'People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and California, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way. But here I am: ready to tell my story, in my own words, for the first time. A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time. But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time.'
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If you can give one book to the music fan in your life this holiday season, make it I Am Ozzy. This is one of the funniest books I have ever read – not music biographies, or non-fiction books, but books, ever. I mean full minutes where I couldn’t even breathe because I was laughing so, so hard at Osbourne’s detailed anecdotes and the off the cuff, irreverent writing style. The book is as inviting and heart-warming as it is riotous and unbelievable, without the book (or Ozzy) ever seeming to take itself very seriously at all. Packed full of stories and cameos from legendary music figures that will keep any reader, whatever their perspective on Ozzy or Black Sabbath, thoroughly entertained, I Am Ozzy is a must-read that is sure not to disappoint. - Emma (QBD)
Guest, 09/11/2024
