Apr 06 2009
Ozzy And Sharon Osbourne’s Early Years
Unlike Sharon Ozzy’s first wife Thelma was not understanding and in 1981 Ozzy divorced her. One day he returned home drunk to find that she had thrown all his belongings outside and was told that he would be arrested should he try to enter the house.
Ozzy and Sharon were married on a Honolulu-Hawaii beach on July fourth, 1982. Although Sharon and Ozzy faced many turbulent years at first, it was a marriage that would last through the trials and difficulties that were thrown at them.
When Sharon and Ozzy got married Ozzy was under the management of Don Arden, Sharon’s father. Don Arden was a tough Jewish businessman that cared more for money than his family. Sharon and Ozzy had to pay Don Arden 1.5 million dollars to purchase the contract.
One day when Ozzy heard The Beatles on the radio he dreamed of launching a career as a rock singer. He hoped that it would take him out of the working class situation he had lived in for the majority of his life. In Ozzy’s early days he had a few scrapes with the law although Ozzy didn’t try to cover his tracks. He wore fingerless gloves so not to leave fingerprints in peoples houses. What he didn’t realise is that fingerless gloves leave fingerprints. Ozzy was soon sentenced to six weeks at Winson Green Prison. During his time in prison Ozzy gave himself many tatoos including his name OZZY across his knuckles and a smiling face on each knee to make him smile whilst he was in prison.
Ozzy carried out a few jobs before he made a name for himself in music. He tested car horns the Lucas car factory and worked on the kill floor of an abattoir.
Ozzy began to realize his dreams in 1967 after he filled in on vocals for the band “The Music Machine”. Ozzy used to play in an outfit called The Approach, playing R&B tunes in a church basement. Personal disagreements led Ozzy to seperate from the group. Ozzy owned his own P.A equipment that helped him land his next gig with a band named Rare Breed, this introduced him to his future Black Sabbath group member, bassist Terence “Geezer” Butler. Although Rare Breed didn’t stay together for very long, Ozzy’s work with Butler was there to stay.
Sharon and Ozzy had quite the past. I didn’t know that Ozzy was married to someone else before Sharon. It seems like they were together forever.