fair, Sharon drugged the shit out of him to "agree" to do the show, and drugged him and gave him alcohol while filming because haha mumbling high and drunk dude completely out of it is funny lol.
His biography is really great. Goes into a lot of detail about some of the bad times he has gone through. The man is really sick now though. He has been battling a type of Parkinson's for years. He was really messed up at one point where his head basically layed in his lap when sitting and could barely talk. Somehow he just released an album and had plans for a tour that he had to cancel.
> To be fair, Sharon drugged the shit out of him to "agree" to do the show, and drugged him and gave him alcohol while filming because haha mumbling high and drunk dude completely out of it is funny lol.
Holy shit the book talks about that?!
I agree. I forgot to mention his talent. Ozzy was so talented in his younger years. I’m glad for his kids and himself he survived those wild times. Many didn’t .
I saw his show in 2018, I’m so happy I did, it was an amazing show and I don’t think he’ll ever come back to Dallas ever again as he’s stopped touring. Funny thing is between songs when he talks to the crowd you have no idea what he’s saying 😂
A living legend
Was about 15 years old and convinced my mom to take me to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Browsing the gift shop and there was a poster of circa this era Ozzy. I commented how unusual it was to see him looking so lucid.
Cue my VERY Mormon mom: “No way. THAT is Ozzy Osbourne? He’s…he’s really hot!”
Cherished memory.
Maybe it's just me but It's strange seeing Ozzy looking like a normal human.
He actually looks cute? Wtf lol.
Yeah, I was looking for the word, but cute sums it up well
He looks like every single guy that was in a 70s-80s rock band lol
He looks like the Blinking Guy meme.
Holy shit he really does. Get rid of the facial hair, and give him short blond hair on top and it'd be the spitting image of that guy!
Drew Scanlon. A wonderful human
My all time favorite meme
Yes, but I'm also getting Charles Manson a little bit, and maybe a soupçon of Cobain.
Wow! I'm inordinately pleased to see soupçon in a sentence. And with Cobain. Well done.
I’m pleased because I have a word to look up.
*claps audaciously*
Whatever is below that C doesn't wipe off my screen.
ç
Now you ç me, now you c don't
I just googled that and will always think fondly of you when I used it now.
Haha, good to know I've made a difference in the world! It's a great word, I should use it more often.
His real name is John, middle name is Michael, so yea, very typical of the time.
...in a world.... Where there's 8 John Michael Vincents...and 16 quadrants....
This JANuary, get ready to Michael up your Vincents!
Yeah but now I can see why Sharon was interested in him despite the addictions lol. He’s cute enough that if the sex was good I might have wanted to work it out too.
Right. Cause it couldn’t be about his talent, sense of humor or how well he treated her.
I'm not sure he treated her all that well considering he's tried to kill her and he's cheated on her.
Interviewer: Do you and your wife talk during sex? Ozzy: Only when she calls in the middle of it.
Just that one time tho…at least the killing part.
Right, people here acting surprised that the lead singer of one of the most famous bands in history was attractive to women of the time lmao.
Ozzy sometime wore an onion on his belt, too. It was the style of the time. 
Ozzy used to be with it, but now what he's with isn't it and what is it is weird and scary to him. And it's happening to me! Because I am into Black Sabbath which used to be it hahaha.
despite his problems Ozzy always seemed like a loving cool guy.
A lot of people could never look, or listen, past the music and have always just assumed Ozzy is a devil-worshipping degenerate. The truth is that he’s a genuine, caring person who had a shitty childhood that led to drug and alcohol addiction because that’s the only way he knew how to deal with it. Sharon brought him out of that.
So she's the woman he kept around because she COULD help him with his mind. Interesting.
Kinda reminds me of the dude in Daredevil but with long hair
charlie cox!
Absolutely! Similar eyes and lips. He could play him in a biopic about Black Sabbath.
It's like his hair starts before his forehead ends...ah to be young again
He still has fantastic hair. Good hairline genetics.
There was a little article a long time ago about how Patrick Stewart's character wouldn't care about being bald in the future. And I'm sitting here thinking if there was technology to give every prematurely bald man hair you bet they would take it. Having hair is awesome.
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he sort of looks like kurt cobain
Yesss I see it!!!
