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Ozzy Osbourne: The Prince of Darkness, Randy Rhoads’ Plane Crash and the Saving Grace of a Strong Woman · DISGRACELAND

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Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.
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Speaker 2: The stories about Ozzy Osbourne are insane. He bit up
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Speaker 2: the heads of small winged creatures, urinated on historical landmarks,
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Speaker 2: catapulted raw meat at audiences, woke up in the middle
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Speaker 2: of a freeway after one of his all too frequent blackouts.
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Speaker 2: He had drugs delivered by the truckload. His tour bus
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Speaker 2: was cut in half by a low flying plane, and
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Speaker 2: it took the life of someone he loved like a brother.
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Speaker 2: And during his stints as frontman for Black Sabbath and
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Speaker 2: as a solo artist, from his highest highs to his
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Speaker 2: darkest lows, Ozzy Osbourne made great music. That music you
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Speaker 2: heard at the top of the show that wasn't great music.
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Speaker 2: That was a preset loop from my melotron called Melo
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Speaker 2: San Francisco Treat MK One. I played you that loop
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Speaker 2: because I can't afford the rights to cold Hearted by
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Speaker 2: Paula Abdul And why would I play you that specific
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Speaker 2: slice of hit and run cheese? Could I afford it?
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Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on
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Speaker 2: September third, nineteen eighty nine, And that was the day
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Speaker 2: that Ozzy Osbourne woke up in a prison cell, charged
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Speaker 2: with a heinous crime that he couldn't even remember committing.
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Speaker 2: On this episode, headless animals, soiled landmarks, truckloads of drugs,
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Speaker 2: and the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne. I'm Jake
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Speaker 2: Brennan and this is this graceland. Ozzy Osbourne was in
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Speaker 2: trouble again. He was always in trouble. Trouble had a
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Speaker 2: way of finding him, and when trouble would disappear, Ozzie
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Speaker 2: would go looking for trouble. This time he found it
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Speaker 2: and he was in deep. The thing was, he couldn't
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Speaker 2: even remember how he got into it in the first place.
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Speaker 2: He had no idea how long he'd been passed out
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Speaker 2: when he finally came to, or how in the hell
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Speaker 2: he wound up on his back laying in the median
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Speaker 2: strip of a busy stretch of a Memphis highway. His
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Speaker 2: head rang felt like it was in a vice. Each
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Speaker 2: time a car screened by the vice tightened and the
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Speaker 2: headlights burned into his eyes, he smashed his eyelids shut
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Speaker 2: and pressed his hands against his ears. Maybe if he
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Speaker 2: squeezed every part of his head, he just flattened the
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Speaker 2: whole thing, and the noise would stop, the pain would stop.
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Speaker 2: The pain didn't go anywhere. If anything, it intensified, and
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Speaker 2: then he felt another pain down below. Ozzy Osbourne was
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Speaker 2: thirty five years old, rock and rolls quote unquote, prince
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Speaker 2: of Darkness, unchallenged on his throne. He'd been living the
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Speaker 2: party hard lifestyle for more than a decade, now, first
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Speaker 2: as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, arguably the first
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Speaker 2: and greatest heavy metal band of all time, and now
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Speaker 2: out on his own as a successful solo artist. The
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Speaker 2: blackouts these were new, a sign of too much partying.
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Speaker 2: They started around the time that Randy died, but Ozzie
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Speaker 2: took it all in stride. It was like a marathon
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Speaker 2: runner getting leg cramps. You can't be a professional partier
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Speaker 2: for this long and not expect to black out here
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Speaker 2: and there along the way. As he lifted his head
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Speaker 2: off the ground, he felt the heaviness of the night
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Speaker 2: before blow Kannak Benny Hanna. He'd been out with the
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Speaker 2: Boys and Motley Cruze, the up and coming LA band
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Speaker 2: he had tapped to open his nineteen eighty four North
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Speaker 2: American tour, and the night featured the usual vices bottomless
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Speaker 2: bottles of booze, drugs, girls, more girls, and they were
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Speaker 2: knocking back shots at a Japanese steakhouse when Ozzie lost
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Speaker 2: all grip on reality, lost consciousness, and now he was here,
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Speaker 2: stuck inside of Memphis with the immobile blues again, in
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Speaker 2: the middle of the goddamn highway to boot Man. He
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Speaker 2: had to take a leak, but first he had to
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Speaker 2: get himself the hell out of the way. Ozzie bobbed
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Speaker 2: and weaved across three lanes of oncoming traffic to get
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Speaker 2: to the side of the highway, and may as well
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Speaker 2: have been thirty lanes. Felt like that arcade game with
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Speaker 2: the frog. His knees buckled as each giant hunk of
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Speaker 2: metal roared by. He closed his eyes, trusted his life
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Speaker 2: in the hands of fate, and made a run for it.
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Speaker 2: He made it, thankfully, surprisingly, and on the side of
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Speaker 2: the highway, he felt reinvigorated and mostly awake. He needed
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Speaker 2: a drink to take the edge off. A first, he
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Speaker 2: had a piss like a race horse. In nineteen eighty four,
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Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne was his own race horse. He'd been groomed
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Speaker 2: for this lifestyle with his black sabbath bandmates Tony Iomi,
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Speaker 2: Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne invented heavy metal Sabbath.
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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventies albums with Ozzi contained some of the heaviest
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Speaker 2: music of all time. The band deployed rhythm groove in
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Speaker 2: space via backbreaking guitar risks and skull crushingly simple power
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Speaker 2: that is to this day unmatched in its originality and authenticity.
