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Paul Elliott

“Spend a day in my head and you’d realise how crazy I really am”: A close encounter with Ozzy Osbourne at his LA home, when he revealed the most ambitious project of his life – a rock opera about Rasputin

Ozzy in 2003.

At first glance the home looked like any other in the discreet corner of millionaire’s playground Beverly Hills: an elegant Mediterranean-style mansion partly hidden by tall palms and a high curved wall.

On closer inspection, a brass plaque was visible on the heavy, eight-foot wooden gates. In Munsters-inspired gothic text, the inscription warned: ‘NEVER MIND THE DOG. BEWARE OF THE OWNER’ – a nod to the wild past of John ‘Ozzy’ Osbourne.

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