He'd tell me after he'd had a few beers 'John Michael Osbourne. Years later, Ozzy recalled "My father always said I would do something big one day. Ironically, one of his playground tormentors at the school was a boy named Anthony Iommi who would one day play a huge part in the development of Ozzy's subsequent career. Unfortunately, this led to teasing by his classmates who called him names like "Ozz-brain" in reference to his last name - this ultimately becoming "Ozzy" by which he is known to this day. While known as a rebel at school and not well regarded by his teachers, he showed some enthusiasm and talent for acting and singing in the school plays. John Osbourne was a pupil at Birchfield Road Secondary Modern School in Perry Barr. John's mom worked at the Lucas factory making car parts, while his father worked shifts as a skilled machine tool operator and ruled the rather crowded Osbourne household with an iron hand. The Osbournes were just one of many similar families living in that area, struggling to get by on a limited income.Īs one of six kids living in the two bedroom house, the young Osbourne's early years were tough if not traumatic.
He grew up in what was (and still is today) one of the roughest areas of Birmingham. John Michael Osbourne was born on December 3rd 1948 at 14 Lodge Road in Aston, Birmingham. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday" "You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison. While Black Sabbath's first ground-breaking album wasn't released until 1970, the origins of the group can be traced back to the early 1960s Birmingham beat scene with their musical roots coming directly from jazz, R&B and blues along with the psychedelic influences that followed later in the decade. This influential Birmingham group are regarded as the major originators of what became known as 'Heavy Metal', a style of music that typically includes a combination of doom-laden lyrics and distortion-heavy guitar riffs, all played at a volume previously unknown to those other than jet aircraft mechanics! It’s easy to get locked into your own little world.John "Ozzy" Osbourne lead vocal, harmonica
When you get to the hotel and you’ve got a day off, you don’t know what to do … sometimes you can’t just go out because there are fans around, or you just don’t feel like going out. He offered another reason: “I loved being with the band and doing gigs, but I hated the loneliness of the rest of it. I felt I had to draw the line somewhere because we couldn’t tour forever and then start writing a new album to tour again.” … When I spoke to my cancer professor, he said, ‘You shouldn’t be doing this to this extent.’ I started to worry constantly. I can’t complain about that because we had great hotels and the best of everything, but it was making me tired. “We were having late nights and flying all the time. “Basically, it was probably my fault,” he said. In the same interview, Iommi took the blame for Black Sabbath’s retirement in 2017, citing the strain of touring as he managed his cancer treatment. There were just always strange things happening to us back then.” “We’d be in the van, for example, and one of us would look out of the window and go, ‘Oh, look, there’s a fish-and-chip shop over there’ – and just as we’d say that, the lights would go out in the shop. “Things always seemed to happen to us that were quite weird,” he said. But the guitarist reflected that when strange events happened to the band, they weren’t always good experiences.
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