How it all started: Ozzy Osbourne and love for the Beatles

Is undoubted The importance that Ozzy Osbourne had in the history of rockthanks to his works, both soloists and with Black Sabbath. During his existence Ozzy Osbourne, who disappeared today – 22 July – at the age of 76, also embodied so well and so blatantly unrelatedness of life as Rockstar That his image has never stopped attracting attention, curiosity and affection.

Maybe ozzy, brave fighter against Parkinson’s And old wounds until the last, as he showed at the final concert of last July 5, he would have ended up working in the factory like his parents or – considered some of his youth anecdotes – he would have continued to delight in crime, if at the age of fourteen he had not been struck by a Beatles song. In fact, it was the listening of the single published in the summer of 1963 by the Liverpool quartet, “She Loves You”, To inspire a young Ozzy on road to take and on the dreams to be pursued.

“I always learned that I would be a rock star for the rest of my life thanks to that song“He declared the former Black Sabbath once, as evidenced in the documentary” God Bless Ozzy Osbourne “of 2011. This determination then explained the British artist in an interview with” Blabbermouth “in 2019, was born in Osbourne thanks to the deep effect that the Beatles song had on him. He listened to that piece, the musician also recalled that he had recalled the feeling felt as a teenager for explain to his son in his own way, the magic of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

In a series of questions and answers for the magazine specialized in metal and hard rock music, Ozzy Osbourne had said not to remember exactly the first vinyl purchased in his life, underlining “probably one of the beatles or rolling stones”, and to the question if at the beginning of his career he imagined reaching the goals then actually conquered had replied: “I knew it: Grande ‘, I thought when the first album of the Black Sabbath entered the standings and for the first time it had success. ” And again: “Without a shadow of a doubt, however, I know that if it hadn’t been for my wife Sharon, I wouldn’t be here now. I wouldn’t be alive. It spurred me or screamed at me when I needed it”. The artist then narrated:

“I mean, I knew I was not born to do a job from 9 to 17. I would have started a new occupation, they would have told me what to do and after three days I would have convinced myself that I went crazy sooner or later. I would never have lasted. And then, I entered the band with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. Both of the penniless and with the money, I and I have traveled, laughter.

So remembering the first time he listened to Beatles’s “She Loves You”, Ozzy Osbourne reported a conversation with her son Jack and narrated:

“Once my son said to me: ‘Dad I like the Beatles, but why do you go crazy for them?’ On the shoulder. and I heard ‘She Loves You’. Isn’t it fantastic? “.

During his career, Osbourne has paid tribute to the formation of Liverpool with – among other things – his personal version of “in My Life”, then merged into his 2005 cover album, “Under Cover”. The album also included a reinterpretation of John Lennon’s “Working Class” and “Woman”, as well as songs by artists such as – for example – Rolling Stones, Mountain and King Crimson.