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Speaker 2: Born of their native Birmingham, England's low hanging industrial heaviness,
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Speaker 2: Black Sabbath wrote the playbooks scores of heavy metal bands
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Speaker 2: since have followed, incorporating everything from the horror film inspiration
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Speaker 2: of their self titled debut to Ozzie's in congre beatles
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Speaker 2: esque vocal melodies that blanket most every one of their
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Speaker 2: albums to the protomash parts of Ozzy's last Sabbath record,
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Speaker 2: Never Say Die. Simply put, Black Sabbath rule. They still wore,
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Speaker 2: and in nineteen eighty four, Ozzy Osbourne was thoroughly enjoying
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Speaker 2: the fruits of his kingdom's labor on this particular morning,
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Speaker 2: though it would take more than a morning cup of
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Speaker 2: Joe to power rock and roll that was the heaviest
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Speaker 2: of the heavy. First it was pints of bitter lagger stout,
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Speaker 2: then speed pills, the stuff to get you going, the
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Speaker 2: stuff to keep you going, and that was just breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Whatever Ozzie took the day before wouldn't cut it the
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Speaker 2: next day. Every day the steaks were higher. By the
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Speaker 2: late seventies, Ozzie's daily regiment had escalated to a mix
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Speaker 2: of beer weed, cognac, speed, cough sere, barbituates, acid, and cocaine.
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Speaker 2: He called it waffle dust because it would keep you
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Speaker 2: up till breakfast. He did so much coke that he
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Speaker 2: tore his epiglottis in half, half severed. It hung down
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Speaker 2: the back of his throat, and nearly choked him to death.
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Speaker 2: Loaded on every conceivable substance, Ozzie felt the need to
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Speaker 2: defend whatever title or reputation he'd garnered up to that
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Speaker 2: point against the hard partying upstarts in Motley Cruze, who
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Speaker 2: aspired to take heavy metal bacchanalia to a level yet unseen.
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Speaker 2: But Ozzy was so gonzo that when it came to
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Speaker 2: his own antics, he wasn't even sure what was true
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Speaker 2: and what was a myth? Anymore, did he really snort
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Speaker 2: a line of ants off of a popsicle stick or
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Speaker 2: the side of the road. He couldn't remember, but it
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Speaker 2: sure sounded like something he would do. He did remember
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Speaker 2: when he bit the head off that dove. That really happened.
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Speaker 2: CBS Records, Headquarters, nineteen eighty one, Century City Suits, Execs,
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Speaker 2: Pierre Croney's squares, all of them, and Ozzy Osbourne making
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Speaker 2: like his hero John Lennon and starting over, starting a
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Speaker 2: solo career. That is, Black Sabbath were moving on without
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Speaker 2: him with that munchkin Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy had
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Speaker 2: something to prove. He had brought these doves to the meeting,
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Speaker 2: and he was supposed to release them as a gesture
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Speaker 2: of peace. And that was the gag. Let him fly
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Speaker 2: around the room in a real Kumbaya moment. Instead, ever
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Speaker 2: the entertainer, or ever the troublemaker, Ozzie pulled a real
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Speaker 2: Prince of Darkness power move. He sat on the arm
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Speaker 2: of one of the pr executive's chairs, slowly and surprisingly
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Speaker 2: pulled the dove from his pocket. Some of the suits
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Speaker 2: caught the move. What the fuck Ozzie had that gleam
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Speaker 2: in his eye, that schoolboy troublemaker smirk. He scanned the room.
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Speaker 2: He feeled attention, all eyes on him, and he loved it.
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Speaker 2: Was just like being on stage. What the fuck was
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Speaker 2: Ozzie about to do? His smirk widened into a shit
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Speaker 2: eating grin. He then slowly brought the dove from his
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Speaker 2: pocket to his mouth, opened his mouth, and bit down,
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Speaker 2: snapping the little bird's head clean off. A round of
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Speaker 2: gore induced moans from the conference room full of executives
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Speaker 2: in industry brass. Ozzie opened his mouth slowly, somehow maintaining
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Speaker 2: that troublemaker's smirk. The dove's head fell out and onto
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Speaker 2: the lap of the executive sitting to his left. The
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Speaker 2: CBS executives in the room couldn't believe what they'd just seen.
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Speaker 2: The feathers, the busted beat, the blood, all of it,
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Speaker 2: goateeeing around Ozzy Osbourne's mouth, and that shit eating grin,
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Speaker 2: and they promptly threw him out of the room instantly.
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Speaker 2: The story was legend, words spread throughout every boy's bathroom
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Speaker 2: in every high school in America. In between puffs of
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Speaker 2: Marlboro reds, Ozzy Osbourne was fucking crazy, damn right about
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Speaker 2: my copy of The Blizard of Oz. And then there
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Speaker 2: was the story about the bat. Ozzie did remember that
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Speaker 2: one that really happened. That was at the Veterans Auditorium
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Speaker 2: in Des Moines, January twentieth, nineteen eighty two, eight thousand
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Speaker 2: Rabbit Ozzy Osbourne fans Diary of a Madman toor Randy Rhodes,
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Speaker 2: Rudy Starzo, Tommy Aldridge standing in place behind Ozzie between songs.
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Speaker 2: The show was hot, the crowd hyped, and the bat
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Speaker 2: was hurled towards the stage by a fan. Ozzie grabbed
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Speaker 2: it quick, assumed it was a fake. The crowd went batshit.
