1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. 2 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: The stories about Ozzy Osbourne are insane. He bit up 3 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: the heads of small winged creatures, urinated on historical landmarks, 4 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: catapulted raw meat at audiences, woke up in the middle 5 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: of a freeway after one of his all too frequent blackouts. 6 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,200 Speaker 2: He had drugs delivered by the truckload. His tour bus 7 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: was cut in half by a low flying plane, and 8 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 2: it took the life of someone he loved like a brother. 9 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 2: And during his stints as frontman for Black Sabbath and 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: as a solo artist, from his highest highs to his 11 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: darkest lows, Ozzy Osbourne made great music. That music you 12 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: heard at the top of the show that wasn't great music. 13 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: That was a preset loop from my melotron called Melo 14 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: San Francisco Treat MK One. I played you that loop 15 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 2: because I can't afford the rights to cold Hearted by 16 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 2: Paula Abdul And why would I play you that specific 17 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 2: slice of hit and run cheese? Could I afford it? 18 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: Because that was the number one song in America on 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: September third, nineteen eighty nine, And that was the day 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,919 Speaker 2: that Ozzy Osbourne woke up in a prison cell, charged 21 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: with a heinous crime that he couldn't even remember committing. 22 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: On this episode, headless animals, soiled landmarks, truckloads of drugs, 23 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 2: and the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne. I'm Jake 24 00:01:43,360 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 2: Brennan and this is this graceland. Ozzy Osbourne was in 25 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 2: trouble again. He was always in trouble. Trouble had a 26 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: way of finding him, and when trouble would disappear, Ozzie 27 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 2: would go looking for trouble. This time he found it 28 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 2: and he was in deep. The thing was, he couldn't 29 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 2: even remember how he got into it in the first place. 30 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: He had no idea how long he'd been passed out 31 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 2: when he finally came to, or how in the hell 32 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 2: he wound up on his back laying in the median 33 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: strip of a busy stretch of a Memphis highway. His 34 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 2: head rang felt like it was in a vice. Each 35 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 2: time a car screened by the vice tightened and the 36 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 2: headlights burned into his eyes, he smashed his eyelids shut 37 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: and pressed his hands against his ears. Maybe if he 38 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: squeezed every part of his head, he just flattened the 39 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 2: whole thing, and the noise would stop, the pain would stop. 40 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 2: The pain didn't go anywhere. If anything, it intensified, and 41 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 2: then he felt another pain down below. Ozzy Osbourne was 42 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 2: thirty five years old, rock and rolls quote unquote, prince 43 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: of Darkness, unchallenged on his throne. He'd been living the 44 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: party hard lifestyle for more than a decade, now, first 45 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 2: as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, arguably the first 46 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 2: and greatest heavy metal band of all time, and now 47 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: out on his own as a successful solo artist. The 48 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 2: blackouts these were new, a sign of too much partying. 49 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: They started around the time that Randy died, but Ozzie 50 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 2: took it all in stride. It was like a marathon 51 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: runner getting leg cramps. You can't be a professional partier 52 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: for this long and not expect to black out here 53 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: and there along the way. As he lifted his head 54 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: off the ground, he felt the heaviness of the night 55 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 2: before blow Kannak Benny Hanna. He'd been out with the 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: Boys and Motley Cruze, the up and coming LA band 57 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: he had tapped to open his nineteen eighty four North 58 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: American tour, and the night featured the usual vices bottomless 59 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 2: bottles of booze, drugs, girls, more girls, and they were 60 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: knocking back shots at a Japanese steakhouse when Ozzie lost 61 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 2: all grip on reality, lost consciousness, and now he was here, 62 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 2: stuck inside of Memphis with the immobile blues again, in 63 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 2: the middle of the goddamn highway to boot Man. He 64 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: had to take a leak, but first he had to 65 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: get himself the hell out of the way. Ozzie bobbed 66 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 2: and weaved across three lanes of oncoming traffic to get 67 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 2: to the side of the highway, and may as well 68 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: have been thirty lanes. Felt like that arcade game with 69 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: the frog. His knees buckled as each giant hunk of 70 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: metal roared by. He closed his eyes, trusted his life 71 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 2: in the hands of fate, and made a run for it. 72 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: He made it, thankfully, surprisingly, and on the side of 73 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: the highway, he felt reinvigorated and mostly awake. He needed 74 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 2: a drink to take the edge off. A first, he 75 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: had a piss like a race horse. In nineteen eighty four, 76 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne was his own race horse. He'd been groomed 77 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: for this lifestyle with his black sabbath bandmates Tony Iomi, 78 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 2: Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne invented heavy metal Sabbath. 79 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 2: Nineteen seventies albums with Ozzi contained some of the heaviest 80 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 2: music of all time. The band deployed rhythm groove in 81 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: space via backbreaking guitar risks and skull crushingly simple power 82 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 2: that is to this day unmatched in its originality and authenticity. 