Hard-rock royalty and some 40,000 fans gathered for an ear-splitting tribute to Ozzy Osbourne at what the heavy metal icon says was his last-ever live performance.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) July 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Barry Petchesky, at Defector — “Ozzy Osbourne Was The Frontman Of The Future”:
Imagine it is December 1970. “I Think I Love You” by the Partridge Family was just atop the charts. Billboard would soon name “Bridge Over Troubled Water” the most popular song of the year. If you listen to music, that’s mostly what you are hearing: flowery pop or earnest folk. Then, you go to a show, and you see this:
How do you even react to this? Do you just kill yourself then and there? It’s like nothing you’ve heard. It’s like nothing anyone’s ever heard. It’s primordial. It’s not so obviously grounded in the blues, like Zeppelin, or as blissfully coked-out prog as Deep Purple. There are no obvious antecedents—it is out of nowhere, or rather Birmingham, which may as well be nowhere. This was the invention of heavy metal, and heavy metal would never get better than this. Sabbath were from the future. Ozzy was their face.
Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday morning at age 76, and he went out a king. Just 17 days earlier, he had sat on a throne and performed nine songs, after being feted at a daylong tribute show by just about every major metal figure of note from the last 50 years. He closed with “Paranoid,” because it fucking rules, but also because of its closing couplet, “I tell you to enjoy life/I wish I could but it’s too late.” It could have been grotesque, these septuagenarians chasing faded glory, but it wasn’t. It might have been a victory lap, these inventors of an entire genre of music reveling in their legacy: not a single one of the performers that day could have existed if Sabbath never had. It was, though, before anything else, a damn good rock bill. Ozzy knew how to put on a show…
It is fun to watch early clips of the band, like the one at the top of this post, before they settled on the imagery: Ozzy is a babyfaced 20-something in jeans, grinning and gesticulating because he’s feeling the music. A laborer from the burned-over industrial heartland of England, performing the type of music he’d have enjoyed listening to, if anyone had been making it. I hope that at his last show earlier this month, even for a moment, he lost himself in the music and felt like that kid again.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-…
OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK SABBATH SINGER AND HEAVY METAL PIONEER, DEAD AT 76
He was a rock & roll survivor who lived long enough to make it through to the other side.
Rock on Ozzy— LunaLuvgood2020 (@lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Spencer Kornhaber, at the Atlantic, on “The Human Side of Music’s Prince of Darkness”: [gift link]
When I was growing up in the early 2000s, few cultural figures confused me more than Ozzy Osbourne. He was, I understood, the “Prince of Darkness,” a legendary influence upon Tool, Linkin Park, and various other fearsome and dour bands I worshipped. But Osbourne was also the bumbling, profanity-dribbling star of The Osbournes, the smash reality show about his life of Hollywood domesticity with his wife and kids. On TV, Osbourne wasn’t a demon; he was just some dude.
Years later it’s clear that this cognitive dissonance is precisely why he was regarded as a titan. The Black Sabbath front man, who died yesterday at age 76, helped invent heavy metal—a sound and a countercultural identity with terrifying connotations. But he showed how that identity was rooted in the very thing that it superficially seemed to obscure: the warm, soft human core inside each of us. Osbourne knew that metal is not the music of hell but rather the music of Earth, not a fantasy but a survival guide.
His own survival story began early in life. Raised in a working-class family of eight in the industrial English town of Birmingham, Osbourne had parents who put in long hours at factories. His father was “one of those guys who’d go to work if he’d been in a car accident, if his house had been blown up,” Osbourne later said. Dyslexia caused Osbourne to struggle with academics, and his headmaster once humiliated him by sending him home for looking, as Osbourne remembered it, “not clean enough.” Two classmates routinely sexually abused him—an experience whose effects festered in his psyche for years. “I was afraid to tell my father or mother and it completely fucked me up,” Osbourne said.
Like many kids of the ’60s, Osbourne had his mind blown by the Beatles and felt called to form a band. It was first called the Polka Tulk Blues Band, then called Earth, and then called Black Sabbath. Bloody serendipity helped create Sabbath’s signature sound: When guitarist Tony Iommi sliced the ends of his fingers on the job at a sheet-metal factory, he was forced to create false fingertips out of soap bottles, which in turn caused him to play in an eerie, leaden-sounding fashion. But the nightmarish vibe of the band’s self-titled 1970 debut was also the result of strategic thinking—inspired, in part, by the knowledge of how popular horror movies were at the time.
