What doesn’t kill Ozzy Osbourne makes him ... even Ozzier
LA TimesOzzy Osbourne, 71, has recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “I can’t really complain,” says Osbourne, 71, whose life and career were once partly defined by extreme behavior and close calls. In January, Ozzy and wife Sharon Osbourne appeared on “Good Morning America” and revealed he had Parkinson’s disease, though he says now it was first diagnosed back in 2003. If tomorrow you read ‘Ozzy Osbourne never woke up this morning,’ you wouldn’t go, ‘Oh, my God!’ You’d go, ‘Well, it finally caught up with him.’” Born John Michael Osbourne in 1948, the singer has seen outsized fame as a wild-eyed showman behind the microphone and elsewhere, singing playfully creepy hit songs, or infamously biting the head off a dove during a meeting at CBS Records in 1981, followed by another off a bat tossed onstage in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1982. “If anyone has lived the debauched rock ’n’ roll lifestyle,” Osbourne admits, “I suppose it’s me.” As for an Ozzy movie, he acknowledges “one in the pipeline.
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