83 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: Born of their native Birmingham, England's low hanging industrial heaviness, 84 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 2: Black Sabbath wrote the playbooks scores of heavy metal bands 85 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 2: since have followed, incorporating everything from the horror film inspiration 86 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: of their self titled debut to Ozzie's in congre beatles 87 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: esque vocal melodies that blanket most every one of their 88 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 2: albums to the protomash parts of Ozzy's last Sabbath record, 89 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 2: Never Say Die. Simply put, Black Sabbath rule. They still wore, 90 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 2: and in nineteen eighty four, Ozzy Osbourne was thoroughly enjoying 91 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: the fruits of his kingdom's labor on this particular morning, 92 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 2: though it would take more than a morning cup of 93 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 2: Joe to power rock and roll that was the heaviest 94 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: of the heavy. First it was pints of bitter lagger stout, 95 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 2: then speed pills, the stuff to get you going, the 96 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 2: stuff to keep you going, and that was just breakfast. 97 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 2: Whatever Ozzie took the day before wouldn't cut it the 98 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: next day. Every day the steaks were higher. By the 99 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: late seventies, Ozzie's daily regiment had escalated to a mix 100 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 2: of beer weed, cognac, speed, cough sere, barbituates, acid, and cocaine. 101 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 2: He called it waffle dust because it would keep you 102 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: up till breakfast. He did so much coke that he 103 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 2: tore his epiglottis in half, half severed. It hung down 104 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 2: the back of his throat, and nearly choked him to death. 105 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 2: Loaded on every conceivable substance, Ozzie felt the need to 106 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 2: defend whatever title or reputation he'd garnered up to that 107 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 2: point against the hard partying upstarts in Motley Cruze, who 108 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: aspired to take heavy metal bacchanalia to a level yet unseen. 109 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 2: But Ozzy was so gonzo that when it came to 110 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: his own antics, he wasn't even sure what was true 111 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: and what was a myth? Anymore, did he really snort 112 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 2: a line of ants off of a popsicle stick or 113 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 2: the side of the road. He couldn't remember, but it 114 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 2: sure sounded like something he would do. He did remember 115 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: when he bit the head off that dove. That really happened. 116 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 2: CBS Records, Headquarters, nineteen eighty one, Century City Suits, Execs, 117 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 2: Pierre Croney's squares, all of them, and Ozzy Osbourne making 118 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: like his hero John Lennon and starting over, starting a 119 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 2: solo career. That is, Black Sabbath were moving on without 120 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: him with that munchkin Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy had 121 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: something to prove. He had brought these doves to the meeting, 122 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: and he was supposed to release them as a gesture 123 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: of peace. And that was the gag. Let him fly 124 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 2: around the room in a real Kumbaya moment. Instead, ever 125 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: the entertainer, or ever the troublemaker, Ozzie pulled a real 126 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 2: Prince of Darkness power move. He sat on the arm 127 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: of one of the pr executive's chairs, slowly and surprisingly 128 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 2: pulled the dove from his pocket. Some of the suits 129 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: caught the move. What the fuck Ozzie had that gleam 130 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: in his eye, that schoolboy troublemaker smirk. He scanned the room. 131 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 2: He feeled attention, all eyes on him, and he loved it. 132 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 2: Was just like being on stage. What the fuck was 133 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,559 Speaker 2: Ozzie about to do? His smirk widened into a shit 134 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 2: eating grin. He then slowly brought the dove from his 135 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 2: pocket to his mouth, opened his mouth, and bit down, 136 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: snapping the little bird's head clean off. A round of 137 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 2: gore induced moans from the conference room full of executives 138 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: in industry brass. Ozzie opened his mouth slowly, somehow maintaining 139 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: that troublemaker's smirk. The dove's head fell out and onto 140 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: the lap of the executive sitting to his left. The 141 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 2: CBS executives in the room couldn't believe what they'd just seen. 142 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: The feathers, the busted beat, the blood, all of it, 143 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 2: goateeeing around Ozzy Osbourne's mouth, and that shit eating grin, 144 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 2: and they promptly threw him out of the room instantly. 145 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: The story was legend, words spread throughout every boy's bathroom 146 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: in every high school in America. In between puffs of 147 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 2: Marlboro reds, Ozzy Osbourne was fucking crazy, damn right about 148 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 2: my copy of The Blizard of Oz. And then there 149 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: was the story about the bat. Ozzie did remember that 150 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 2: one that really happened. That was at the Veterans Auditorium 151 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: in Des Moines, January twentieth, nineteen eighty two, eight thousand 152 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 2: Rabbit Ozzy Osbourne fans Diary of a Madman toor Randy Rhodes, 153 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 2: Rudy Starzo, Tommy Aldridge standing in place behind Ozzie between songs. 154 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 2: The show was hot, the crowd hyped, and the bat 155 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: was hurled towards the stage by a fan. Ozzie grabbed 156 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 2: it quick, assumed it was a fake. The crowd went batshit. 