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Creem Profiles

OZZY OSBOURNE

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

May 1, 1982

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HOME: Over the mountain.

AGE: Looking for a suicide solution.

PROFESSION: Madman.

HOBBIES: Biting heads off rodents and some fine feathered friends; getting rabies shots; wee-weeing in wine bottles; keeping diaries; watching old Alice Cooper videos in his asylum room.

LAST BOOK READ: The Autobiography Of Dwight Frye.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Out-grossing Wendy 0. Williams.

QUOTE: “I been a bad, bad boy.”

PROFILE: Leaving behind the devils, demons and war pigs of Black Sabbath, Ozzy followed the blood-stained brick road and went off to find the Blizzard, the horrible Blizzard of Ozz, jumping a crazy train to heavy metal success, and proving “you can’t kill rock V roll”—but you can sure as hell try! (We know what’s in the can, Oz, but what’s in the bun?)

BEER: Boy Howdy!