[2010-01-25] Ozzy Osbourne "I Am Ozzy" hardcover autobiography

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:18 pm

Product Description
"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."

About The Author
Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948. He has sold over a hundred million records both with Black Sabbath and as an award-winning solo artist. He has five children and lives with his wife, Sharon, in California and Buckinghamshire.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446569895/?tag=imwan-20

ted262 · 22 Aug 2004

Damn, who had to sit down and figure out what the hell he was mumbling?

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

I hope Ozzy does the audiobook version. I'll buy that on day one if that's the case!!

Of course, I'll probably go off the road from laughing so hard while I listen on the way to work, but what the hell...?

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

I hope Ozzy does the audiobook version. I'll buy that on day one if that's the case!!

Of course, I'll probably go off the road from laughing so hard while I listen on the way to work, but what the hell...?

Just hope you're not on a subway and engineer's listening, or you'll be going off the rai...aw, never mind.

Alan

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

alantig wrote:

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

I hope Ozzy does the audiobook version. I'll buy that on day one if that's the case!!

Of course, I'll probably go off the road from laughing so hard while I listen on the way to work, but what the hell...?

Just hope you're not on a subway and engineer's listening, or you'll be going off the rai...aw, never mind.

Alan

(groan)

"I coulda pulled a better joke outta my-- HEY, HEY!!"

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Dr. Chris Evil wrote:

(groan)

"I coulda pulled a better joke outta my-- HEY, HEY!!"

You're gonna think about that later and you're gonna LAUGH!

Alan

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:37 pm

Bump: the book has now been published domestically. See first post for updated details.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

I'm still holding out for the audiobook.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

It wasn't published domestically before? Not that it matters much - I did pick up an autographed copy. Before Ozzy could replace the Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake stories.

Alan

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:18 am

alantig wrote:

It wasn't published domestically before?

Our first listing was for the British import published last fall, at about twice the price. At the time there was no indication as to whether or not it would get a domestic printing.

alantig · 20 Sep 2006

Ah - didn't realize that.

Alan

[2010-01-25] Ozzy Osbourne "I Am Ozzy" hardcover autobiography

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