
"America is the most satanic country in the world. They do anything for a dollar. If you've got a dollar you're in; if you haven't you're out."
Ozzy Osbourne is a most unlikely Communist icon, but after spending large chunks of the early 1970s in America as Black Sabbath became superstars in the country, the singer, brought up in working class Aston, had his eyes opened to the cut-throat nature of US society, as illustrated by the quote above, spoken to a writer from UK music magazine Melody Maker in 1972.