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Speaker 2: No pun intended gonna do it? Really was Ozzie really
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Speaker 2: going to do it? Just like the rumored biting of
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Speaker 2: the dove. Ozzie wrapped his teeth around the bat's tiny
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Speaker 2: head and bit down. The crowd went crazy. Ozzie felt
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Speaker 2: that familiar sensation of winged animal blood running down his
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Speaker 2: chin and just went with it. Fuck, he thought, I've
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Speaker 2: done it again. Ozzie also remembered pissing on the side
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Speaker 2: of the Alamo. Also nineteen eighty two, Ozzie had gotten
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Speaker 2: good and drunk in his hotel room. His manager and
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Speaker 2: soon to be wife, Sharon Levy had left with all
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Speaker 2: of his clothes. She knew that the odds of Ozzie
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Speaker 2: finding trouble were greatly reduced when he was drunk in
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Speaker 2: a room and had no clothes to wear. But she
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Speaker 2: left one of her green evening dresses behind, and Ozzie
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Speaker 2: was nothing if not adaptable. So Ozzie put the dress on,
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Speaker 2: grabbed his bottle of Cavassier, and hit the streets of
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Speaker 2: San Antonio. He was scrambling past the Alimo like a
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Speaker 2: non committal drag queen when he felt his bladder. It
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Speaker 2: was sudden urging, and the Alamo was just right there,
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Speaker 2: just begging to be pissed on. Now, standing on the
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Speaker 2: side of the highway in Memphis, he looked at a
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Speaker 2: parked car. It like the sacred Alamo was just begging
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Speaker 2: to be pissed on. As well. As he undid his pants,
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Speaker 2: he thought of the Alamo, thought of the cops with
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Speaker 2: the Texan draws to put him in cuffs, the cramped
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Speaker 2: jail cell that he spent a few hours and before
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Speaker 2: he was inevitably turned loose, all for pissing on a
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Speaker 2: big chunk of limestone. To the Texans. Ozzie had messed
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Speaker 2: with a symbol of their heritage, representative of their bravery.
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Speaker 2: You don't mess with Texas and walk away. As Ozzy
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Speaker 2: pissed on that car in Memphis, he remembered the almong
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Speaker 2: he snapped too when the blue lights came on and
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Speaker 2: a quick whoop of a siren, Son of a bitch.
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Speaker 2: The car he was relieving himself on was an unmarked
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Speaker 2: police car. Of all the roads in Memphis, of all
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Speaker 2: the cars sitting on the side of the road, he
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Speaker 2: had to pick this one. Like Ozzy, this car had
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Speaker 2: trouble written all over it. Ozzie knew trouble from an
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Speaker 2: early age. Sometimes it was the only thing that kept
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Speaker 2: him going. In Aston, a bombed out ward of Birmingham, England,
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Speaker 2: he grew up poor, one of six kids. He was
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Speaker 2: born John Osborne, named after his father, but his father
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Speaker 2: was never called John. They all called him Jack, and
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Speaker 2: his son followed Sue with his own nickname. The kids
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Speaker 2: at school shortened his last name and simply dubbed him Ozzie.
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Speaker 2: Aston was a factory town, the sort of black hole
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Speaker 2: that would consume its inhabitants who weren't lucky enough to escape.
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Speaker 2: People worked and then they died often. They died because
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Speaker 2: they worked so much. The Osbourne household, like many in Aston,
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Speaker 2: had no indoor bathroom, and when they did visit the
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Speaker 2: outdoor facilities, they used newspaper instead of toilet paper because
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Speaker 2: it was cheaper, and they had money for pants and boots,
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Speaker 2: but not for underwear and shoes. Ozzie hated school. He
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Speaker 2: was dyslexic had difficulty paying attention. In nineteen sixty four,
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Speaker 2: when he was fifteen, he left school and entered the workforce.
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Speaker 2: For two years, he worked as a plumber, then in
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Speaker 2: an industrial plant that made car parts, then as a
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Speaker 2: car horn tuner, then in a slaughterhouse where he dealt
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Speaker 2: with the sloppy innards of sheep's stomachs. After scooping gouts
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Speaker 2: at the factory, he'd popped dexogeren and stay out dancing
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Speaker 2: to soul music in clubs. Like every other teen in
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Speaker 2: the UK, he discovered the beetles and became obsessed. Music
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Speaker 2: became an escape path, a way to possibly break out
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Speaker 2: of the CPA toned humdrum beatdown of life in Birmingham.
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Speaker 2: He decided he would make like a beetle, find a
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Speaker 2: ticket to ride to get the hell out of there.
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Speaker 2: He slicked his hair back with soap and gave himself
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Speaker 2: his first tattoo with Indian ink and a needle o
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Speaker 2: z z y across the knuckles of his left hand.
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Speaker 2: In his mind, he was the badass Beetle. Every time
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Speaker 2: he looked down at his fists, he'd be reminded that
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Speaker 2: he wasn't long for Birmingham and if he didn't want
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Speaker 2: to be testing car horns for the rest of his life,
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Speaker 2: he needed to find out what lay beyond the gloomy
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Speaker 2: shadow of his ass in neighborhood. But first trouble would
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Speaker 2: find him seventeen years old, too much time on his hands.
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Speaker 2: Late at night, he made his way through the window
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Speaker 2: of a shop up the street from his folk's house.
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Speaker 2: He didn't even bring a flashlight. He couldn't see a
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Speaker 2: thing in the dark, but the sensation was thrilling. He
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Speaker 2: stumbled around, arms outstretched to guide him. He felt a
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Speaker 2: rack full of clothes and took as much as he
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Speaker 2: could and make a pretty penny on the resale market.
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Speaker 2: As soon as he made it home, he wanted that
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Speaker 2: high again, wanted to experience it all over, that high
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Speaker 2: of fumbling around in a strange place and snatching something
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Speaker 2: that wasn't his. The next night, he brought a flashlight
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Speaker 2: and back inside the story shone the light on a
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Speaker 2: twenty four inch Telly, a thing of beauty, the kind
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Speaker 2: of opulent picture box that a family like his can
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Speaker 2: only dream of. But the thing was like a twenty
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Speaker 2: four inch box of bricks. As he tried to climb
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Speaker 2: over a wall behind the store, he lost his grip
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Speaker 2: and fell to the ground, and the TV came down
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Speaker 2: straight on his chest with the thud and pinned him there.
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Speaker 2: And once he pushed the set off his belly, he
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Speaker 2: decided it wasn't worth it. He'd leave the TV behind,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't the only thing he left behind. His
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Speaker 2: fingerprints were all over that TV and all over that store.
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Speaker 2: As a result, he spent a few months at Winston Green,
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Speaker 2: a notoriously violent and anarchic Birmingham prison, while his heroes
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Speaker 2: the Beatles released Revolver Ozzie served prison food to child molesters.
