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‘Laughing and out of breath, he thanked us for the snowball fight’: fans on the magic of Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne sings into microphone
Ozzy Osbourne performs at the Hultsfred festival in Sweden, 15 June 2007. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/EPA

‘The least pretentious rock star I ever met as a music journalist’

I interviewed Ozzy in 1997, for Kerrang! magazine. We met in a hotel on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, where he proceeded to drink gallons of Diet Coke, and take the piss out of himself. He was the least pretentious rock star I ever met, and during my decade in the industry, I met hundreds.

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