157 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 2: No pun intended gonna do it? Really was Ozzie really 158 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,959 Speaker 2: going to do it? Just like the rumored biting of 159 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 2: the dove. Ozzie wrapped his teeth around the bat's tiny 160 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: head and bit down. The crowd went crazy. Ozzie felt 161 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: that familiar sensation of winged animal blood running down his 162 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 2: chin and just went with it. Fuck, he thought, I've 163 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 2: done it again. Ozzie also remembered pissing on the side 164 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 2: of the Alamo. Also nineteen eighty two, Ozzie had gotten 165 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 2: good and drunk in his hotel room. His manager and 166 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: soon to be wife, Sharon Levy had left with all 167 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 2: of his clothes. She knew that the odds of Ozzie 168 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: finding trouble were greatly reduced when he was drunk in 169 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 2: a room and had no clothes to wear. But she 170 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 2: left one of her green evening dresses behind, and Ozzie 171 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 2: was nothing if not adaptable. So Ozzie put the dress on, 172 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 2: grabbed his bottle of Cavassier, and hit the streets of 173 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 2: San Antonio. He was scrambling past the Alimo like a 174 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 2: non committal drag queen when he felt his bladder. It 175 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: was sudden urging, and the Alamo was just right there, 176 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 2: just begging to be pissed on. Now, standing on the 177 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 2: side of the highway in Memphis, he looked at a 178 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 2: parked car. It like the sacred Alamo was just begging 179 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 2: to be pissed on. As well. As he undid his pants, 180 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 2: he thought of the Alamo, thought of the cops with 181 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 2: the Texan draws to put him in cuffs, the cramped 182 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 2: jail cell that he spent a few hours and before 183 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 2: he was inevitably turned loose, all for pissing on a 184 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 2: big chunk of limestone. To the Texans. Ozzie had messed 185 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 2: with a symbol of their heritage, representative of their bravery. 186 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 2: You don't mess with Texas and walk away. As Ozzy 187 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: pissed on that car in Memphis, he remembered the almong 188 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 2: he snapped too when the blue lights came on and 189 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 2: a quick whoop of a siren, Son of a bitch. 190 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: The car he was relieving himself on was an unmarked 191 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 2: police car. Of all the roads in Memphis, of all 192 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 2: the cars sitting on the side of the road, he 193 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 2: had to pick this one. Like Ozzy, this car had 194 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: trouble written all over it. Ozzie knew trouble from an 195 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 2: early age. Sometimes it was the only thing that kept 196 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 2: him going. In Aston, a bombed out ward of Birmingham, England, 197 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 2: he grew up poor, one of six kids. He was 198 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 2: born John Osborne, named after his father, but his father 199 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 2: was never called John. They all called him Jack, and 200 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 2: his son followed Sue with his own nickname. The kids 201 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 2: at school shortened his last name and simply dubbed him Ozzie. 202 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 2: Aston was a factory town, the sort of black hole 203 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 2: that would consume its inhabitants who weren't lucky enough to escape. 204 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: People worked and then they died often. They died because 205 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: they worked so much. The Osbourne household, like many in Aston, 206 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: had no indoor bathroom, and when they did visit the 207 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 2: outdoor facilities, they used newspaper instead of toilet paper because 208 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 2: it was cheaper, and they had money for pants and boots, 209 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 2: but not for underwear and shoes. Ozzie hated school. He 210 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 2: was dyslexic had difficulty paying attention. In nineteen sixty four, 211 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: when he was fifteen, he left school and entered the workforce. 212 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 2: For two years, he worked as a plumber, then in 213 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 2: an industrial plant that made car parts, then as a 214 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 2: car horn tuner, then in a slaughterhouse where he dealt 215 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 2: with the sloppy innards of sheep's stomachs. After scooping gouts 216 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 2: at the factory, he'd popped dexogeren and stay out dancing 217 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 2: to soul music in clubs. Like every other teen in 218 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 2: the UK, he discovered the beetles and became obsessed. Music 219 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: became an escape path, a way to possibly break out 220 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 2: of the CPA toned humdrum beatdown of life in Birmingham. 221 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 2: He decided he would make like a beetle, find a 222 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 2: ticket to ride to get the hell out of there. 223 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 2: He slicked his hair back with soap and gave himself 224 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 2: his first tattoo with Indian ink and a needle o 225 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: z z y across the knuckles of his left hand. 226 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 2: In his mind, he was the badass Beetle. Every time 227 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 2: he looked down at his fists, he'd be reminded that 228 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 2: he wasn't long for Birmingham and if he didn't want 229 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 2: to be testing car horns for the rest of his life, 230 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: he needed to find out what lay beyond the gloomy 231 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 2: shadow of his ass in neighborhood. But first trouble would 232 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 2: find him seventeen years old, too much time on his hands. 233 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 2: Late at night, he made his way through the window 234 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: of a shop up the street from his folk's house. 235 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 2: He didn't even bring a flashlight. He couldn't see a 236 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 2: thing in the dark, but the sensation was thrilling. He 237 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: stumbled around, arms outstretched to guide him. He felt a 238 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 2: rack full of clothes and took as much as he 239 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 2: could and make a pretty penny on the resale market. 240 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: As soon as he made it home, he wanted that 241 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 2: high again, wanted to experience it all over, that high 242 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 2: of fumbling around in a strange place and snatching something 243 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 2: that wasn't his. The next night, he brought a flashlight 244 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: and back inside the story shone the light on a 245 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: twenty four inch Telly, a thing of beauty, the kind 246 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: of opulent picture box that a family like his can 247 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: only dream of. But the thing was like a twenty 248 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: four inch box of bricks. As he tried to climb 249 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: over a wall behind the store, he lost his grip 250 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: and fell to the ground, and the TV came down 251 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: straight on his chest with the thud and pinned him there. 