Product Description

Has there ever been a more extraordinary rock-star story than Ozzy Osbourne's? Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, Ozzy endured a tough upbringing. Music was his salvation and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the music scene forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs and Ozzy fell into a long relationship with addictive substances. The stories of Ozzy's days on the road are legendary - biting the head off a live bat, losing his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoades in a tragic plane crash - but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of excess. In the end it was love that saved him: the love of his wife Sharon and kids Kelly, Jack and Aimee. In his highly anticipated autobiography, Ozzy comes clean: in all senses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Released on: 2009-10-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Review
`A page turner ... I Am Ozzy is autobiography at its best.' --Now Magazine

About the Author
Born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, 1948, Ozzy Osbourne is one of rock music's most enduring figures. In the last few years he has also become one of television's best loved personalities via the wildly successful hit MTV show 'The Osbournes'.

Customer Reviews

A long time coming but its worth the wait
When BBC Radio Five Live first began Sybil Roscoe had Ozzy Osbourne on her programme as a guest. God knows how many years ago that was, but Ozzy said then that he was going to bring out an autobiography and call it John. Well it's here now, at last, and it's worth the wait.

I first encountered Ozzy during my early days of rock education through the pages of Kerrang! I'd heard of Ozzy and Black Sabbath, but wasn't too familiar with Ozzy the solo star. He had the cover and was dressed as a werewolf. Inside all the pictures was of him as a werewolf and I began to wonder if this man actually looked like a werewolf! Of course, I soon realised it was a video for Bark At the Moon. Subsequently I bought that album and saw him on tour and have been a fan ever since.

What I always liked about Ozzy is that he has never forgotten his roots. He's not arrogant and never comes across as big-headed. This comes over in his book which is written just the way you know and love Ozzy to be. It has his colourful delivery, wonderful descriptions of his adventures; all the famous ones and some you never heard of - the only gripe is the cover, which is a bit bland.

I Am Ozzy will have you laughing at his outrageous adventures, but also have you cringing too. There is sadness at the death of Randy Rhoads and how the Nazis nearly killed him - you'll have to read it to work that one out - and the controversial mishaps that he's had will also have you smiling.

There isn't much more to say except that if you're an Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath fan this book is a must buy. But even if you're not, you're still going to enjoy it because it's the story of a guy from Aston, Birmingham, who made it big and as he has said many times before, is the luckiest guy in the world. The difference is that he knows it and had made the best of his talents and abilities.

What a life
I literally could not put this book down from the moment I picked it up at 6pm until I finished reading it at 1am.

From the opening page right up until the acknowledgments I was engrossed, entertained and enlightened.

I've laughed out loud, i've smiled to myself, i've looked at the page in open mouthed shock and have gone through such a rollercoaster of emotions during the seven hours of reading its amazing.

Very rarely in my experience does a book take you on such a journey as this one does. High, lows, ups, downs it's all here told in brutal unflinching honesty.

What more could anyone want from a book?

I for one could ask for nothing more

Entire years are missing, it glosses over the music!
Firstly, I should point out I'm a huge fan of Ozzy. Have been for over 20 years. Seen him live loads of times, have every CD, record, demo, promo and even figurine that's ever featured the great man.

Okay, the book starts out well, so I give it 2 stars for that. It then skips past most of the Black Sabbath history (there are some great Sabbath books that detail Sabbaths history, like How Black Was our Sabbath#. It jumps to the Randy Rhoads era #I recommend Rudy Sarzos Off the Rails to get a better history of this period), then jumps past Jake E Lee - one of his most popular periods gets very little coverage, and onto the current era, and then finishes up with the Osbournes, which has been done to death before.
The same old stories, the Alamo, the Dove and Bat biting, the Motley Crue tour, and then it's all over.

No mention of Randy Castillo, his drummer for several albums, and a man who also died tragically.
The feud with Dio is glossed over. His feud with his old band mates being removed from the early albums is one sided. Entire albums are not mentioned. What about his reunion with Geezer on Just Say Ozzy? So much of this mans history is missing. He had a co-writer, and I presume researchers, yet the book is so light on detail, it's criminal.

I was waiting for this biography for years. The man has had an amazing career, but this is not the biography we were promised. It's a shame. It's as light and fluffy, and lacking in content as watching the x-factor. What a missed opportunity.