Music was the only viable path in life for Ozzy Osbourne. He’d been a squeamish slaughterhouse worker, a dissatisfied day labourer, and even a bungling burglar – the latter landing him in Birmingham’s Winson Green Prison when he was 17.
But when he stepped onstage with Black Sabbath, Ozzy truly came to life. So when he was fired from the band, on April 27, 1979, for being a “pissed, coked-up loser”, he figured his life was over.
