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• The public-at-large knows him for his infamous bat-biting antics and lovably quirky behavior on his family's MTV reality show The Osbournes, but heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne is also a music pioneer, having co-founded what is commonly referred to as the first heavy metal band in Black Sabbath.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth name: John Michael Osbourne http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005285/bio
  2. Born: December 3, 1948 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005285/bio
  3. Years active: 1968 - present
  4. First wife: Thelma Riley
  5. Riley and Ozzy had two children together
  6. Current wife and manager: Sharon Osbourne
  7. Children: Aimee, Kelly and Jack
  8. Left Black Sabbath in 1979 http://www.ozzy.com/biography
  9. 1980: Released 1st solo album, Blizzard of Ozz http://www.ozzy.com/biography
  10. Bit the head off of a dove during a meeting with his record company
  11. Mistakenly bit the head off of a bat he thought was rubber during a concert
  12. Was arrested in Texas in 1982 for urinating on a portion of the Alamo
  13. Trademark: Tea-shade sunglasses http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005285/bio

• Going Solo

  Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 due to his drug-induced unreliability, but with the substantial help of wife and manager Sharon Osbourne he was able to quickly release a solo album and begin a tour that launched a long and fruitful solo career—one of the few that, arguably, surpassed the artist's original band in popularity.

• Studio Albums

  • 1980: Blizzard of Ozz
  • 1981: Diary of a Madman
  • 1983: Bark at the Moon
  • 1986: The Ultimate Sin
  • 1988: No Rest for the Wicked
  • 1991: No More Tears
  • 1995: Ozzmosis
  • 2001: Down to Earth
  • 2007: Black Rain

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