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Released: 2009-10-01 Rating:  More Details: I am Ozzy I am Ozzy @Amazon I am Ozzy @aStore |
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The only thing i can really say about this book is that it is fantastic. Any spare time i have had has been taken up by reading this book. It just has everything of a truely great read and that's why i say dont even think about it just buy it because you wont be disappointed. Full of hilarious memories, stories of tragedy, all the struggles he faced as a working class man and the best part is that it is all true. It truely deserves more than 5 stars it really does.
I WISH THE BOOK NEVER ENDED........ 
I'm so glad i bought this book. I am someone who doesn't read at all. This book made me laugh out loud so many times that i wish i could read it again and not know what was coming next.............just so i can laugh as hard again.
I've heard alot of the stories, but never the parts in between to explain how,and why they happened.........mostly due to massive consumption........HAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm glad ozzy is alive to write this book cause, it makes me feel good to know i ain't the only crazy person in the world.
I LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHECK IT OUT IF YOU LOVE THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Such a good read.
Having been aware of Ozzy for too many years to remember I had to buy this book and at first was a little disappointed and gave up after a few pages. But.. some days later I began again and it is such a good read. It is like sitting in a room chatting with an old friend catching up and laughing at past antics. At times I found myself falling about laughing, stuck in my mind is the story of Tony and the flute.
Ozzy is still the brummie lad with a fantastic sense of humour, typically his Marilyn Manson comment on one of the photos.
The story also covers the incredible love story of Ozzy and Sharon and the friendship with Randy Rhoads which tragically ended too soon.
This time I read the book cover to cover non stop.
This is the best of this type of book that I have read, it will be hard to follow so I hope Ozzy does a follow up soon!
Entire years are missing, it glosses over the music! 
Firstly, I should point out I'm a huge fan of Ozzy. Have been for over 20 years. Seen him live loads of times, have every CD, record, demo, promo and even figurine that's ever featured the great man.
Okay, the book starts out well, so I give it 2 stars for that. It then skips past most of the Black Sabbath history (there are some great Sabbath books that detail Sabbaths history, like How Black Was our Sabbath#. It jumps to the Randy Rhoads era #I recommend Rudy Sarzos Off the Rails to get a better history of this period), then jumps past Jake E Lee - one of his most popular periods gets very little coverage, and onto the current era, and then finishes up with the Osbournes, which has been done to death before.
The same old stories, the Alamo, the Dove and Bat biting, the Motley Crue tour, and then it's all over.
No mention of Randy Castillo, his drummer for several albums, and a man who also died tragically.
The feud with Dio is glossed over. His feud with his old band mates being removed from the early albums is one sided. Entire albums are not mentioned. What about his reunion with Geezer on Just Say Ozzy? So much of this mans history is missing. He had a co-writer, and I presume researchers, yet the book is so light on detail, it's criminal.
I was waiting for this biography for years. The man has had an amazing career, but this is not the biography we were promised. It's a shame. It's as light and fluffy, and lacking in content as watching the x-factor. What a missed opportunity.
The greatest story ever told
As a lifelong fan of Ozzy it may have been that whatever he had written would have interested me but from the first page I knew that this was something special.
Ozzy pulls no punches in this warts and all story of his life so far. A life that probably no one on the planet but him could have lived through. From the humblest of beginnings to the highest of highs he hasn't really changed, he's just Ozzy. Mental, Lunatic, Scarred, Disabled, Gentle, Loving, Kind, and eventually, A true family man. It's all in there as you ride along with Ozzy on a roller coaster ride of drink, drugs and emotions.
Ozzy's skill as a clown has you laughing out loud in every chapter, with equal parts of despair and sadness, tears and musical genius. The recipe for this cocktail is unique, known only to one bartender, John Michael Osbourne.
If you want something different then this is it. Be warned that once you pick it up you'll be hooked, craving for more and more and more but whether Ozzy has any more to give only time will tell.
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ISBN: 9781847443465, 184744346X, 9781847443472 (pbk.), 1847443478 (pbk.) Year: 2009 Subjects: Rock musicians, Osbourne, Ozzy, Black Sabbath (Musical group), Great Britain, Biography Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept ...
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ISBN-10: 184744346X ISBN-13: 978-1847443465 Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.6 x 4 cm Product Description Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne's? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept ...
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