252 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: And once he pushed the set off his belly, he 253 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: decided it wasn't worth it. He'd leave the TV behind, 254 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: but it wasn't the only thing he left behind. His 255 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: fingerprints were all over that TV and all over that store. 256 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 2: As a result, he spent a few months at Winston Green, 257 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 2: a notoriously violent and anarchic Birmingham prison, while his heroes 258 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 2: the Beatles released Revolver Ozzie served prison food to child molesters. 259 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: It was too much, too much trouble. He needed a 260 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 2: new idea, and he needed it fast. When Ozzie took 261 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 2: an ad out in the local paper and formed a 262 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: band that would be called the Polka Tuk blues band 263 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 2: and then called Earth before settling on Black Sabbath. It 264 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: saved him from a life of crime. It was the 265 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: first time music saved his life and it wouldn't be 266 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: the last. Sabbath was not only democratic, they were pragmatic. 267 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: All four members were equals and there was no frontman. 268 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 2: Guitarist Tony Iomi summoned the heaviest of riffs. Drummer Bill 269 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 2: Warred brought the wisdom of the experienced musician in the 270 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 2: pummeling beats. Bassist Geezer Butler, a vegetarian who was into 271 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 2: contemporary politics, and Alistair Crowley naturally wrote the lyrics. Ozzie 272 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: was the melody man. It was a true wizard's brew. 273 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: For a while, Sabbath's fan base was one hundred percent bloke. 274 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 2: It's not like they were singing pretty pop dities with 275 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 2: well croffed dues and come hither stairs. They were Birmingham 276 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 2: boys and they looked it sullen withdrawn, unwashed and in 277 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 2: need of vitam a d. Black Sabbath's self titled debut 278 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: was released on Friday the thirdieenth, nineteen seventy. The superstitious 279 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: release date only added to the band's mystical alert the 280 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: whole prince of darkness role that Ozzie wouldn't have it, 281 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 2: and eventually Embrace was more of a marketing employer than 282 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: anything else. The band weren't exactly thrilled about the inverted 283 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 2: cross and the inside artwork of their debut, but it 284 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 2: meant that the band attracted a particular type fans of 285 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 2: the occult of paganism, of fantasy novels and horror films. 286 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: Dennis Wheatley bela Lugosi the dark Shit. Sabbath was approached 287 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: by Satanists in black magic, dabblers anton LaVey heads, so 288 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 2: the band started wearing crucifixes around their necks to ward 289 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: off any curses that may have been placed on them. 290 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 2: Ozzie's dad made them for the band to protect them. 291 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 2: Ozzy didn't mince words with the would be hexers. He 292 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 2: told them straight up that the only evil spirits he 293 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 2: cared about were the ones that were at least eighty proof, 294 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 2: and gave him a hell of a buzz. When Sabbath's 295 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: second album, Paranoid, was an unexpected hit, suddenly it wasn't 296 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 2: just Pentagram wearing blockheads who came around. On their first 297 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: tour of America, Sabbath was swimming in a sea of groupies, 298 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: at least a rooftop pool of groupies. At a holiday 299 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 2: inn in California, Ozzy ascended to the hotel's roof to 300 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 2: find a veritable orgy in full swing. So while making 301 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 2: music destined for rock's hallowed cannon, Black Sabbath also busied 302 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 2: themselves with drafting a blueprint for the cliched sex, drugs, 303 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 2: and rock and roll lifestyle, and by nineteen seventy two 304 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: the band was fully out of control. They decided to 305 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 2: record their fourth album in Los Angeles and rented two 306 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 2: thousand and two three Stradella Drive in the exclusive neighborhood 307 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 2: of bel Air. The opulent mansion was owned by John DuPont, 308 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 2: air to the DuPont Fortune and twenty years later, the 309 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 2: convicted murderer of an Olympic wrestler. Six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, 310 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 2: one swimming pool, a movie theater. The place was extravagance incarnate, 311 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 2: and Sabbath looked forward to defiling it, and they were 312 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 2: there for two months while they recorded what would become 313 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 2: Volume four, a record they wanted to name Snowblind, which 314 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 2: was also one of the songs they recorded, one of 315 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 2: the greatest songs they ever recorded. Snowblind is a succinct 316 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 2: encapsulation of that particular moment in the band's lifespan. Spent 317 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 2: high to the gills on cocaine. The record cost about 318 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars to make, but the cocaine cost them 319 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 2: closer to seventy five thousand dollars. You couldn't walk into 320 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 2: the next room without tripping over another cardboard box full 321 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 2: of the little sealed vials. Cocaine was delivered whenever they 322 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 2: needed it, which was pretty much always. Occasionally they'd find 323 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 2: their way to the record plant in La to make music. 324 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: And for a band that recorded the entirety of their 325 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 2: first three albums and what was less than a total 326 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 2: of three weeks, having two months to work on one 327 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 2: record was both an eternity and a luxury. It was 328 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 2: hard to get keep track of all the people who 329 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 2: came by Stradella Drive. And there was one guy who 330 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 2: hung around all the time. He didn't fit in. He 331 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 2: had great posture, press suits, dark sunglasses, didn't say much. 332 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 2: Was always there when the coke truck pulled up. It 333 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,719 Speaker 2: was too obvious Ozzi thought, he's a nark. What if 334 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 2: he's a nark, why was any more undercover look at him? 335 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 2: He clearly was not one of them. Ozzie continued to 336 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 2: hoover lines, only he'd do it with one eye cock 337 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 2: to the side, never letting the sunglasses and suit fucker 338 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: out of his sight. His paranoia was validated on the 339 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 2: day he heard sirens lapd They were coming up the 340 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 2: road fast, and that polished nark with a great posture, 341 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 2: he made them. He must have made the whole mansion. 