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Mollie Taylor

Videogame music wouldn't be where it is without people like Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne as the Guardian of Metal in Brutal Legend.

You could almost definitely trace back an ungodly percentage of my music taste to the games I played growing up: Skindred's ragga metal in Need for Speed Underground 2, Hayley Williams' Simlish rendition of Paramore's Pressure in The Sims 2, and approximately 95% of the catalogue each Guitar Hero game had to offer.

I still remember the first time I heard Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train in Guitar Hero World Tour: a rare family holiday gathering in an uncharacteristically fancy Scottish cottage as I smacked away on the plastic drumkit that I'm sure my old man regretted buying me that Christmas, while my cousin attempting a vague Ozzy warble on the microphone.

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