Osbourne sang in the high howl of a man being burned at the stake, and his melodies unfolded in a slow, hypnotic smolder. The lyrics—chiefly written by other bandmates, with input from Osbourne—were about devils and wizards and men made of iron, but they were also about reality. “Wicked World,” a B-side from the debut, delivered peacenik thoughts with a snarl: “People got to work just to earn their bread / While people just across the sea are counting their dead.” The protest epic “War Pigs,” from 1970’s Paranoid, portrayed military generals as evil occultists. Despite what Christian activists during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s would claim, much of Osbourne’s music was doing the opposite of sympathizing with the devil…
To celebrate Ozzy Osbourne’s life and legacy, we’ve selected just a few songs that made the man, from timeless tunes to a few left-of-center selections.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Dave McKenna, also at Defector — “I’ll Never Stop Bragging About Seeing Ozzy On The Most Metal Tour Of All Time”:
No record ever spoke to me more than Southern Rock Opera by the Drive-By Truckers. It’s a concept album released in 2001 that has lots of songs about growing up in the South in the late ’70s and not having much going on, besides power drinking and rock and roll. That record could be my life. And of all the period-piece vignettes, none hit me where I live more than a verse in “Let There Be Rock” where frontman Patterson Hood bragged about a concert the rock gods blessed upon him back in the day: “I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne,” Hood warbled, “with Randy Rhoads in ‘82 right before that plane crash.”
Well, me too: On Feb. 24, 1982, I caught Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman tour when it stopped in Lubbock, Texas. Ozzy wielded an oversized crucifix while doddering around a stage that had been tarted up to look like a medieval castle. Headbangers heaven.
Memories of that show and all its quaint heavy metalness, and just how much rock and roll meant to me back then, came to mind when news came yesterday that Ozzy had died in England. He was 76 years old.
No cause of death has yet been released. But does anybody need to wait for a coroner? Ozzy died of rock and roll. Finally! An eminent rock bromide holds that “it’s better to burn out than it is to rust.” Ozzy managed to do both. As has been catalogued, no rocker lived harder than the Prince of Darkness. Every breath he took in the 1980s and beyond made a mockery of Nancy Reagan’s D.A.R.E. campaign and its “Just Say No!” mandate…
Beginning in the late 1990s, Ozzy also assumed the same role Kirshner once played as an introducer of deserving bands to new, bigger audiences by founding Ozzfest, an annual barnstorming festival that featured a mix of young and veteran hard-rock acts. I owe my love of System of a Down to seeing them kill at the 2002 Ozzfest in Bristow, Va. As was usually the case with Ozzfests, Ozzy’s band closed that show. His set from ’02 saw Ozzy play all the vintage nuggets from Black Sabbath and his solo career, with Wylde playing the licks Iommi and Rhoads made legendary.
Ozzy closed another festival on July 5. He and all his original mates from Sabbath tossed aside long-simmering feuds that had kept them apart for 20 years, and reunited for a concert in Birmingham that was billed as his final show. Ozzy’s been holding last tours since 1992’s “No More Tours” Tour. Alas, this time the billing will hold true. I watched a live stream of the show that night, and for all the bombast I still found the performance quite touching. Because of the effects of Parkinson’s and his lifestyle over the last half-century, Ozzy stayed seated on a big throne adorned with creepy gargoyles. Iommi, 77, in customary all-black outfit to match his dyed coif and facial hair, looked to be laboring over every note. The set ended, just as I would have requested, with “Paranoid.” It was a hard watch. But when I closed my eyes…
Betsy
Isn’t the antecedent the hard music of the black Delta?
Baud
i never got into heavy metal because I’m not a fan of loud things. But I knew a lot of people who were into it. It’s amazing to remember how scary and offensive they were to so many proper and prudish people.
