“Grieving, I hate to say good-bye, Dust and ash forever, yeah, Though I know we must be parted, As sure as stars are in the sky, I’m gonna see when it comes to glory And I’ll see you, I’ll see you on the other side” – Ozzy Osbourne, “See You On The Other Side” I…
“Yes, the truth is I don’t wanna die an ordinary man” – Ozzy Osbourne, “Ordinary Man” I was reading random bullshit on the “social media” last week and I saw a question posed by a blogger. The guy had taken a break from his blog that started as a holiday and ran on for three or…
“Today I woke up and I hate myself, Death doesn’t answer when I cry for help…” – Ozzy Osbourne, “Under the Graveyard” You can always count on Ozzy Osbourne to deliver the goods… I have to admit, my introduction to “heavy metal” did not go well. I didn’t get a stereo until Christmas of ’78 – well…
I had an odd history with Black Sabbath. When I first became a music obsessive, my mother’s friend Mrs. Smith (name obscured to protect the guilty), a busty, hard drinking smoker, brought a hand full of albums over to the house. She said these were the records her kids were listening to and to be…
It’s rare that you find any “Universal Wisdom” at an Ozzy Osbourne concert. Somehow, in the 80s, I managed to do so. It was 1986, right in the heart of the 80s, when a group of friends and I loaded up in the car and drove from Manhattan, Kansas down to Wichita to see the…