NO MORE TEARS OZZY OSBORNE

In 1980 Ozzy Osbourne released Suicide Solution, a song that (contrary to the thoughts of ill-informed conservative Christians) warned of the perils of drinking yourself to death. A little under a decade later he was in serious danger of suffering that fate himself.

In a decade defined largely by excess and hedonism, Ozzy had gone off the rails in a big way. Stories of his misadventures made tabloid headlines (cultivating a legend around the rock’n’roll madman),), he “wasn’t the bat-biting, Alamo-pissing, -singing rock’n’roll hero”, so much as someone who couldn’t drink without soiling himself, blacking out or upsetting his family. And then on September 3, 1989 he tried to murder his wife Sharon.