NutmegAgain
War Pigs of course is as relevant today as when Sabbath recorded it. I wasn’t really a big time metal fan, but I paid attention. I’m very glad Ozzy got that farewell concert. What could be better?
PsiFighter37
Rest in peace Ozzy.
But also rest in piss, Hulk Hogan (who kicked the bucket today).
SpaceUnit
Oh, just some schoolgirls doing an Ozzy cover:
Crazy Train
Too bad those girls really aren’t going anywhere. Except for the big screen at your local AMC theater!!!
AMC THEATERS
Coming August 21st. Rock lives on!
coin operated
Saw Ozzy in LV during the ‘Bark at the Moon’ tour in ’84 with Mötley Crüe opening for him (talk about riding a set of coattails!). Still one of my favorite concerts (what parts a completely stoned out 19 y/o can remember, that is). RIP, Prince of Darkness.
Shalimar
I thought we had moved on to mourning Chuck Mangione.
Ohio Mom
Off topic:
Very, very nice to have to blog working again, much appreciation and gratitude to WaterGirl.
hells littlest angel
So, after the Stooges had already released two albums.
Well, I can’t disagree with that.
hells littlest angel
@Shalimar: A favorite recurring character on King Of The Hill. A one-hit wonder with a sense of humor about it.
Jerry
War Pigs is the greatest antiwar song of all time. Those boys could write up a really great religious song as well.
SW
Paranoid was based around a killer riff. Right up there with Satisfaction and Layla.
Chetan Murthy
@Shalimar: I’ve always been a mangione fan. And never a heavy metal fan. But I can recognize the passing of a Titan. Ready in peace, Ozzie
Omnes Omnibus
@hells littlest angel: One hit wonder? He had a multi-decade career as a jazz musician.
hells littlest angel
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t mean that as a knock, just a fact. Ask someone two name two Chuck Mangione tunes — very few will be able to. Being a one-hit wonder doesn’t mean you don’t have a career.
laura
T-Pain covered War Pigs and Ozzy told him it was the best cover ever.
I had the first two Black Sabbath 8-tracs in my vw bug back in the 1975-77’s and to this day, I cannot hear Sweetleaf without hearing the inevitable ka-thunks.
Roadie Brother the Elder worked a set at the final fest, but had packed up and flown out hours before Ozzy took the stage, but we spoke hours later and he said that it was grueling; a 40 hours straight gig, Ozzy, gig no rest workday, but he got to see a couple few friends who were there.
It says a lot about a man when those who mourn you include not just a huge swath of fans and the Count from Sesame Street and Pat Boone.
In conclusion, fuck hulk Hogan. I hope satan himself came off the turnbuckle with 2 cloven hooves to the midsection before he dragged his racist ass to the deepest pit of hell.
ruckus
Not a fan of Black Sabbath.
Don’t really have a solid reason but I’ve got a lot of music on albums and on CDs Likely over 300 in total, not one of Ozzy.
Melancholy Jaques
@Betsy:
While it is true that Black Sabbath was originally a blues rock band, the antecedents to the heavy metal can be found in such bands as Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge, The Gun, and Spooky Tooth. I’m sure there were others that aren’t coming to mind right now that played real loud and low.
Melancholy Jaques
@hells littlest angel:
Jimi Hendrix only had one hit – his cover of All Along the Watchtower.
hells littlest angel
@Melancholy Jaques: Good point. Of course he didn’t have much of a career either, except for the posthumous part.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
LOL!
mrmoshpotato
Can we correct the title? – Osbourne
(Oh, autoincorrect! Curse you!)
Chetan Murthy
@Chetan Murthy: Oops, s/Ready/Rest/ Autocomplete!
Splitting Image
@Melancholy Jaques:
Pink Floyd had exactly two chart hits in the U.S. “Money” and “Another Brick in the Wall”
They sold a few albums, though.
mrmoshpotato
@PsiFighter37: Oh, Hulk… Did he know he didn’t have to become Trump trash?
mrmoshpotato
@Jerry: Children of the Grave too – but that’s about nuclear war.
Brian
@Jerry: it’s the first one I put on after.
I know he had bigger songs, but that one was always quintessential Ozzy
Miss Bianca
@SpaceUnit:
How did I know it was going to be The Warning!