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Speaker 2: It was too much, too much trouble. He needed a
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Speaker 2: new idea, and he needed it fast. When Ozzie took
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Speaker 2: an ad out in the local paper and formed a
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Speaker 2: band that would be called the Polka Tuk blues band
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Speaker 2: and then called Earth before settling on Black Sabbath. It
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Speaker 2: saved him from a life of crime. It was the
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Speaker 2: first time music saved his life and it wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: the last. Sabbath was not only democratic, they were pragmatic.
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Speaker 2: All four members were equals and there was no frontman.
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Speaker 2: Guitarist Tony Iomi summoned the heaviest of riffs. Drummer Bill
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Speaker 2: Warred brought the wisdom of the experienced musician in the
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Speaker 2: pummeling beats. Bassist Geezer Butler, a vegetarian who was into
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Speaker 2: contemporary politics, and Alistair Crowley naturally wrote the lyrics. Ozzie
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Speaker 2: was the melody man. It was a true wizard's brew.
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Speaker 2: For a while, Sabbath's fan base was one hundred percent bloke.
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Speaker 2: It's not like they were singing pretty pop dities with
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Speaker 2: well croffed dues and come hither stairs. They were Birmingham
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Speaker 2: boys and they looked it sullen withdrawn, unwashed and in
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Speaker 2: need of vitam a d. Black Sabbath's self titled debut
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Speaker 2: was released on Friday the thirdieenth, nineteen seventy. The superstitious
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Speaker 2: release date only added to the band's mystical alert the
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Speaker 2: whole prince of darkness role that Ozzie wouldn't have it,
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Speaker 2: and eventually Embrace was more of a marketing employer than
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Speaker 2: anything else. The band weren't exactly thrilled about the inverted
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Speaker 2: cross and the inside artwork of their debut, but it
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Speaker 2: meant that the band attracted a particular type fans of
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Speaker 2: the occult of paganism, of fantasy novels and horror films.
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Speaker 2: Dennis Wheatley bela Lugosi the dark Shit. Sabbath was approached
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Speaker 2: by Satanists in black magic, dabblers anton LaVey heads, so
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Speaker 2: the band started wearing crucifixes around their necks to ward
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Speaker 2: off any curses that may have been placed on them.
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Speaker 2: Ozzie's dad made them for the band to protect them.
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Speaker 2: Ozzy didn't mince words with the would be hexers. He
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Speaker 2: told them straight up that the only evil spirits he
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Speaker 2: cared about were the ones that were at least eighty proof,
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Speaker 2: and gave him a hell of a buzz. When Sabbath's
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Speaker 2: second album, Paranoid, was an unexpected hit, suddenly it wasn't
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Speaker 2: just Pentagram wearing blockheads who came around. On their first
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Speaker 2: tour of America, Sabbath was swimming in a sea of groupies,
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Speaker 2: at least a rooftop pool of groupies. At a holiday
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Speaker 2: inn in California, Ozzy ascended to the hotel's roof to
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Speaker 2: find a veritable orgy in full swing. So while making
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Speaker 2: music destined for rock's hallowed cannon, Black Sabbath also busied
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Speaker 2: themselves with drafting a blueprint for the cliched sex, drugs,
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Speaker 2: and rock and roll lifestyle, and by nineteen seventy two
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Speaker 2: the band was fully out of control. They decided to
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Speaker 2: record their fourth album in Los Angeles and rented two
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Speaker 2: thousand and two three Stradella Drive in the exclusive neighborhood
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Speaker 2: of bel Air. The opulent mansion was owned by John DuPont,
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Speaker 2: air to the DuPont Fortune and twenty years later, the
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Speaker 2: convicted murderer of an Olympic wrestler. Six bedrooms, seven bathrooms,
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Speaker 2: one swimming pool, a movie theater. The place was extravagance incarnate,
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Speaker 2: and Sabbath looked forward to defiling it, and they were
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Speaker 2: there for two months while they recorded what would become
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Speaker 2: Volume four, a record they wanted to name Snowblind, which
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Speaker 2: was also one of the songs they recorded, one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest songs they ever recorded. Snowblind is a succinct
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Speaker 2: encapsulation of that particular moment in the band's lifespan. Spent
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Speaker 2: high to the gills on cocaine. The record cost about
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Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars to make, but the cocaine cost them
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Speaker 2: closer to seventy five thousand dollars. You couldn't walk into
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Speaker 2: the next room without tripping over another cardboard box full
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Speaker 2: of the little sealed vials. Cocaine was delivered whenever they
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Speaker 2: needed it, which was pretty much always. Occasionally they'd find
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Speaker 2: their way to the record plant in La to make music.
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Speaker 2: And for a band that recorded the entirety of their
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Speaker 2: first three albums and what was less than a total
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Speaker 2: of three weeks, having two months to work on one
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Speaker 2: record was both an eternity and a luxury. It was
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Speaker 2: hard to get keep track of all the people who
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Speaker 2: came by Stradella Drive. And there was one guy who
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Speaker 2: hung around all the time. He didn't fit in. He
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Speaker 2: had great posture, press suits, dark sunglasses, didn't say much.
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Speaker 2: Was always there when the coke truck pulled up. It
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Speaker 2: was too obvious Ozzi thought, he's a nark. What if
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Speaker 2: he's a nark, why was any more undercover look at him?
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Speaker 2: He clearly was not one of them. Ozzie continued to
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Speaker 2: hoover lines, only he'd do it with one eye cock
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Speaker 2: to the side, never letting the sunglasses and suit fucker
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Speaker 2: out of his sight. His paranoia was validated on the
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Speaker 2: day he heard sirens lapd They were coming up the
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Speaker 2: road fast, and that polished nark with a great posture,
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Speaker 2: he made them. He must have made the whole mansion.
