I Am Ozzy
Posted on February 16th, 2010
By Ozzy Osbourne
Average customer review: 
I Am Ozzy
“They’ve said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: ‘He bit the head off a bat.’ Yes. ‘He bit the head off a dove.’ Yes. But then you hear things like, ‘Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn’t perform until he’d killed fifteen puppies . . .’ Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I’ve got eighteen of the f**king things at home. I’ve killed a few cows in my time, mind you. And the chickens. I shot the chickens in my house that night.
It haunts me, all this crazy stuff. Every day of my life has been an event. I took lethal combinations of booze and drugs for thirty f**king years. I survived a direct hit by a plane, suicidal overdoses, STDs. I’ve been accused of attempted murder. Then I almost died while riding over a bump on a quad bike at f**king two miles per hour.
People ask me how come I’m still alive, and I don’t know what to say. When I was growing up, if you’d have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, which one of us would end up with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and Beverly Hills, I wouldn’t have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time.
A lot of it ain’t gonna be pretty. I’ve done some bad things in my time. I’ve always been drawn to the dark side, me. But I ain’t the devil. I’m just John Osbourne: a working-class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.”
- Published on: 2010-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
Customer Reviews:
seriously awesome
This is really an incredible memoir. It’s thoroughly entertaining from the first page to the last. It reads extremely fast and retains a sense of humor even in the darkest days (which as I am sure you know, are really, really dark). Ozzy’s stories have become those of legend, but it’s great to actually get them from the man himself in his own voice. And like I said, the book is very funny and extremely well done.
Such an incredible life to come from one that started out with no options other than becoming a factory worker. Black Sabbath literally invented heavy metal. This really was one of the best memoirs in any genre that I have ever read. Fascinating.
Very, very highly recommended.
Most entertaining book I have EVER read!
Seriously – if I could count the number of times I woke up the family laughing out loud in the middle of the night… I TRULY LOVED this book, but then again – I adore Ozzy and it’s PURE OZZY at his most bare and truthful (and witty)! What a rare treat inside his sweet and crazy mind! I only wish this book could have gone on forever!
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Tags: Attempted Murder, Beverly Hills, Booze, Buckinghamshire, Chickens, Cows, Crazy Stuff, Crazy Things, Darkest Days, Direct Hit, F King, Grandkids, Lethal Combinations, Memoir, Miles Per Hour, Overdoses, Ozzy Osbourne, Puppies, Quad Bike, Sense Of Humor
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