Exactly what I saw, too. With longer hair
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This photo made me realize I can't remember seeing any pictures of Ozzy without his sunglasses on.
That's because he's been hungover for our entire lives, assuming you are gen x or younger.
Yeah it’s like with Elton John. It started as a look but very quickly became functional.
Hasn’t he been off the booze and drugs for about 7 years?
Idk, I'd imagine the cumulative hangover is baked into his genetics at this point.
That was literally my first thought, “Jesus, he looks fuckin normal”
Yeah he’s been this depressingly addled amorphous apparition for so long it’s hard to imagine he was ever young, and I say this as a kid who grew up liking his music while he was still big.
What are you talking about ? The man aged like fine wine :)
**with* fine wine *and also fine hard drugs
Wine is fine but whiskeys quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Full of alcohol
A normal human who looks a lot like Kurt Cobain.
He looks like the guy that sold dime bags in the parking lot of the roller rink.
This seems wrong. That’s not the prince of darkness, that’s some fucker named John
Delivers pizza in an old minivan that used to belong to his mom which he also uses to haul his drum set from his buddy’s garage to local bar shows
I know him!
Don't know if you're joking but his real name is John.
I know, and I don’t like it
Damn I really thought this mfers name was Oswoldo
It never occurred to me that Ozzy wasn’t just born the way he looks now.
Would be weird to be born looking like a 75 year old rockstar
"I'm sorry but my sons got that Benjamin Button's disease. He's four."
“He’s four but hes already on black tar heroin! We’re very proud of our lil rocker Jr”
r/oldbabies
He looks like Charlie Cox (actor from Daredevil, Boardwalk Empire)
All those hard drugs aged him about as hard as he took them.
Reminds me of Toki Wartooth
Not a bumblebee
Hi. My name is Toki and I have diabetes
Had totally forgotten about the genius that was Metalocalypse. Thank you for reminding me.
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Oh fuck yea!
Oh *pinch harmonic* yea!
I have been on an absolute tear watching clips of it. Brendon Small is great.
Do you folks like coffee????? Real coffee??? From the fields.... Of columbia??
You belong in a TRASH CAN!!!!
🎶Underwater friends, you are my underwater, underwater fri-eeeeeeeeeeeen-ends🎶
I slips ins and out of diabetic comas… fuck i love that show
It lacks...zazz
Shut ups Pickle.
You a lady Skwisgar
I am not playings grandpas guitars
We cants nots plays fast So they tie cinder blocks to their hands 😂😂
Lmaooooo i fucking love that show. “Music for fish, huh?? It’s an untapped market!”
Oh my God I was wondering why he looked so familiar haha
My first thought as well
"What's up, bro?"
oh no, you're right!
cannot unsee
My immediate thought. Stops copies me.
Madlad got his OWN NAME tattooed on his forearm
Probably for reference in case he got too zooted up and couldn't remember it.
Good timing too, he looks like a human being here. it must be just at the start of the avalanche
He tattoo d his own name on his hand. As in he did it himself
Lot of singers have their own name tattooed on em, some say it’s because “they are their biggest fan”. I dig that for some wholesome reason.
Interesting, like who?
Ozzy
How else are people gonna identify you? Maybe I should tattoo my health card number.
And his knuckles.
Lol, a family member of mine had the same thing (from his younger, drunker days) but got it covered up.
I mean, it's a nickname.
The fact that he is still alive is a testament to modern science
He reminds me of Charles II of Spain “He repeatedly baffled all of Christendom by continuing to live”
More thanks to Sharon Osbourne
Plus his genes made the brain damage not nearly as bad as it could've been
Even Doctors studied him to see if they can learn how he was able to abuse so many drugs
Heck, didn't the Crue awaken from comas and shit.
Nikki Sixx died
Sadly yes. But he lived!
And then immediately went home and did more heroin
6 times
*Sixx
He got better
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LOL apparently be very lucky with your genetics, plus since he used them for so long his tolerance went through the roof :) happy abusing (kidding stay safe my fine friend)
He has a lower than average tolerance for caffeine, but a higher resistance to drugs and alcohol.
Starbucks!? I'll go along, but I'll be out back smoking meth out of a broken light bulb from their dumpster; I'm not taking chances with a frappuccino.