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Speaker 2: Ozzie knew he should have trusted his gut, so Ozzie
20:47
Speaker 2: went into full panic mode. He grabbed the tiny vials
20:49
Speaker 2: and the baggies and dashed into one of the seven bathrooms.
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Speaker 2: The vials and baggies were turned upside down, powder and
20:55
Speaker 2: grass at the porcelain. He slapped at the toilet handle
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Speaker 2: and it all swirled away. He grabbed another handful of
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Speaker 2: drugs and those followed. They started down, and then there
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Speaker 2: was a wet clunk, and the toilet's guts and the
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Speaker 2: murky coke weed water burbled back up. Ozzie had clogged
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Speaker 2: the damn thing. Ozzie slapped at the handle some more,
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Speaker 2: but the water in the bowl kept rising. He heard
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Speaker 2: the sirens get louder. Any minute now the cops would
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Speaker 2: be banging on that front door, and there were six
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Speaker 2: more bathrooms. Ozzie lumbered out into the living room and
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Speaker 2: found six unsuspecting roadies paralyzed with fear. He yelled at
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Speaker 2: each of them to grab a handful of stash, split
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Speaker 2: up and work as a team. Pick a bathroom, find
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Speaker 2: a working toilet, flush at all of it. They all
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Speaker 2: snapped to attention, took as much as they could in
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Speaker 2: their arms, and fled in opposite directions. There was still
21:43
Speaker 2: too much stash left over. Ozzie heard tires pull up outside,
21:47
Speaker 2: heard the slam of at least four car doors in
21:50
Speaker 2: a quick succession. Shit, they were going to be cooked
21:52
Speaker 2: as soon as Elie's finest walked in through the door,
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Speaker 2: and the cocaine had to go. As the cops caught
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Speaker 2: them with this much blow, they'd never tour again. Ozzie
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Speaker 2: made a split decision. Band member, crew member, groupie, friend
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Speaker 2: of a friend of a friend. It didn't matter who
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Speaker 2: you were. If you were in the room, you were
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Speaker 2: now part of phase two. The cocaine had to disappear
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Speaker 2: up their noses. Now they all dropped to the knees,
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Speaker 2: sealed vials popped open, piles of waffle dust hit the floor,
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Speaker 2: nose snorted, socked, sniffled, presto, and the blow was burning
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Speaker 2: holes in all of their sinus cavities. When they realized
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Speaker 2: the cops were only there simply to respond to an
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Speaker 2: emergency call switch that had been tripped, the police didn't
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Speaker 2: even make it through the door. The crazy train didn't
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Speaker 2: slow down, and a few years later, in nineteen seventy eight,
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Speaker 2: Black Sabbath grew tired of Ozzie's antics, which was nuts
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Speaker 2: because the whole band was just as engaged in the destructive,
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Speaker 2: unholy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Tony
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Speaker 2: Bill and Geezer forced Ozzie out. Sabbath would continue on,
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Speaker 2: but for the first time in almost a decade, Ozzy
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Speaker 2: Osbourne was out on his own defend for himself. When
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Speaker 2: it came to the kind of trouble he could get into.
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Speaker 2: The possibilities were endless. We'll be right back after this
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Speaker 2: word word word. Randy Rhodes hated planes. They made him dizzy, nauseous, anxious.
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Speaker 2: He was happiest with his feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Speaker 2: He was grounded. Just the kind of guy that he was.
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Speaker 2: Randy was a lot of things that his boss, Oucy Osbourne,
23:31
Speaker 2: clearly was not. Randy didn't drink or do drugs. His
23:35
Speaker 2: biggest vices were Coca cola and cigarettes. He was a
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Speaker 2: classically trained musician. He could read and write music. He
23:41
Speaker 2: didn't waste time between shows chasing skirt and snorting blow.
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Speaker 2: He tutored kids who were just learning how to play.
23:47
Speaker 2: And he's sure as shit wasn't a thrill seeker. So
23:50
Speaker 2: why did he get on that plane? And why did
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Speaker 2: the tours makeup and costume artist Rachel Youngblood join him?
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Speaker 2: She had a heart condition and it was just as
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Speaker 2: likely to not get on an airplane as Randy was.
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Speaker 2: All of these questions and Moore raced through Ozzie's head
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Speaker 2: in March nineteen eighty two. The horrific aftermath of the
24:08
Speaker 2: crash played over and over like a loop in his brain.
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Speaker 2: But here he was standing in a field in the
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Speaker 2: middle of Leesburg, Florida, the tour bus nearly cut in half,
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Speaker 2: the wreckage of a small plane smoldering and choking the
24:22
Speaker 2: sky with thick smoke. Part of a wing found its
24:26
Speaker 2: way to a house nearby which was on fire. Flames, smoke, chaos,
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Speaker 2: and Rachel and Randy were dead. Randy Rhodes was one
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Speaker 2: of two people that saved Ozzie's life when it really
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Speaker 2: needed saving. The first was Sharon. Sharon believed in Ozzy
24:44
Speaker 2: had a time when he didn't believe in himself. His
24:46
Speaker 2: first marriage was falling apart, his music career was on hold.
24:51
Speaker 2: Sharon believed in him enough to take him on as
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Speaker 2: a client at her father, Don Arden's management firm. She
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Speaker 2: helped him reconstruct his identity after he sacked by Sabbath.
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Speaker 2: Sharon had the future locked in her gaze. She had
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Speaker 2: a crystal ball. She would take Ozzy and make him
25:07
Speaker 2: bigger than he ever was in Black Sabbath. Her gaze
25:10
Speaker 2: went so far into the future she saw her life
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Speaker 2: with Ozzy. He would leave his first wife and take
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Speaker 2: Sharon as his bride, and with Sharon's guidance, solo Ozzie
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Speaker 2: would dominate. Sharon introduced Ozzy to Randy. Ozzy thought Randy
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Speaker 2: was so pretty that he had to ask point blank
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Speaker 2: if he was a dude. Randy was used to it
25:30
Speaker 2: at twenty two. He rocked impressively, plumed long blonde hair,
25:34
Speaker 2: played a flying v painted in polka dots, and when
25:37
Speaker 2: he was still a teenager, he co founded Quiet Riot
25:40
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. He was the prettiest guitar slinger on
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Speaker 2: the strip, and he was immensely talented. All it took
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Speaker 2: was Randy to warm up with rudimentary scales on his guitar.
