“It's supposed to be my farewell tour,” explains Ozzy Osbourne in a clip included in the Biography Television documentary above. He then gives his finger and adds: “We will see.” The year took place in 1993, and in fact, he turned out to have had much more to come for the former leader of Black Sabbath, the group that opened the valves – or perhaps Hellgates – Heavy Metal. After a depleted childhood spent playing in the post-war Birmingham bombs sites, Osbourne went from one job to another, including a failed passage during a slaughterhouse and another as a criminal. He then transformed the singer, receiving a system of sound system from his father and forming a group of blues with some local musicians. People pay a lot of money to see scary films, they had one day, so why not make scary music?
Time was at the end of the nineteen years, when listeners approached record albums like quasi-cinematics. Take their name Mario Bava anthology filmWho had released a few years ago, Black Sabbath met the expectations that many did not even know they had. Today, anyone can put a first album of black Sabbath and identify music as a heavy metal, not a world outside of their new variants.
But more than half a century ago, the world had never heard anything like it: there was the very intensified low-end of sound, with its distorted and distorted guitars likely to separate into energy riffs, as well as flamboyant themes. In addition to all this, Osbourne has managed to impregnate the words, even when delivered in a manner or Martged, with paradoxical clarity and exuberance.
Osbourne's existing trends to the disorder were sent to a successful overmultiplié by success. Anyone would have put money on the chances of his premature death, but he managed to return to both personal and professional disasters – many of them inflicted by his own Jekyll and Hyde personality, fueled by the substance – again and again. Hence the title of Biography episode, The nine lives of Ozzy Osbourne. For fans who missed the reign of Black Sabbath, there was Ozzfest, the Osbourne rock festival that occurred in the world between the mid -90s and the end of the twenties. The reality TV show Osbournes made him a pop-cultural icon loved even by viewers without interest his music. In the end, his real farewell did not come to happen before Black Sabbath Live LiveWho came as the culmination of a day festival organized in his hometown less than three weeks before his death. And although Ozzy Osbourne is now gone, the personality of the Prince of Darkness that he created will remain the animation spirit of Heavy Metal.
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