342 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 2: Ozzie knew he should have trusted his gut, so Ozzie 343 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 2: went into full panic mode. He grabbed the tiny vials 344 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 2: and the baggies and dashed into one of the seven bathrooms. 345 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: The vials and baggies were turned upside down, powder and 346 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 2: grass at the porcelain. He slapped at the toilet handle 347 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 2: and it all swirled away. He grabbed another handful of 348 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: drugs and those followed. They started down, and then there 349 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 2: was a wet clunk, and the toilet's guts and the 350 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 2: murky coke weed water burbled back up. Ozzie had clogged 351 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 2: the damn thing. Ozzie slapped at the handle some more, 352 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 2: but the water in the bowl kept rising. He heard 353 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 2: the sirens get louder. Any minute now the cops would 354 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 2: be banging on that front door, and there were six 355 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 2: more bathrooms. Ozzie lumbered out into the living room and 356 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,639 Speaker 2: found six unsuspecting roadies paralyzed with fear. He yelled at 357 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 2: each of them to grab a handful of stash, split 358 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: up and work as a team. Pick a bathroom, find 359 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,479 Speaker 2: a working toilet, flush at all of it. They all 360 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 2: snapped to attention, took as much as they could in 361 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 2: their arms, and fled in opposite directions. There was still 362 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 2: too much stash left over. Ozzie heard tires pull up outside, 363 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 2: heard the slam of at least four car doors in 364 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 2: a quick succession. Shit, they were going to be cooked 365 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 2: as soon as Elie's finest walked in through the door, 366 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 2: and the cocaine had to go. As the cops caught 367 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 2: them with this much blow, they'd never tour again. Ozzie 368 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 2: made a split decision. Band member, crew member, groupie, friend 369 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 2: of a friend of a friend. It didn't matter who 370 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 2: you were. If you were in the room, you were 371 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: now part of phase two. The cocaine had to disappear 372 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 2: up their noses. Now they all dropped to the knees, 373 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 2: sealed vials popped open, piles of waffle dust hit the floor, 374 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 2: nose snorted, socked, sniffled, presto, and the blow was burning 375 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 2: holes in all of their sinus cavities. When they realized 376 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 2: the cops were only there simply to respond to an 377 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 2: emergency call switch that had been tripped, the police didn't 378 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 2: even make it through the door. The crazy train didn't 379 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 2: slow down, and a few years later, in nineteen seventy eight, 380 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 2: Black Sabbath grew tired of Ozzie's antics, which was nuts 381 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 2: because the whole band was just as engaged in the destructive, 382 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 2: unholy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Tony 383 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: Bill and Geezer forced Ozzie out. Sabbath would continue on, 384 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 2: but for the first time in almost a decade, Ozzy 385 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 2: Osbourne was out on his own defend for himself. When 386 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 2: it came to the kind of trouble he could get into. 387 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 2: The possibilities were endless. We'll be right back after this 388 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 2: word word word. Randy Rhodes hated planes. They made him dizzy, nauseous, anxious. 389 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 2: He was happiest with his feet firmly planted on the ground. 390 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 2: He was grounded. Just the kind of guy that he was. 391 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 2: Randy was a lot of things that his boss, Oucy Osbourne, 392 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 2: clearly was not. Randy didn't drink or do drugs. His 393 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: biggest vices were Coca cola and cigarettes. He was a 394 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 2: classically trained musician. He could read and write music. He 395 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: didn't waste time between shows chasing skirt and snorting blow. 396 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: He tutored kids who were just learning how to play. 397 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 2: And he's sure as shit wasn't a thrill seeker. So 398 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 2: why did he get on that plane? And why did 399 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 2: the tours makeup and costume artist Rachel Youngblood join him? 400 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 2: She had a heart condition and it was just as 401 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: likely to not get on an airplane as Randy was. 402 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 2: All of these questions and Moore raced through Ozzie's head 403 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 2: in March nineteen eighty two. The horrific aftermath of the 404 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 2: crash played over and over like a loop in his brain. 405 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 2: But here he was standing in a field in the 406 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 2: middle of Leesburg, Florida, the tour bus nearly cut in half, 407 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 2: the wreckage of a small plane smoldering and choking the 408 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 2: sky with thick smoke. Part of a wing found its 409 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 2: way to a house nearby which was on fire. Flames, smoke, chaos, 410 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 2: and Rachel and Randy were dead. Randy Rhodes was one 411 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 2: of two people that saved Ozzie's life when it really 412 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 2: needed saving. The first was Sharon. Sharon believed in Ozzy 413 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 2: had a time when he didn't believe in himself. His 414 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 2: first marriage was falling apart, his music career was on hold. 415 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: Sharon believed in him enough to take him on as 416 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: a client at her father, Don Arden's management firm. She 417 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 2: helped him reconstruct his identity after he sacked by Sabbath. 