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Speaker 2: Ozzie wept, Randy was hired. Finally, Ozzy was weeping about
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Speaker 2: something besire himself. He had spent the majority of a
26:03
Speaker 2: two month period feeling sorry for himself in a room
26:06
Speaker 2: at Le Park Hotel in West Hollywood, and the Prince
26:09
Speaker 2: of Darkness went real dark. The booze and the coke
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Speaker 2: were delivered around the clock. He came to expect knocks
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Speaker 2: in the door, and the sun from the outside world
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Speaker 2: would brutally invade the room, and there stood a dealer
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Speaker 2: bringing him the next round of coke, or a groupie
26:23
Speaker 2: looking for a romp in the sack with a heavy
26:25
Speaker 2: metal has been the one day a knock came on
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Speaker 2: the door that sounded different than the rest. Ozzie couldn't
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Speaker 2: tell if it was a hasher with a bag of
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Speaker 2: drugs or a horny co ed. It was neither. It
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Speaker 2: was Sharon quick, sharp to the point she told Ozzie
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Speaker 2: to get his shit together. With Sharon managing him and
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Speaker 2: Randy playing Blistering Leeds by his side, Ozzy Osbourne was unstoppable.
26:51
Speaker 2: His first solo record, nineteen eighties, Blizzard of Oz was
26:54
Speaker 2: certified gold platinum. The year after that, one of its singles,
26:58
Speaker 2: crazy Train, peaked at nine on the mainstream rock charts.
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Speaker 2: In the US. Diary of a Madman followed. The next year,
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Speaker 2: it was another resounding success, Flying High again, the leadoff
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Speaker 2: single went to number two on the US charts. It
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Speaker 2: was just like Sharon had envisioned. Ozzie was on top.
27:17
Speaker 2: His reputation as a crazy performer was the tops two.
27:21
Speaker 2: His insane stage show included a mock execution, a catapult
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Speaker 2: that flung raw meat at the audience. The aforementioned occasional
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Speaker 2: animal who was unknowingly beheaded. The newly formed Peta threw
27:32
Speaker 2: a fit about that last bit, so Ozzie assured them
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Speaker 2: that the bad at least was already dead when he
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Speaker 2: caught it. That beef was squashed decades later, and now
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Speaker 2: Ozzie is one of Pete's animal loving spokesmen. If you
27:45
Speaker 2: can believe that, and the Blizzard of Oz band toured
27:48
Speaker 2: melted faces and rendered Black Sabbath nearly irrelevant. Ozzie was
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Speaker 2: the future. It was on that tour in March of
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two that Randy and Ossie in the back
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Speaker 2: of the bus. Randy told Ozzy he was tired of touring.
28:05
Speaker 2: He was ready to wrap it up, start a new chapter,
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Speaker 2: maybe go to college. Randy wanted off Ozzy's crazy train
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Speaker 2: sooner than later. Ozzie told Randy they talk about it
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Speaker 2: another time, poured himself another Gin and tonic, and then
28:17
Speaker 2: passed out. Ozzie awoke the next morning to the sound
28:24
Speaker 2: of metal on metal, the sound of a quick demonic screech,
28:27
Speaker 2: the sound of life going off the rails, and then
28:30
Speaker 2: he could feel the world rumbling around him from below,
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Speaker 2: something low and mean to counter what was up top,
28:36
Speaker 2: and his ears a high pitched death squill. Tonight us
28:39
Speaker 2: on ten and there were flames. He could feel them.
28:42
Speaker 2: It was smoked. It was filling his nostrils. His first
28:45
Speaker 2: thought was that a houseman dropped square under his tour bus.
28:48
Speaker 2: His head was heavy, his eyes were bloodshot. The gin
28:51
Speaker 2: from the night before still coated his tongue. He smelled gasoline,
28:55
Speaker 2: smelled something burning, smelled death, destruction. Ozzie was dazed, hungover, panicked.
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Speaker 2: It was like he was in a waking dream, some
29:04
Speaker 2: sort of post traumatic sabbath stress slash apocalyptic vision come
29:08
Speaker 2: to life. He stumbled around the wreckage, found Sharon, found
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Speaker 2: the other guys in the van, but no Randy, no Rachel.
29:15
Speaker 2: They were gone. What in the hell, Ozzie wondered had
29:19
Speaker 2: just happened? Only later did he find out. The tourist
29:25
Speaker 2: bus driver Andrew Aycock, pulled to Casey Jones the night before.
29:30
Speaker 2: He was driving high on cocaine, so doped up to
29:33
Speaker 2: endure he would stay up all night to keep the
29:35
Speaker 2: tour rolling on to the next city, but the ac
29:38
Speaker 2: and the bus was on the fritz. And Andrew stopped
29:40
Speaker 2: at a bus depot to see if he could get
29:41
Speaker 2: the cooler working, while half the tour slept off their highs.
