History Music / OzzyOsbourne

* CoolOldGuy: He’s still making music, returned to Music/BlackSabbath for another album in 2013 with Tony and Geezer, minus Bill Ward, and had worked with Music/PostMalone and Music/TravisScott for “Take What You Want”, meaning he really is a cool old guy. Also, ''Under the Graveyard'' was released when he was at the tender age of 70! Even more interesting, ''Ordinary Man'' (the album) was released two months after he turned 71. Seriously, that’s another example of why he’s a cool old guy.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Not only does he drop the thick accent, but he is much more intelligible.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "No Bone Movies".

* CatchPhrase: Frequently shouts "Rock and roll!", "Go fucking crazy!" and/or "Lemme see your (fucking) hands!" while performing. Weirdly, he also uses the phrase "over and over" in many of his songs.

* TheCameo: He appeared briefly in ''Film/LittleNicky'' and sung in Music/{{Motorhead}}'s "I Ain't No Nice Guy" and Slash's "Crucify The Dead".

In the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]], he pioneered the domestic reality show with ''The Osbornes''. Since tropes from that show could fill their own wiki, you're better off putting examples '''[[Series/TheOsbournes here]]'''.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ozzy recalls in his memoirs that his father, John Thomas "Jack" Osbourne, would pull off Creator/AlJolson impressions when Ozzy was little--[[{{Blackface}} face painted with boot polish]] and all--much to the young Osbourne's horror.

** He expressed his intentions to leave America and go back across the pond out of disgust over the intense partisanism and rampant spree shootings caused by lax firearms laws and the borderline fetishistic gun culture by some sectors in the US.

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Unless you believe the MoralGuardians from TheEighties. While he did make a tongue-in-cheek remark "thanking" his infernal beliefs for being able to dodge COVID-19, [[https://youtu.be/L3oAU-LBO40?t=276 this video]] giving a young percussionist a heartwarming "God bless you!" is one proof he's far from the evil shock rocker persona he adopted in his career.

* CulturallyReligious: In his memoirs, Ozzy mentions that his late mother was raised Catholic, but none of the Osbournes were (at least at that point in his life) church-goers. Despite numerous accusations that he and his band promoted or condoned satanism and occult practices (they regularly contend that their musical act is more akin to a horror movie and has released relatively gentle and socially provoking songs at times; they also ''pissed off satanists themselves'' by singing "Happy Birthday" instead of yielding to whatever invitations those cultists sent them for their black masses), Osbourne is reportedly a practising member of the Church of England and has prayed prior to his stage performances, also addressing to the crowd "Good night, God Bless!" after each show.

* {{Irony}}: As a teacher Randy Rhoads was frustrated by students asking him to teach them how to play other people's songs, one of the popular ones being "Iron Man." Randy told the students it was pointless to learn them because they would never have a use for them, especially considering that Randy wasn't a Black Sabbath fan when joining Ozzy's band. Randy went on to play "Iron Man" every night with Ozzy, making him one of two people in the world (the other being Tony Iommi) to have the song in their job description.

* CulturallyReligious: In his memoirs, Ozzy mentions that his late mother was raised Catholic, but none of the Osbournes were (at least at that point in his life) church-goers. Despite numerous accusations that he and his band promoted or condoned satanism and occult practices (they regularly contend that their musical act is more akin to a horror movie and has released relatively gentle and socially provoking songs at times; they also ''pissed off satanists themselves'' by singing "Happy Birthday" instead of yielding to whatever invitations those cultists sent them for their black masses), Osbourne is reportedly a practising member of the Church of England and has prayed prior to his stage performances.

* CulturallyReligious: In his memoirs, Ozzy mentions that his late mother was raised Catholic, but none of the Osbournes were (at least at that point in his life) church-goers. Despite numerous accusations that he and his band promoted or condoned satanism and occult practices (they regularly contend that their musical act is more akin to a horror movie and has released relatively gentle and socially provoking songs at times), Osbourne is reportedly a practising member of the Church of England and has prayed prior to his stage performances.

* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Unless you believe the MoralGuardians from TheEighties.

* OutOfGenreExperience: ''No More Tears'', where Zakk Wylde combined his usual heavy riffing with jangly clean arpeggios, acoustic guitar and country-style leads to create a Southern Rock feel on much of the album, a sound markedly different from Ozzy's previous music and absent on all subsequent albums.
* PowerBallad: "Mama I'm Coming Home", "Close My Eyes Forever", "Goodbye To Romance", "So Tired". The former is his biggest Hot 100 hit as the sole credited artist (#28), even though the Hot 100 non-entity "Crazy Train" is widely regarded as his signature song.

** FaceOfTheBand: A natural when he was already one with Sabbath.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He was kicked out of Music/BlackSabbath for his drug and alcohol use, but, it must be noted, only because the side-effects of the drugs and alcohol caused problems for the rest of the band -- he had been doped up on cocaine and alcohol that kept him awake for thirty hours straight, and when the drugs wore off, he passed out in a different hotel room, and nobody could find him when it came time for that night's gig. Really, when a heavy metal band in the 1970s (especially them) thinks you're overdoing those, you know you have a problem.

* CoolOldGuy: He’s still making music, returned to Music/BlackSabbath for another album in 2013 with Tony and Geezer, minus Bill Ward, and had worked with Music/PostMalone and Music/TravisScott for “Take What You Want”, meaning he really is a cool old guy. Also, Under the Graveyard was released when he was at the tender age of 70! Even more interesting, Ordinary Man (the album) was released two months after he turned 71. Seriously, that’s another example of why he’s a cool old guy.

* SickeninglySweethearts: For all the craziness in their marriage, it's pretty clear Ozzy and Sharon really do love each other. And they are not afraid of showing it. As opposed to being [[TastesLikeDiabetes diabetes-inducing]], it's just sweet enough to be {{a|wLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther}}bsolutely [[HappilyMarried adorable.]] The video for his cover of "[[Music/TheBeatles In My Life]]" is even dedicated to her.

Born John Michael Osbourne on December 3, 1948 in Aston, Birmingham. Also known as [[StageNames Ozzy]]. Or the "[[InSeriesNickname Prince of Darkness]]", if you want. As one of, or possibly ''the'', first Heavy Metal singer, he has been called the "Godfather of Heavy Metal" while he prefers to call himself "The Prince of Darkness." Famous for [[ExtremeOmnivore snacking on winged creatures]] in the middle of sets.

** Ozzy has said that the lyrics of "Crucify the Dead", the song he sings in Music/{{Slash}}'s solo album, are what he would tell to Axl Rose if he was Slash. The lyrics have also been interpreted as being directed towards his former bandmates in Black Sabbath.

* FilkSong: “Perry Mason”. According to Zakk Wylde during the making of the song, Ozzy started randomly singing about the fictional defense attorney, after the riffs were created. The lyrics in the song are proof of it being a filk song. The proof is “Who can we get on the case? We need Perry Mason.”