Also, another bunch o’ schoolkids, Liliac, does a killer cover of Crazy Train. Enjoy!
brendancalling
I play bass because of Black Sabbath.
Ozzy… flying high again. The godfather of metal.
Librettist
Sharon should be credited for creating “Ozzy” as much, or more so, than her knucklehead husband.
SpaceUnit
@Miss Bianca:
Nice. Seems as though I’ve heard the name Liliac but this was the first time I’d watched them. They’re good! I’ll have to check out more of their stuff.
Gloria DryGarden
I don’t like much metal, but I had some favorites on Led Zeppelin, not just stairway to heaven, but the whole other side of that album. Esp during angry moments.
haven’t explored much other heavy metal. Classic rock n roll and even classical music have enough energy for me. Some classical is pretty rockin.
hells littlest angel
@Gloria DryGarden: Franz Liszt could rip it up.
mrmoshpotato
@Gloria DryGarden:
Hehe, this is true.
Baud
@Gloria DryGarden:
Rock me, Amadeus.
zhena gogolia
@Gloria DryGarden: Richter playing the last movement of the Appassionata.
different-church-lady
Am I the only one who doesn’t get it?
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Doesn’t get what?
different-church-lady
@Baud: HOW SHOULD I KNOW?!?
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Then it’s hard to say if you’re the only one.
NetheadJay
@SpaceUnit: Oh cool, another The Warning fan here. Always takes me back seeing one of these early clips, I remember this one even though it’s been quite a while.
Very much looking forward to that movie.
@Miss Bianca:
And another one! I had a feeling too it might be them the moment SpaceUnit said schoolgirls…
geg6
“War Pigs” is one of the greatest anti-war songs ever recorded. I’ll fight you on this. And “Crazy Train” is an all-time banger. I’m not a metal fan but Ozzy was a legend and deservedly so.
zhena gogolia
@different-church-lady: I saw them in 1971 and I never have got it.
Trivia Man
@Shalimar: I worked a festival in Michigan where chuck played a couple times. His dad toured with him and ran the merch table. One if the first records i played over and over again was from his brother Gap. Apparently it does not exist online anywhere do i have only my memories of whst it sounded like.
Craig
Whew, I remember how terrified people were of Ozzy around Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman. It was on Entertainment Tonight, parents were afraid for their children. My parents were slightly concerned, but not really for me. They were smart folks. Our church going neighbors were freaking out during Satanic Panic. Good job Ozzy, thanks for the songs.
“Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough”. -Noah Cross via Robert Towne
Melancholy Jaques
As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I tried to see Sabbath twice & both times they cancelled at the last minute. Tours were not as well run back in those days.
In only 18 months Black Sabbath released their first three albums which included such timeless heavy metal songs as Black Sabbath, The Wizard, Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs, Sweet Leaf, and Children of the Grave. Ozzy is certainly more widely known for his later solo work and duets with others, you can find the roots of so much of heavy metal in those first three Sabbath albums.
SpaceUnit
@NetheadJay:
Yeah, I’m super stoked to see that movie. I’ve seen some clips from that show captured with phones in the audience. It’s a massive production.
Another Scott
@Trivia Man:
YouTube has a clip of Chuck and Gap (CBS Sunday Morning) – dunno if it has the song you’re looking for.
Best wishes,
Scott.
RevRick
@Baud: I have never been a fan either, but mourning the death of celebrities is, for me, classic generational navel gazing. Back in the 1920s, thousands deeply mourned the deaths of Harry Houdini and Rudolf Valentino. Now, those celebrities are scarcely remembered.
And the popular music of that era? Can anyone alive today name one popular hit song from the 1920s?
In the course of my 40 years as pastor, I performed several hundred funerals. And I have been to many cemeteries, often with headstones going back to the 1700s. And one thing is true. All of those cemeteries are filled with people who believed themselves or were looked upon as indispensable, and likely acclaimed with accolades about how wonderful and great they were. And they are now forgotten by all except perhaps their descendants.
I am not about to dictate whom others should or shouldn’t mourn. But I myself cannot work up much besides an “oh” for the death of some celebrity.
