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Reading Ozzy's autobiography

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I've been laughing my head off. It's really good.

In one part he's talking about his dad getting drunk, passing out while smoking and setting the couch on fire.

Ozzy runs downstairs to see his mom yelling at his dad.

"Then she coughed so hard, her false teeth literally flew out of her mouth and smashed through the window, letting in this freezing cold wind from outside, which fanned the flames -- making the couch go up like a fucking bonfire. I didn't know whether to laugh or shit myself."

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Now that's gotta be a good read!!!!
Just finished Howard Kaylen's autobio. He sang with the Turtles and did background vocal tracks on dozens of well known band's albums (Zappa, T-Rex, etc).
He did lines on Abraham Lincoln's desk, in the White House, while playing a party for Trisha Nixon.!!! Awesome!!!!
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Axe wrote:I've been laughing my head off. It's really good.

In one part he's talking about his dad getting drunk, passing out while smoking and setting the couch on fire.

Ozzy runs downstairs to see his mom yelling at his dad.

"Then she coughed so hard, her false teeth literally flew out of her mouth and smashed through the window, letting in this freezing cold wind from outside, which fanned the flames -- making the couch go up like a fucking bonfire. I didn't know whether to laugh or shit myself."

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ajaxlepinski wrote:Now that's gotta be a good read!!!!
Just finished Howard Kaylen's autobio. He sang with the Turtles and did background vocal tracks on dozens of well known band's albums (Zappa, T-Rex, etc).
He did lines on Abraham Lincoln's desk, in the White House, while playing a party for Trisha Nixon.!!! Awesome!!!!


I'll have to check that one out. Thanks!

I've been on a rock bio kick lately.

Read Dear Boy by Tony Fletcher on Keith Moon and just finished Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries. Booth are excellent.
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Surprisingly it's really detailed -- way more detailed than Iommi's. Lots of names, places and dates from his late teens and early twenties when he first started singing.

He remembers the names of all his earlier teachers, including the one he smashed in the face with a metal bar because the teacher repeatedly beat him with a shoe. :lol:

He comes off as a really likeable guy -- a bit loony, as he admits many times -- but someone who you'd like to have a pint and jam with.

His description of the first time he played Black Sabbath on the record player for his father is priceless. His dad leaned forward in his easy chair, said "let's give it a listen" figuring it'd be some Top of the Pops number he could hum along to and then....

rain....thunder.....DUN......DUN......DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol:
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Another excerpt...(from their first American tour, post-Black Sabbath, pre-Paranoid)

They just wouldn't fuck off, those Satanists. I'd walk out of my hotel room in the morning and they'd be right outside my door, sitting in a circle on the carpet, all dressed in black hooded capes, surrounded by candles. Eventually I couldn't take it any more. So, one morning, instead of brushing past them as I usually did, I went up to them, sat down, took a deep breath, blew out their candles, and sang 'Happy Birthday'. They weren't too fucking happy about that, believe me.
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Ozzy still has a memory or two in him. Don't sell him so short guys.... it's Ozzy. Show some respect for our grandpa.
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