29:45
Speaker 2: The bus depot and Liesburg also had an airstrip, and
29:48
Speaker 2: as a surprise to those who were awake, Andrew revealed
29:51
Speaker 2: he was a pilot. There was a Beachcraft Bonanza, a
29:54
Speaker 2: single engine six seater plane parked the depot and they
29:58
Speaker 2: were making good time. Andrew looked at the Beachcraft Bonanza
30:02
Speaker 2: and then back to Randy and Rachel, who were stretching
30:04
Speaker 2: their legs outside. How about it, he asked, want to
30:08
Speaker 2: get up high the friendly skies and they'd go up
30:11
Speaker 2: and come back down in a flash, and then they
30:13
Speaker 2: could get on with the tour. The Beachcraft Bonanza airplane
30:17
Speaker 2: has an infamous nickname. The Doctor Killer is referred to
30:21
Speaker 2: as such due to a high number of high profile
30:24
Speaker 2: crashes involving wealthy hobby flyers who underestimated the power of
30:28
Speaker 2: the small plane and after losing control of the aircraft,
30:31
Speaker 2: wound up dead. Andrew's impromptu flight would only add to
30:36
Speaker 2: the plane's reputation, and they climbed into the Doctor Killer
30:40
Speaker 2: with Andrew with the wheel, and they were airborne quickly
30:43
Speaker 2: didn't ascend too high. Before too long, the plane looped
30:47
Speaker 2: back around, adjusted its course and began to descend straight
30:50
Speaker 2: for the idling bus. As soon as they got close
30:54
Speaker 2: close enough to see through the windows at the sleeping
30:56
Speaker 2: tour crew inside, they knew they were in trouble. The
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Speaker 2: Killer was coming in hot. Andrew pulled up on the yoke.
31:03
Speaker 2: The whole plane shook as it struggled to rise. The
31:05
Speaker 2: plane's wing dug into the top of the tour bus,
31:08
Speaker 2: bending the bus in half. The collision happened within the
31:14
Speaker 2: blink of an eye, and the destruction was swift death
31:18
Speaker 2: from above. Did Andrew try to clip the bus as
31:22
Speaker 2: a joke, just another prank pulled by a tour full
31:24
Speaker 2: of pranksters? Or was he just careless, tired from driving,
31:28
Speaker 2: tired from being high, icarous, underestimating the doctor killer. Andrew
31:34
Speaker 2: Aycock died in the crash along with Randy Rhodes and
31:37
Speaker 2: Rachel Youngblood, and took any answers down with him. To
31:41
Speaker 2: this day, no one knows what happened. Some think it
31:44
Speaker 2: was the result of a careless or a wasted bus
31:47
Speaker 2: driver turned an airplane pilot out on a lark, the
31:50
Speaker 2: deadliest of fuck ups. Ozzie was devastated. He had brought
31:55
Speaker 2: trouble to Randy, put him in the bus with Andrew
31:58
Speaker 2: high on cocaine. Put Randy in the crosshairs was almost
32:02
Speaker 2: too much to bear. Ozzie wasn't sure he could move on,
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Speaker 2: but he had to try, probably easiest, just to forget it.
32:09
Speaker 2: All get it off his mind. Booze would help, so
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Speaker 2: would pills and blow. He wouldn't remember much of anything,
32:16
Speaker 2: including why years later he'd wake up alone in a
32:19
Speaker 2: cold jail cell. The first thing Ozzie Osbourne saw the
32:40
Speaker 2: morning of September third, nineteen eighty nine was a puddle
32:43
Speaker 2: of his own drool on the floor there, right next
32:47
Speaker 2: to where his chin rested against the concrete. His eyes
32:51
Speaker 2: blinked open. His lids were thrown back by the rapid
32:54
Speaker 2: movement beneath them, so rapid, so forceful, that his lids
32:57
Speaker 2: couldn't keep things under control anymore. Opened under extreme protest,
33:02
Speaker 2: Ozzie was thrust violently from a dream to this. This
33:06
Speaker 2: wasn't a dream. If it was a dream, it would
33:09
Speaker 2: be a nightmare. He was most definitely awake, alive. He
33:14
Speaker 2: lifted his head, looked around. He was in a small,
33:16
Speaker 2: cramped jail cell. And the floor was dirty, sticky, soiled,
33:21
Speaker 2: and it smelled like piss and Vomit smelled like the
33:23
Speaker 2: raw me catapult he used on stage after a show
33:26
Speaker 2: and before they hoist it down. He heard a scream
33:30
Speaker 2: from a deep, gravelly voice, bounced down the hallway. Heard
33:33
Speaker 2: the sound of something hard, rapping against metal bars, the
33:36
Speaker 2: clang of doors ringing shut and clamoring open. What the
33:41
Speaker 2: hell am I doing here? Ozzie thought to himself. It
33:44
Speaker 2: heard his brain to ask himself a simple question. Like
33:47
Speaker 2: the devil himself had smacked him upside the head and
33:50
Speaker 2: left him to rock alone on a dank, sticky, pistained floor.
33:54
Speaker 2: What had he done? Knocked someone's block off in a
33:57
Speaker 2: bar fight, liberated the head off another winged mammal? Did
34:00
Speaker 2: he murder someone? He genuinely had no clue. His head pounded,
34:05
Speaker 2: his ears rang, He called out for help, and the
34:07
Speaker 2: sound of his voice just echoed down the dark hallway,
34:12
Speaker 2: and the blackouts were still happening. It was one thing
34:15
Speaker 2: when Ozzy was the only one affected by his comotose detours,
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Speaker 2: when it was just his life on the line, when
34:21
Speaker 2: he woke up in the Median Strip in Memphis, when
34:23
Speaker 2: he passed out cold on the tour bus. It took
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Speaker 2: him a while to get to this point. Shortly after
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Speaker 2: Randy's death, Ozzy had a breakdown. Once the IV drip
34:33
Speaker 2: of sedatives stabilized him, he went right back to the
34:35
Speaker 2: hard stuff. He and his first wife were finally divorced
34:40
Speaker 2: he married Sharon, but even their courtship was rocky. Ozzie
34:44
Speaker 2: would go full Ozzie drink too much, snore too much,
34:47
Speaker 2: sleep around too much, and Sharon would throw our engagement
34:50
Speaker 2: ring into the wind, and they went through over a
34:52
Speaker 2: dozen rings before they got hitched. Sharon had Ozzy check
34:55
Speaker 2: into the Betty Ford clinic. As soon as he checked out,
34:58
Speaker 2: he was back on the hunt for trouble. He learned
35:01
Speaker 2: how to be sneaky. He hit vodka bottles in the oven.