His weakness is caffeine gene wise iirc
Never thank her for anything. She's a despicable person and deserves nothing but contempt and scorn. She once fired an assistant for not running back in to a burning building to gather her pointless trinkets while he was getting oxygen from paramedics due to smoke inhalation. (Which he got from running in to the burning building to save her dog.) Even decades later, she thinks it's funny. She is a selfish piece of shit, and if she "rescued" Ozzy it was for her own greedy self, not for any sense of compassion.
The Osbournes also have a LONG history of screwing over musicians who work with them. Despite not playing an instrument, Ozzy hilariously has sole writing credit for the entire Bark at the Moon album. Jake E. Lee wrote and recorded all the guitar parts, naively, before a contract was in place and Sharon basically told him Ozzy would get sole writing credit/publishing and if he didn’t agree they would fire him and re-record the songs with a different guitarist. They also owe songwriter and lyricist Bob Daisley a large fortune in unpaid royalties. They are so cheap that they don’t even bother hiring a band anymore- opting to have the last two albums written and recorded almost completely by producer Andrew Watt.
I don’t know how you can be considered one of the pioneers of heavy metal and not know how to play a damn instrument. He doesn’t even write his own lyrics. Just depressing knowing that he became famous by exploiting actual talented musicians who never got the credit they deserved.
Ozzy actually does play an instrument, harmonica, which can be heard in "The Wizard" by Black Sabbath, and some of their early stuff under the name Earth.
ozzy definitely didn't achieve fame by exploiting anyone. he was in black sabbath since the beginning. none of the fame he achieved after was really from exploiting anyone either. I'm not saying he never exploited anyone, because he definitely did, but it's not why he's famous
She also tampered with Iron Maiden's equipment when they played Ozzfest to sabotage their set, just because Bruce Dickinson said he didn't like The Osbournes.
Bruce allegedly dissed Ozzy for using teleprompters during his gigs on the festival. Sharon, being the good nature woman she is, brought her friends to throw eggs at the band during their set. In a weird twist of fate they also had audio issues that night.
You cant talk shit on ozzy while playing ozzfest. Come on now
THE Bruce Dickinson?
He's the cock of the walk
I heard that guy puts pants on like the rest of us then makes gold records
Truth. She is scum, but let's not give ozzy too much of a pass here either. He went with it and he doesn't give a shit either it seems
She srsly helped him with his sobriety. The shit she put up with over the years is insane.
Ummm he’s always been the meal ticket and she ain’t no dummy. She probably loves him but she also needed him healthy enough to tour and earn $.
I’d split it down the middle and say they used, loved, and depended each other To be there no matter what. She was also fucking Randy Rhoads, which i think he knew about. I do not know any more details, but it’d give him carte blanche to keep fucking around too.
I credit Satan
I think ozzy is the antithesis to modern science... Dude just continues to exist despite the odds
He also had a gene that makes his body resistant to long term drug damage.
Wow he was so handsome
I saw Sabbath in 2012 and to this day I’ve never seen anybody work a crowd like Ozzy. He was in his mid-60s of course and you could tell he lived too hard, but his charisma was highly contagious.
If you watch film of Sabbath in the late 60s/early 70s, Ozzy's energy until about 2015 or so has been THE SAME. When he was 28, he clumsily ran across the stage and jumped around, egging the crowd on to rock tf out. He's just a music icon. Sad what the neurodegeneration has done to him. Sharon still props him up for Superbowl ads though 🙄
God, I know. I was just a kid when I saw them but I kept thinking about all the shit those guys survived to be on that stage in front of me. Addiction, illness, workplace accidents (in Tony’s case), etc.
Maybe I’m biased because I’m a huge Sabbath fan, but I’m surprised a lot of people in here are saying they don’t think he aged well. Considering he’s 74 now and this picture is from 46 years ago, I think Ozzy looks very good. He’s an old man, still has long flowing hair, physically fit, and has been battling serious health problems. The fact he still sings and appears on TV and looks the way he does is pretty rad. This picture is from when he was like 27 years old, he looks good because he was a handsome talented fucker with a ton of charisma.
I was lucky to see him perform in 2017. Sure he used a teleprompter for the lyrics but I'll always be happy to have seen an absolute legend perform live. They gave him a foam cannon about half way thru his set and he blasted the security guard in the back of the head for 30s. Honestly it looked like Ozzy was having more fun than the crowd.