418 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 2: Sharon had the future locked in her gaze. She had 419 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 2: a crystal ball. She would take Ozzy and make him 420 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 2: bigger than he ever was in Black Sabbath. Her gaze 421 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 2: went so far into the future she saw her life 422 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: with Ozzy. He would leave his first wife and take 423 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 2: Sharon as his bride, and with Sharon's guidance, solo Ozzie 424 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 2: would dominate. Sharon introduced Ozzy to Randy. Ozzy thought Randy 425 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 2: was so pretty that he had to ask point blank 426 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 2: if he was a dude. Randy was used to it 427 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 2: at twenty two. He rocked impressively, plumed long blonde hair, 428 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 2: played a flying v painted in polka dots, and when 429 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 2: he was still a teenager, he co founded Quiet Riot 430 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. He was the prettiest guitar slinger on 431 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: the strip, and he was immensely talented. All it took 432 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: was Randy to warm up with rudimentary scales on his guitar. 433 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 2: Ozzie wept, Randy was hired. Finally, Ozzy was weeping about 434 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: something besire himself. He had spent the majority of a 435 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 2: two month period feeling sorry for himself in a room 436 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 2: at Le Park Hotel in West Hollywood, and the Prince 437 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: of Darkness went real dark. The booze and the coke 438 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 2: were delivered around the clock. He came to expect knocks 439 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 2: in the door, and the sun from the outside world 440 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 2: would brutally invade the room, and there stood a dealer 441 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 2: bringing him the next round of coke, or a groupie 442 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 2: looking for a romp in the sack with a heavy 443 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: metal has been the one day a knock came on 444 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: the door that sounded different than the rest. Ozzie couldn't 445 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 2: tell if it was a hasher with a bag of 446 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,239 Speaker 2: drugs or a horny co ed. It was neither. It 447 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 2: was Sharon quick, sharp to the point she told Ozzie 448 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,239 Speaker 2: to get his shit together. With Sharon managing him and 449 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 2: Randy playing Blistering Leeds by his side, Ozzy Osbourne was unstoppable. 450 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 2: His first solo record, nineteen eighties, Blizzard of Oz was 451 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 2: certified gold platinum. The year after that, one of its singles, 452 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 2: crazy Train, peaked at nine on the mainstream rock charts. 453 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 2: In the US. Diary of a Madman followed. The next year, 454 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 2: it was another resounding success, Flying High again, the leadoff 455 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 2: single went to number two on the US charts. It 456 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 2: was just like Sharon had envisioned. Ozzie was on top. 457 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 2: His reputation as a crazy performer was the tops two. 458 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 2: His insane stage show included a mock execution, a catapult 459 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,879 Speaker 2: that flung raw meat at the audience. The aforementioned occasional 460 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 2: animal who was unknowingly beheaded. The newly formed Peta threw 461 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 2: a fit about that last bit, so Ozzie assured them 462 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: that the bad at least was already dead when he 463 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 2: caught it. That beef was squashed decades later, and now 464 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 2: Ozzie is one of Pete's animal loving spokesmen. If you 465 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 2: can believe that, and the Blizzard of Oz band toured 466 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 2: melted faces and rendered Black Sabbath nearly irrelevant. Ozzie was 467 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 2: the future. It was on that tour in March of 468 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two that Randy and Ossie in the back 469 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 2: of the bus. Randy told Ozzy he was tired of touring. 470 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: He was ready to wrap it up, start a new chapter, 471 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 2: maybe go to college. Randy wanted off Ozzy's crazy train 472 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 2: sooner than later. Ozzie told Randy they talk about it 473 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 2: another time, poured himself another Gin and tonic, and then 474 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: passed out. Ozzie awoke the next morning to the sound 475 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 2: of metal on metal, the sound of a quick demonic screech, 476 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 2: the sound of life going off the rails, and then 477 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 2: he could feel the world rumbling around him from below, 478 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 2: something low and mean to counter what was up top, 479 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 2: and his ears a high pitched death squill. Tonight us 480 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 2: on ten and there were flames. He could feel them. 481 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: It was smoked. It was filling his nostrils. His first 482 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: thought was that a houseman dropped square under his tour bus. 483 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 2: His head was heavy, his eyes were bloodshot. The gin 484 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: from the night before still coated his tongue. He smelled gasoline, 485 00:28:55,240 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: smelled something burning, smelled death, destruction. Ozzie was dazed, hungover, panicked. 486 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 2: It was like he was in a waking dream, some 487 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: sort of post traumatic sabbath stress slash apocalyptic vision come 488 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 2: to life. He stumbled around the wreckage, found Sharon, found 489 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 2: the other guys in the van, but no Randy, no Rachel. 490 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 2: They were gone. What in the hell, Ozzie wondered had 491 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 2: just happened? Only later did he find out. The tourist 492 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 2: bus driver Andrew Aycock, pulled to Casey Jones the night before. 493 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 2: He was driving high on cocaine, so doped up to 494 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 2: endure he would stay up all night to keep the 495 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 2: tour rolling on to the next city, but the ac 496 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 2: and the bus was on the fritz. And Andrew stopped 497 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 2: at a bus depot to see if he could get 498 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 2: the cooler working, while half the tour slept off their highs. 