His neighbour says: "He would play piano and guitar in the front room, it was nice music. Ozzy's family was nice and his mum was nice, I never spoke to him much it was more 'hello' and 'goodbye'. I saw the mother and father more."
After working in a slaughterhouse and car plant, young Osbourne eventually fell into crime but saw music as a getaway. After hearing The Beatles for the first time Osbourne said in a documentary "I knew I was going to be a rock star the rest of my life."
100 million album sales later and the creation of heavy metal's greatest band Black Sabbath, the rest is history.
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Ozzy at 4 years old. |