From Prince of Darkness to reality TV's favourite dad
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As millions of Ozzy Osbourne fans found out on the MTV reality show "The Osbournes," the Prince of Darkness wasn't anything like wild his rock-star stage persona – at home, he was sweet, gentle and mischeivous,
Over the course of a six-minute skit, Osbourne forgets the lyrics to Crazy Train, calls Barry Manilow “the antichrist” and unintentionally strangles a guy
The man who called himself the Prince of Darkness has stepped into a kingdom he can no longer define. I admired Ozzy long before I feared God. I wasn’t raised in church. I wasn’t hardened either. Just … unanchored. I floated through my teens and twenties chasing noise, like so many do. Music filled the void. Metal was a friend that never judged.
The world never fell out of love with this Prince of Darkness. Ozzy blew up into a Seventies teenage antihero because he seemed to speak for the misfits, the rejects, the outcasts. He helped invent metal as we know it with Black Sabbath,
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Ozzy Osbourne's legacy is huge. From rock god to reality TV star, the Prince of Darkness remained an icon for decades. Here's how.