By:Piper Jungren

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Ozzy Osbourne I was an abuse victim

• ByPiper Jungren

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Early Years

• John Ozzy Osbourne was born on December 3,
  1948.
• He grew up in the town of Birmingham, England.
• Ozzy dropped out of school at the age of 15 and
  went to work at low paying jobs.
• He was so unhappy about his jobs that he turned
  to crime robbing and vandalizing.
• He went to jail for about a year or so.
• Thats how he got the tattoo on his knuckles
  O-Z-Z-Y.
• Then when he got released, he ran into one of his
  old friends and joined his band.

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Later on in Life

• They found that another band had the same name as
  them and changed theirs to Black Sabbath
• They took this name from a movie that they saw.
• On Friday, February 13, 1970 they released their
  first album.
• This was a big break through for him because
  after the C.D., thats when he got his cult
  today.

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All About Ozzy

• During this period he married Thelma Mayfair and
  twice became a father.
• But unfortunately he and the band became drug
  addicts and alcoholics.
• This is how he got his reputation of being a type
  of person who is a, what people call today, Bad
  Boy.

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More About Ozzy

• People started rumors about Ozzy when he got so
  angry that he shot a bunch of his chickens in his
  chicken coop.
• They started rumors about how he was an animal
  torturer.
• Black Sabbath was said to be Satanism's because
  of words in lyrics from songs and images people
  got.
• In 1977 Ozzys father past away, which caused
  him to leave the band for a long period.

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Ozzy Osbourne

• This sad period in his life caused him to be
  uninterested in Black Sabbath and wasnt showing
  up for practices.
• After the band had a concert they later got sick
  of what Osbourne was doing and they kicked him
  out.
• After that he then took on a roll of drug abuse.
• This led to him divorcing his wife Thelma and
  finding a girlfriend to Sharon Arden who is the
  daughter of rock manager, Don Arden who helped
  him turn his life around.

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Ozzys New Life

• Sharon encouraged Ozzy to go solo in his music
  career.
• Ozzy joined with Randy Rhoads, a guitarist, to
  start his career.
• His first C.D. was Blizzard Of Ozz.
• This was a huge hit and soon he went on a tour to
  perform his songs and a little bit from Black
  Sabbath.

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Ozzy Osbourne

• In 1981 he released his new album, Diary of a
  Madman. Which eventually sold more then five
  million copies and this was the start of Ozzys
  new solo career.
• He went on a tour and had a new gimmick, to throw
  meat at the crowd. This led to bad things for
  Ozzy, he was also getting pelted with gross
  things, even a bat. Thinking the bat was dead,
  Ozzy bit into it realizing it was alive!

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Next Steps In Life

• On February of 1982, Osbourne urinated on the
  side of the Alamo, in Texas, while he was drunk,
  which mad Texans angry.
• This landed Ozzy in jail on charges of defacing a
  national replica.
• His bus/pilot driver was intoxicated and wanted
  to buzz Ozzys tour bus but instead crashed the
  airplane killing Randy Rhoads, the guitarist.

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Ozzys Life Continues

• Ozzy replaced Randy with Brad Gillis from Night
  Ranger, and the tour continued, but Ozzy remained
  deeply depressed.
• Later that summer, Ozzy married Sharon Arden.
  They had been dating for a long-period of time.
  He also recorded a live album, Speak Of the
  Devil.
• During this time Osbourne grew unstable because
  of his drug and alcohol abuse. Also depression
  from his former band member dying.

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His Life Does Go On

• Osbourne also got in to business with CBS
  records. When he went to celebrate this great
  deal, Sharon had planned a gimmick, to let two
  doves go for the showing of peace. Ozzy came so
  intoxicated to the celebration that he bit the
  head off one of the birds, this causing a media
  uproar.
• After this event, he entered rehab, this was an
  exciting time in his life because he was also
  being held for a lawsuit. Some lady claimed that
  her sons committed suicide after listening to one
  of his songs, entitled Suicide Solution.
  Osbourne won the suit immediately
• In the year of 1984, Osbourne recruited guitarist
  Jake E. Lee. Then in 1988 He got another new
  guitarist, Zakk Wylde.

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Ozzy Osbourne

• By 1991 Osbourne sobered up and released and
  album much more softer then usual. This was a
  huge success.

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Hes Older, but Still Remembers His Childhood.

• As Ozzy got older, he revealed a story about how
  he was abused as a child.
• He says, When I was 11 two older youths began
  abusing me after school and continued on a
  regular basis.

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His Memories Come Back

• He also said, I was afraid to report the
  incidents to my parents and only this year I
  began to come to terms with the emotional effects
  of the abuse
• Everything when you are a kid affects you in
  later life, said Osbourne, if you build a wall
  with rocky foundations you are going to have a
  pretty unstable wall when its finished.

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Ozzy Osbourne Revealed

• Osbourne had to reschedule a tour to Europe until
  next year because of the effects on his childhood
  memories. He is also taking medication to treat
  tremors.
• He first started to get abused when he was with
  his sister. The older youths waited everyday
  after school for Ozzy. He says it felt like it
  went on forever.
• Osbourne is now 54 and this still, today, haunts
  him.