499 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 2: The bus depot and Liesburg also had an airstrip, and 500 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 2: as a surprise to those who were awake, Andrew revealed 501 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 2: he was a pilot. There was a Beachcraft Bonanza, a 502 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 2: single engine six seater plane parked the depot and they 503 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 2: were making good time. Andrew looked at the Beachcraft Bonanza 504 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 2: and then back to Randy and Rachel, who were stretching 505 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 2: their legs outside. How about it, he asked, want to 506 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 2: get up high the friendly skies and they'd go up 507 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,760 Speaker 2: and come back down in a flash, and then they 508 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: could get on with the tour. The Beachcraft Bonanza airplane 509 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,719 Speaker 2: has an infamous nickname. The Doctor Killer is referred to 510 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 2: as such due to a high number of high profile 511 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 2: crashes involving wealthy hobby flyers who underestimated the power of 512 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: the small plane and after losing control of the aircraft, 513 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 2: wound up dead. Andrew's impromptu flight would only add to 514 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 2: the plane's reputation, and they climbed into the Doctor Killer 515 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: with Andrew with the wheel, and they were airborne quickly 516 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 2: didn't ascend too high. Before too long, the plane looped 517 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: back around, adjusted its course and began to descend straight 518 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 2: for the idling bus. As soon as they got close 519 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 2: close enough to see through the windows at the sleeping 520 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 2: tour crew inside, they knew they were in trouble. The 521 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 2: Killer was coming in hot. Andrew pulled up on the yoke. 522 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 2: The whole plane shook as it struggled to rise. The 523 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 2: plane's wing dug into the top of the tour bus, 524 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 2: bending the bus in half. The collision happened within the 525 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: blink of an eye, and the destruction was swift death 526 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: from above. Did Andrew try to clip the bus as 527 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: a joke, just another prank pulled by a tour full 528 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: of pranksters? Or was he just careless, tired from driving, 529 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 2: tired from being high, icarous, underestimating the doctor killer. Andrew 530 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 2: Aycock died in the crash along with Randy Rhodes and 531 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 2: Rachel Youngblood, and took any answers down with him. To 532 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 2: this day, no one knows what happened. Some think it 533 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 2: was the result of a careless or a wasted bus 534 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 2: driver turned an airplane pilot out on a lark, the 535 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 2: deadliest of fuck ups. Ozzie was devastated. He had brought 536 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 2: trouble to Randy, put him in the bus with Andrew 537 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 2: high on cocaine. Put Randy in the crosshairs was almost 538 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 2: too much to bear. Ozzie wasn't sure he could move on, 539 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 2: but he had to try, probably easiest, just to forget it. 540 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 2: All get it off his mind. Booze would help, so 541 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 2: would pills and blow. He wouldn't remember much of anything, 542 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 2: including why years later he'd wake up alone in a 543 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 2: cold jail cell. The first thing Ozzie Osbourne saw the 544 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 2: morning of September third, nineteen eighty nine was a puddle 545 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 2: of his own drool on the floor there, right next 546 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: to where his chin rested against the concrete. His eyes 547 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 2: blinked open. His lids were thrown back by the rapid 548 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 2: movement beneath them, so rapid, so forceful, that his lids 549 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 2: couldn't keep things under control anymore. Opened under extreme protest, 550 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: Ozzie was thrust violently from a dream to this. This 551 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 2: wasn't a dream. If it was a dream, it would 552 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 2: be a nightmare. He was most definitely awake, alive. He 553 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 2: lifted his head, looked around. He was in a small, 554 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 2: cramped jail cell. And the floor was dirty, sticky, soiled, 555 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: and it smelled like piss and Vomit smelled like the 556 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 2: raw me catapult he used on stage after a show 557 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 2: and before they hoist it down. He heard a scream 558 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 2: from a deep, gravelly voice, bounced down the hallway. Heard 559 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,320 Speaker 2: the sound of something hard, rapping against metal bars, the 560 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 2: clang of doors ringing shut and clamoring open. What the 561 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 2: hell am I doing here? Ozzie thought to himself. It 562 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 2: heard his brain to ask himself a simple question. Like 563 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: the devil himself had smacked him upside the head and 564 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: left him to rock alone on a dank, sticky, pistained floor. 565 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 2: What had he done? Knocked someone's block off in a 566 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 2: bar fight, liberated the head off another winged mammal? Did 567 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 2: he murder someone? He genuinely had no clue. His head pounded, 568 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 2: his ears rang, He called out for help, and the 569 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 2: sound of his voice just echoed down the dark hallway, 570 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 2: and the blackouts were still happening. It was one thing 571 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 2: when Ozzy was the only one affected by his comotose detours, 572 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 2: when it was just his life on the line, when 573 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 2: he woke up in the Median Strip in Memphis, when 574 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 2: he passed out cold on the tour bus. It took 575 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,399 Speaker 2: him a while to get to this point. Shortly after 576 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 2: Randy's death, Ozzy had a breakdown. Once the IV drip 577 00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 2: of sedatives stabilized him, he went right back to the 578 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 2: hard stuff. He and his first wife were finally divorced 579 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,760 Speaker 2: he married Sharon, but even their courtship was rocky. Ozzie 580 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 2: would go full Ozzie drink too much, snore too much, 581 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 2: sleep around too much, and Sharon would throw our engagement 582 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 2: ring into the wind, and they went through over a 583 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 2: dozen rings before they got hitched. Sharon had Ozzy check 584 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 2: into the Betty Ford clinic. As soon as he checked out, 585 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 2: he was back on the hunt for trouble. He learned 586 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 2: how to be sneaky. He hit vodka bottles in the oven. 587 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 2: He installed outdoor lights in his garden, not because he 588 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,800 Speaker 2: caught the bug to plant carrots and beans at all hours. 