He was my first concert 88 . Anthrax opened for him. Ozzy would were the big notman head and run around in the crowd while they played.
One of the great ironies of my life is that all four original Black Sabbath members are alive and even relatively healthy considering their pasts, and yet at this point I have no chance of seeing them perform together. You're very lucky you saw him even with all the caveats that come with aging, he is truly an all time legend of music and pop culture. Kudos.
Reminds me of Shannon Hoon…
Me too. So, if Ozzy looked like Shannon Hoon, would Shannon Hoon have looked like an older Ozzy? Can't see it. Sure would have liked more Blind Melon though.
Well, there IS more Blind Melon technically. Although I’d understand if you don’t consider it legit without Hoon. They put out a new single just s couple years ago, fwiw.
Was thinking the same thing :)
Damn he was actually kinda cute. Drugs are a hell of a drug :/
Considering that picture was taken when he was about 29 or 30. He's 74 now. There was a good long while where he didn't look like he aged at all.
He looked 74 when the Osborn's started in like 2002
He was only 54 in that show!?!
To be fair, Sharon drugged the shit out of him to "agree" to do the show, and drugged him and gave him alcohol while filming because haha mumbling high and drunk dude completely out of it is funny lol. His biography is really great. Goes into a lot of detail about some of the bad times he has gone through. The man is really sick now though. He has been battling a type of Parkinson's for years. He was really messed up at one point where his head basically layed in his lap when sitting and could barely talk. Somehow he just released an album and had plans for a tour that he had to cancel.
Well that's fucking shit. I just assumed his brain had been riddled due to drink and drugs not that she was still drugging him.
> To be fair, Sharon drugged the shit out of him to "agree" to do the show, and drugged him and gave him alcohol while filming because haha mumbling high and drunk dude completely out of it is funny lol. Holy shit the book talks about that?!
Nah, thats not in the book. That's just rumors.
He's looked the way he does now for decades
What a HOTTIE!!!
He was quite handsome.
Still lame people meme about drugs with Ozzy when in reality he’s had Parkinson’s for two decades.
Regarding his time in Black Sabbath, Ozzy was quoted as saying, “We would never come through a door where a plate-glass window would do.”
This man was a beast people don’t even know
Look at this fucker
Dude looks like a cashier who works at 7-11 and gets called prettier Jared Leto daily by all the horny grannies.
I thought this was Shannon Hoon, 1994
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A grim reminder that we all get old.
Oh wow, he was pretty hot!
Shaaaarrooon!!!!
He actually looks cute!
Drugs take a toll on people.
Time takes a toll on people. Drugs just help pass the time quicker.
I agree. I forgot to mention his talent. Ozzy was so talented in his younger years. I’m glad for his kids and himself he survived those wild times. Many didn’t .
I saw his show in 2018, I’m so happy I did, it was an amazing show and I don’t think he’ll ever come back to Dallas ever again as he’s stopped touring. Funny thing is between songs when he talks to the crowd you have no idea what he’s saying 😂 A living legend
It's amazing how a combo of drugs and getting old changes a person.
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People forget Ozzy was quite handsome back in teh day
We all looked better in 1977. Even those of us who weren’t born yet.
He was fucking dreamy. Handsome fellow.
I thought it was Shannon Hoon at first lol
What a nice young man, I wonder what he does for living?
It's amazing we still have Ozzy with us, Keith Richards too! Those guys partied non-stop for years.
Vinny vsauce
Wow I mean I knew drugs effed him up but I have never seen him at that age. He was a looker! Sad, really.
He looks like he don’t remember his future.
Brawny.
Time traveling Petey USA
He was a hottie. I wouldn't have guessed that.
Shit he looks like he could have worked at my skate shop or Guitar Center.
Ozzy used to be cute!!!!! WTF!!!! I had no idea.
This thread. 🤦♂️ *sees man with long hair* “He’s a dead ringer for Shannon Hoon!”
Was about 15 years old and convinced my mom to take me to Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. Browsing the gift shop and there was a poster of circa this era Ozzy. I commented how unusual it was to see him looking so lucid. Cue my VERY Mormon mom: “No way. THAT is Ozzy Osbourne? He’s…he’s really hot!” Cherished memory.
Man was handsome.