As for the music, consider its trajectory in Western culture: from Gregorian chants to Bach and Handel to Mozart and Beethoven to Mendelssohn and Brahms to Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky to Gershwin and Copeland to…this? Oh well.
I guess I have officially become an old poop.
different-church-lady
@RevRick:
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Trivia Man
Many people have mentioned War Pigs, many more of you are not familiar with this work of lyrical excellence. As a public service I would like to share the lyrics of one of the great antiwar protest songs of of America. War Pigs, Black Sabbath, 1970
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death’s construction
In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh, Lord, yeah
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah
Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh, Lord, yeah
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@laura:
Some bands were meant for 8-tracks, Black Sabbath was one of them.
That’s meant as a compliment. You’re the only one who mentions the “ka-thunks” of 8-tracks. I just went downstairs to pull out my working 8-track of “We Sold Our Soul For Rock and Roll”, one of the greatest ‘greatest hits’ albums ever. There are no ‘ka-thunks’ on it.
Trivia Man
As we honor the memory of John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne, much of the words about him touch on his persona as evil, SATAN’S FRIEND, Ambassador to Hell, or other hell related angles. Some in fun, some as legit fans of satan, some in fear, some with disgust, … clearly that is the main impression he left on the world.When I used to play Master of Reality in the dorms at BYU, as loud as aI could get away with, I was lectureed many times by very earnest souls attempting to save MY soul. I rarely register lyrics, I never delve for Meaning or Depth. I just like the way some singers say their words. But I went to the effort of reading all the lyrics so I’d be ready for the lectures. (Spoiler: nobody had the slightest interest in a conversation, they just wanted to lecture me on blind obedience and following the party line.) Here for your theological digestion are the lyrics to Lord of This World. You tell me what message you take from this.
Black Sabbath Lord of This World 1971
You’re searching for your mind don’t know where to start
Can’t find the key to fit the lock on your heart
You think you know but you are never quite sure
Your soul is ill but you will not find a cure.
Your world was made for you by someone above
But you chose evil ways instead of love.
You made me master of the world where you exist
The soul I took from you was not even missed.
Lord of this world
Evil possessor
Lord of this world
He’s your confessor now!
You think you’re innocent you’ve nothing to fear
You don’t know me you say, but isn’t it clear?
You turn to me in all your worldly greed and pride
But will you turn to me when it’s your turn to die?
Trivia Man
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: My frend has a funny story about Volume 4. He was a big metal head and loved the HARD songs. One of the songs on that album was kind of mellow so he AWAYS skipped to the next track. One day he was doing something else and wasn’t right next to the tape player so he listened to it. After THAT song ended, there is a short HARD ROCKER before it switched to the next track. He was absolutely stunned that this magic song just appeared out of thin air.
Trivia Man
@Another Scott: I’ll give that a watch, thanks. Not a particular song, I want to find the whole album and relive that vibe. I got the record in the bargain bin at Wherehouse Records about 1975, I think it as fairly recent at that time.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Splitting Image:
The 45 release of ‘Money’ is an awful hack. Just listened to it to refresh my memory and oh the pain.
Nobody bought DSOTM based on the 45 release of ‘Money’. I read a piece years ago not about the creation and production of the album itself (that’s been written about ad infinitum) but on how Capitol Records did the promotion in the States.
One of the better documentary pieces:
dailymotion.com/video/x7r7dx8
Apologies to Ozzy for a Pink Floyd digression.
Sister Golden Bear
I’d like to think Ozzy would appreciate this Bluesky thread of him Photoshopped into famous works of art.* My favorite, Vermeer’s Ozzy with a Pearl Earring.
*The poster usually does Muppets Photoshopped into movies, famous photos, etc.
Another Scott
@RevRick: Maybe Ja-Da?
(It was my MIL’s nickname as she apparently danced around to it as a toddler.)
But to your point, it still kinda amazes me that there are radio stations that play songs from 50-55 years ago in regular rotation like it’s the most normal thing in the world. When I was a youngster, I didn’t hear songs from the ’10s and ’20s on the radio all the time…
Best wishes,
Scott.
like a metaphor
has everyone heard the cover of Changes by Charles Bradley?
