“We're just gonna go on and play our music, man,” Ozzy Osbourne tells a young woman reporter from ABC TV. “We don't go on and blow the stage up... we just go on and play our music man. Because that's what it's about.”
It's the afternoon of Saturday April 6, 1974, and standing on the tarmac at Ontario International Airport, the 25-year-old singer seems remarkably relaxed ahead of what will be Black Sabbath's biggest show ever. To be fair, this is partially due to the high grade cocaine Osbourne and his bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward had been snorting aboard the helicopter transporting them to San Bernardino County, but it was also due to the fact that, having had their spot on the the inaugural California Jam line-up confirmed just days earlier, Sabbath didn't have the luxury of over-thinking.