35:04
Speaker 2: He installed outdoor lights in his garden, not because he
35:07
Speaker 2: caught the bug to plant carrots and beans at all hours.
35:10
Speaker 2: The lights were there so he could find the bottles
35:11
Speaker 2: of boozy had buried in the vegetable beds when he
35:13
Speaker 2: went searching for them late at night. And then he
35:16
Speaker 2: tested positive for HIV. He didn't actually have HIV, but
35:21
Speaker 2: his immune system was so busted from all the alcohol
35:24
Speaker 2: and drugs that it thought he had the virus. The
35:27
Speaker 2: doctors had to run the test a few times to
35:29
Speaker 2: make any sense of it. The lab had never seen
35:31
Speaker 2: results like these, near fatal amounts of alcohol and cocaine
35:35
Speaker 2: in his blood stream, and never mind his body thinking
35:38
Speaker 2: it had HIV. His body had no right to be
35:40
Speaker 2: functioning at that moment. Ozzie's body was blacking out on him,
35:44
Speaker 2: just like his mind. Through it all, he remained a
35:49
Speaker 2: vital cog in the American heavy metal machine, next to
35:52
Speaker 2: blistering albums by Metallica, Judas Priest, and Slayer. His nineteen
35:56
Speaker 2: eighty six record The Ultimate Sin was his high as
35:59
Speaker 2: selling to date. It's single Shot in the Dark, was
36:02
Speaker 2: an instant metal classic. His next album, nineteen eighty eight,
36:06
Speaker 2: It's No Rest for the Wicked, peaked at number thirteen
36:09
Speaker 2: on the Billboard two hundred. The eighties were big for Ozzy,
36:12
Speaker 2: but damned if he could remember any of it, just
36:16
Speaker 2: like he couldn't remember why he had woken up in
36:18
Speaker 2: a puddle of his own spit and a jail cell
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Speaker 2: on this foggy morning in September nineteen eighty nine. He
36:25
Speaker 2: couldn't remember the night before, walking down the stairs in
36:28
Speaker 2: nothing but tidy whities, sitting next to Sharon on the couch.
36:32
Speaker 2: He couldn't remember telling her he had no choice but
36:35
Speaker 2: to kill her, to end her life right then and there,
36:39
Speaker 2: in the moment, it was clear as day Sharon was
36:42
Speaker 2: gonna die. Ozzy was going to kill her that he
36:45
Speaker 2: knew what he had to do. Put his hands around
36:47
Speaker 2: her throat and squeeze. Was it the cocaine talking or
36:51
Speaker 2: the Hennessy? Maybe it was the gin or the pills.
36:54
Speaker 2: Could be the pills, but was it the uppers of
36:56
Speaker 2: the downers? And there was no reason, no real reason,
36:59
Speaker 2: anyway to lash out at Sharon. It wasn't Ozzie talking.
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Speaker 2: It was Trouble as usual. Trouble was in control and
37:07
Speaker 2: it took over his body told Ozzie went to stand
37:09
Speaker 2: and how to stand? So then he stood up straddled Sharon.
37:14
Speaker 2: Sharon screamed, and then Ozzie got his hands around her throat,
37:16
Speaker 2: and suddenly she couldn't scream anymore. She struggled to bring
37:19
Speaker 2: her arms up to Ozzie's face. Her nails went right
37:22
Speaker 2: for his eyes. The weight of Ozzie's half naked body
37:25
Speaker 2: pressed down on his wife. He watched her fight for
37:27
Speaker 2: her breath, fight to toss him on to the floor,
37:29
Speaker 2: and then just like that, he blacked out, fully out.
37:36
Speaker 2: The next thing he knew, he was pleading with a
37:38
Speaker 2: prison guard to tell him why he was behind bars.
37:41
Speaker 2: The guard looked at him in disgust and ran it
37:43
Speaker 2: down simple. You're an asshole. You attempted to kill your wife.
37:47
Speaker 2: Attempted murder by strangulation. Ozzie had tried to kill Sharon.
37:54
Speaker 2: He couldn't believe what he was hearing. After thirty six
37:58
Speaker 2: hours alone with his own thought, Ozzie was sent to court.
38:02
Speaker 2: The judge let him go on bail, but he had
38:04
Speaker 2: to agree to three ground roles. He couldn't talk to Sharon,
38:08
Speaker 2: he couldn't go home, and he had to go back
38:10
Speaker 2: to rehab immediately. He channeled Randy Rhoades while in rehab
38:15
Speaker 2: and cut his vices back to smokes in Coca Cola.
38:18
Speaker 2: After a few months, Sharon paid him a visit to
38:21
Speaker 2: let him know that she was dropping the charges. She
38:23
Speaker 2: knew that was an Ozzie who had attacked her. It
38:26
Speaker 2: was something someone truly different, something truly dark, something that
38:31
Speaker 2: had taken over. It was trouble. Wasn't Ozzy Osbourne. Just
38:36
Speaker 2: like she had seen the promise in Ozzie almost a
38:38
Speaker 2: decade prior, hold up in a hotel room with the
38:41
Speaker 2: shades drawn, she saw it again here in rehab. She
38:44
Speaker 2: would stick it out with him, but he'd have to
38:46
Speaker 2: make more music with Sharon. At the helm managing his career.
38:50
Speaker 2: Ozzie would have to keep making great music. Sharon wasn't playing.
38:54
Speaker 2: Sharon Osbourne was all business, music and the influence of
38:59
Speaker 2: a strong woman, his wife, his manager. The combination had
39:02
Speaker 2: saved his life before and it would save his life again.
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Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne climbed back on top. No more tears, Mama,
39:18
Speaker 2: I'm coming home Ozfest. With Sharon Osborne and the music
39:23
Speaker 2: guiding him, Ozzy Osbourne would never again let trouble lead
39:27
Speaker 2: him all the way astray lead him to total disgrace.
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