SpaceUnit
@Another Scott:
If you listen to a classical station you’ll hear music from the past four centuries.
Another Scott
@SpaceUnit: Sure.
But you won’t hear Melba or Caruso or Tetrazzini or …
:-)
Yeah, there are the olde timey radio shows that play old Big Band or Jazz music on public radio stations as well, for an hour or few a week. But that’s a tiny niche compared to “Classic Rock” stations.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Anne Laurie
A much more musically expert person than I pointed out: “The classics” (Bach and Handel to Mozart and Beethoven to Mendelssohn and Brahms to Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky) were only accessible to a tiny portion of the population during their composers’ lifetimes. Modern music — including Ozzy — is available globally to practically *everyone*. So, it’s more like folk music than The Classics!
SpaceUnit
@Another Scott:
Pretty sure it’s a production thing. The artists you’re talking about were recorded on quite primitive equipment. It simply doesn’t pass modern muster.
Classical music can be recreated by modern orchestras with state-of-the-art tech.
“Classic Rock” still holds up fairly well in that regard. But for what it’s worth I’d prefer to eat bees than listen to a classic rock radio station.
SeattleDem
I was a huge Black Sabbath fan back in my college days, but I married someone who was a piano major. I think the only Black Sabbath song I ever played for her was “Changes” from Vol 4.
Trivia Man
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Amazon has a series of documentaries on the making of various albums, the DSOTM episode is fantastic. Seeing each song progression really debunks the Dark Side f Oz urban legend. (Still fun to watch them together, synched up).
Trivia Man
@RevRick: I humbly suggest you check out the lyrics I posted in #53, I actually had you in mind when I posted them. They seem like a good set of rhetorical questions for church goers to ponder. Regardless of the instrumentation in the original presentation.
Trivia Man
@SpaceUnit: I love the idea f listening to classic rock bands… but please go to the deep cuts. The top 3 songs of virtually any artist get essentially 100% of the radio play. Yes, many of them are great songs. But how many times? 5? 500? 5,000? Many Many thousands of fantastic pieces by the same roster of bands and solo artists… just take a break from their BEST for a while.
SpaceUnit
@Trivia Man:
You might just have a point. Anytime I hear Stairway to Heaven or Bohemian Rhapsody I want to put the barrel of a shotgun in my mouth.
ETA: Mostly I’m just hungry for something fresh and new in the rock genre.
wonkie
When I was doing in home care for a disabled lady, she liked to watch a morning talk show featuring a circle of women including Sharon Osborne. I conceived a hearty dislike for Osborne, not sure why except she seemed so smug.
I have never to my knowledge heard a Black Sabbath song and have only the very dimmest idea who Ozzy was. I was told by my client that Sharon was his wife and my reaction was, “Oh. Someone married her? I guess someone wanted to be bossed around by a mother superior.”
So now Ozzy is dead and I am impressed by how many people loved him and respected him and will miss him–but my reaction isn’t to him. I can only picture Sharon with her botox and facelift and chin tilted skywards and her grating laugh.
NobodySpecial
I offer anyone who doesn’t “get” what Sabbath did a small request: Don’t listen to the biggest hits right away. Instead, listen to a small track off the Paranoid album called Planet Caravan. For all the talk about demons and devils, the black clothes and the crucifixes, there was a group of young men who had something that connected with generations.
Paul in KY
@hells littlest angel: We’re all no hit no wonders…so being a one hit wonder is pretty good, IMO
Paul in KY
@Trivia Man: Ha! I bet those LDSers were freaked out by Sabbath!!!
Paul in KY
@NobodySpecial: Listen to ‘Electric Funeral’
Death Panel Truck
“The song that made me decide what I want to do in my life was ‘She Loves You’ by The Beatles. I had this blue transistor radio – I remember it like it was yesterday – and I went, ‘Fuck… what is this?’ It was so profound! They just fired my imagination. I wanted to be a Beatle. I wanted Paul McCartney to marry my sister! My bedroom wall was covered in fucking Beatles pictures.”
–Ozzy Osbourne
Death Panel Truck
Lemmy loved the Beatles, too. To him, they were “the greatest band in the history of rock and roll.” He saw them at the Cavern before they hit it big.