Reply To: Ozzy Osbourne Dead at 76

[Peter DeLegge]

On Release said

I knew it was coming and I’m still shocked.
I have no idea who I’d be today if I hadn’t heard Black Sabbath when I was 16.
Thanks for everything Ozzy.

They were very popular among the guys when I was going to school, and I loved them too. Funny, one of my old friends — an Army chaplain who won the Presidential Medal of Valor, still calls Sabbath his favorite band of all time (although he probably doesn’t share that with the troops!). I just saw an interview with Ozzy the other day, explaining the origins of the whole dark imagery around Black Sabbath. He said that they practiced across the street from a movie theater and he and the other band members began discussing how the popular horror movies were. Ozzy said that everything in music was “peace and love” at the time, so the idea was to play off of the horror films and be the bad guys, the villains.  Although when you consider lyrics to songs like “War Pigs” they clearly were letting their real contempt for war and death show.

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