The heavy-metal pioneer died July 22 at the age of 76. In 2005, he shared some life wisdom with Esquire.
Ozzy Osbourne was fifty-six and living in Beverly Hills when he spoke to Esquire for its What I’ve Learned interview series. This story appeared in the January 2005 edition of Esquire US. Osbourne died on 22 July at the age of seventy-six. I grew up in Aston, a neighborhood in Birmingham, right at the poverty line. I always felt shitty and intimidated by everyone. So my whole thing was to act crazy and make people laugh so they wouldn’t jump on me.
Sharon’s father was a gangster manager, so she’s a great businesswoman. I remember saying to her once, “What’s always amazed me is that you’ve been in the music business most of your life, but when you sing, you sound like a fucking dying wildebeest.” She said, “What’s always amazed me is how you’ve been in the music business most of your life and you don’t know the ass end of a contract.”Nobody else in the world fucking sounds like me.
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