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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Elle Hunt

‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 extraordinary life lessons from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir

Ozzy Osbourne in Chicago, 1981
Pleased to eat you … Ozzy Osbourne in Chicago, 1981. Photograph: Paul Natkin/Getty Images

“Here’s the thing, man,” wonders the late Ozzy Osbourne in his new memoir. “Why would anyone want life advice from me?”

Yes, he gave us Iron Man, War Pigs, Planet Caravan and so many other metal classics. But, by his own admission, Osbourne was also a criminal, a cheat and an addict, who routinely risked his and others’ lives and bit the head off a bat. (In his defence, he says, he thought it was a toy.)

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