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Joe Giron ### Tough  Born into a working class family in Birmingham, England, John "Ozzy" Osbourne was plagued by darkness from an early age. Chronically depressed, he attempted suicide multiple times, dropped out of school at 15 and got into petty crime. He got the now-famous O-Z-Z-Y letters tattooed on his knuckles while in prison. After his release, Osbourne hit the rock scene and, after joining a few short-lived bands, he started Black Sabbath. Ellen Poppinga / K&K / Redferns / Getty ### Loud  The band, shown above in 1973, blended the heavy, blues-based rock of Led Zeppelin and Cream with a theatrical, occult vibe which made their live performances a big hit. "Isn't it weird that people like to pay money to get scared?" Osbourne recalls one of his bandmates saying. "So we decided to do scary music. It just came natural to us." Chris Walter / WireImage / Getty ### Too Much  As their success grew, Christian groups in the U.S. denounced the group for occult references in their lyrics — which no doubt helped propel several albums to gold certification. The band developed a reputation for destruction and hedonism, trashing hotel rooms and cars for fun. But when the '78 album Never Say Die didn't do well and Ozzy's marriage fell apart, things took a turn for the worse. His already impressive drug habit escalated and he was eventually booted out of the band. Ellen Poppinga / K&K / Redferns / Getty ### Magic Spell  Eager to get back in the game, Ozzy showed up at his manager's office one day. Sharon, the receptionist (and Ozzy's future wife), recalls the event. "Ozzy walked into my father's office without shoes, with a water faucet dangling from his neck, and sat on the floor. I was terrified." Well, he certainly made an impression, because she took him on as a client and pushed him to start a new band. Fin Costello / Redferns / Getty ### Flare for the Dramatic  One of Ozzy's recruits was the extraordinarily talented guitarist Randy Rhoads, shown above at right. They recorded Ozzy's first solo album and hit the road for a raucous tour that became heavy-metal history. At a meeting with CBS Records to finalize his record deal, Ozzy made a scene. "I was very drunk and very stoned," he recalls, "and my wife told me to go in the room and throw these two \[expletive\] doves in the air as a peace offering. I threw one up and bit the other's head off and threw it on the table. I was banned from my own record company." Gary Gershoff / Retna ### Outrageous  At a photo shoot in San Antonio, Texas, Osbourne urinated on the Alamo and was arrested for defacing a national monument. Antics such as these combined with Rhoads' virtuosity made Osbourne one of his genre's biggest stars. Jorgen Angel / Redferns / Getty ### Loss  The dream died one day in Orlando, Florida, when Rhoads was killed in a plane crash. Ozzy described the guitarist as "the most dedicated musician I've ever met in my life — so unique that I don't think people will ever fully realize what a talent that guy was." Ozzy, shown fooling around above, sank into a drug- and alcohol-fueled depression. David McGough / Time Life Pictures / Getty ### Controversy  In 1984, a California teen named John McCollum shot himself after listening to Osbourne's song "Suicide Solution." Although the singer says he wrote the song to warn others off drug and alcohol abuse, the teen's father, shown above, sued Osbourne and two record companies. The case was dismissed. Bettmann / Corbis ### Savior  Despite his wild-man onstage persona, Ozzy is a family man. He appears above with children Jack, Kelly and Aimee as well as his wife Sharon, who is often described as the reason for his ongoing success. Osbourne reminisces, "my first wife divorced me, my father died, Randy got killed in the air crash...I'm going like, 'Why is it all coming on me?' If it wasn't for Sharon, I'd be sitting in a room somewhere...or dead." Terry Smith / Time Life Pictures / Getty ### DIY  With a Grammy in 1993 and hit album in '95, Ozzy was doing pretty well. Sharon approached the popular music festival Lollapalooza to see if Ozzy could get a spot in the lineup. They turned her down. Her reaction? "Fine. F\*\*\* you. I'll go do my own thing." She got 16 metal bands, put on two sold-out shows and started Ozzfest. It has since made millions of dollars and helped introduce the genre to a new, younger audience. Rose Prouser / CNN / AP ### TV  In 2001, the Osbourne family appeared on an episode of M 's Cribs. Impressed by the reception, the executives eventually gave the family their own show. The Osbournes became wildly successful. In it, the singer comes off not as an antichrist madman but as a doting, if somewhat loopy, father figure. Everett ### Just Sayin’  Ozzy's new memoir is out now, but it comes with one heck of a disclaimer: "Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past 40 years I've been loaded on booze, coke, acid, Quaaludes, glue, cough mixture, heroin, Rohypnol, Klonopin, Vicodin, and too many other heavy-duty substances to list in this footnote. On more than a few occasions I was on all of those at the same time." 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