589 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,800 Speaker 2: The lights were there so he could find the bottles 590 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 2: of boozy had buried in the vegetable beds when he 591 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 2: went searching for them late at night. And then he 592 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 2: tested positive for HIV. He didn't actually have HIV, but 593 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 2: his immune system was so busted from all the alcohol 594 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,799 Speaker 2: and drugs that it thought he had the virus. The 595 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: doctors had to run the test a few times to 596 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,879 Speaker 2: make any sense of it. The lab had never seen 597 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,240 Speaker 2: results like these, near fatal amounts of alcohol and cocaine 598 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 2: in his blood stream, and never mind his body thinking 599 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 2: it had HIV. His body had no right to be 600 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,239 Speaker 2: functioning at that moment. Ozzie's body was blacking out on him, 601 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 2: just like his mind. Through it all, he remained a 602 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 2: vital cog in the American heavy metal machine, next to 603 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 2: blistering albums by Metallica, Judas Priest, and Slayer. His nineteen 604 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,239 Speaker 2: eighty six record The Ultimate Sin was his high as 605 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 2: selling to date. It's single Shot in the Dark, was 606 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,400 Speaker 2: an instant metal classic. His next album, nineteen eighty eight, 607 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 2: It's No Rest for the Wicked, peaked at number thirteen 608 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,760 Speaker 2: on the Billboard two hundred. The eighties were big for Ozzy, 609 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 2: but damned if he could remember any of it, just 610 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 2: like he couldn't remember why he had woken up in 611 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 2: a puddle of his own spit and a jail cell 612 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:25,759 Speaker 2: on this foggy morning in September nineteen eighty nine. He 613 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 2: couldn't remember the night before, walking down the stairs in 614 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 2: nothing but tidy whities, sitting next to Sharon on the couch. 615 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 2: He couldn't remember telling her he had no choice but 616 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 2: to kill her, to end her life right then and there, 617 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,799 Speaker 2: in the moment, it was clear as day Sharon was 618 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 2: gonna die. Ozzy was going to kill her that he 619 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,879 Speaker 2: knew what he had to do. Put his hands around 620 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 2: her throat and squeeze. Was it the cocaine talking or 621 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,240 Speaker 2: the Hennessy? Maybe it was the gin or the pills. 622 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 2: Could be the pills, but was it the uppers of 623 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,439 Speaker 2: the downers? And there was no reason, no real reason, 624 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 2: anyway to lash out at Sharon. It wasn't Ozzie talking. 625 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 2: It was Trouble as usual. Trouble was in control and 626 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 2: it took over his body told Ozzie went to stand 627 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 2: and how to stand? So then he stood up straddled Sharon. 628 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 2: Sharon screamed, and then Ozzie got his hands around her throat, 629 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 2: and suddenly she couldn't scream anymore. She struggled to bring 630 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 2: her arms up to Ozzie's face. Her nails went right 631 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,000 Speaker 2: for his eyes. The weight of Ozzie's half naked body 632 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 2: pressed down on his wife. He watched her fight for 633 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 2: her breath, fight to toss him on to the floor, 634 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,560 Speaker 2: and then just like that, he blacked out, fully out. 635 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 2: The next thing he knew, he was pleading with a 636 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,960 Speaker 2: prison guard to tell him why he was behind bars. 637 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,880 Speaker 2: The guard looked at him in disgust and ran it 638 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 2: down simple. You're an asshole. You attempted to kill your wife. 639 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:54,320 Speaker 2: Attempted murder by strangulation. Ozzie had tried to kill Sharon. 640 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 2: He couldn't believe what he was hearing. After thirty six 641 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 2: hours alone with his own thought, Ozzie was sent to court. 642 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,880 Speaker 2: The judge let him go on bail, but he had 643 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 2: to agree to three ground roles. He couldn't talk to Sharon, 644 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,439 Speaker 2: he couldn't go home, and he had to go back 645 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 2: to rehab immediately. He channeled Randy Rhoades while in rehab 646 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 2: and cut his vices back to smokes in Coca Cola. 647 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 2: After a few months, Sharon paid him a visit to 648 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 2: let him know that she was dropping the charges. She 649 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,440 Speaker 2: knew that was an Ozzie who had attacked her. It 650 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 2: was something someone truly different, something truly dark, something that 651 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:36,359 Speaker 2: had taken over. It was trouble. Wasn't Ozzy Osbourne. Just 652 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,560 Speaker 2: like she had seen the promise in Ozzie almost a 653 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,000 Speaker 2: decade prior, hold up in a hotel room with the 654 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,400 Speaker 2: shades drawn, she saw it again here in rehab. She 655 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 2: would stick it out with him, but he'd have to 656 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 2: make more music with Sharon. At the helm managing his career. 657 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 2: Ozzie would have to keep making great music. Sharon wasn't playing. 658 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,480 Speaker 2: Sharon Osbourne was all business, music and the influence of 659 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 2: a strong woman, his wife, his manager. The combination had 660 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,720 Speaker 2: saved his life before and it would save his life again. 661 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:18,240 Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne climbed back on top. No more tears, Mama, 662 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 2: I'm coming home Ozfest. With Sharon Osborne and the music 663 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,440 Speaker 2: guiding him, Ozzy Osbourne would never again let trouble lead 664 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 2: him all the way astray lead him to total disgrace. 665 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this is Disgraceland. 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