To celebrate get your 12″ plush bat with detachable head now.’, The product’s description reads: ‘The Ozzy Osbourne Plush Bat is a web exclusive. Thumbs Up To The NBA For Using A Primus Song In "Big Plays" Commercial, Google Homepage Tributes To John Lennon, Les Paul & Freddie Mercury, CONFIRMED: Pat Smear of Foo Fighters Did Appear in the Prince "Raspberry Beret" Music Video. Osbourne’s new album, Ordinary Man, arrives Feb. 21. After that it was all downhill.’, Kelly Osbourne holds dad Ozzy's hand as First Family of Darkness unite for family portrait, Sharon Osbourne boasts about sex life with husband Ozzy: 'It used to be three times a day', Ozzy Osbourne drummer Lee Kerslake dies aged 73. Wall says that Osbourne had originally planned to his appearance at the executive meeting by charmingly releasing three doves into the air like some kind of metal magician. And then did so with the other. Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 ranked this incident number two on its list of “Rock’s Wildest Myths”. Ozzy Ozbourne is celebrating 38 years since biting the head off a bat the only way he knows how, by releasing bat merch. For anyone out there who thinks it’s ‘cool’… and if you want to be a complete dick, try it.”. The creature – believed to be dead – was thrown at Ozzy by a fan and the musician only realised after that the animal was real and not made of rubber, and he was later rushed to hospital for a rabies injection. Apparently, the mixture of alcohol and boredom were the cause of this violent excess, as a CBS PR woman had irritated the singer during the promotion. The accident, which happened when he fell over in his bathroom in the dark at his home in LA, dislodged his 15 metal rods from his previous quad bike crash. Ozzy tweeted: ‘Today marks the 38th Anniversary since I bit a head off a f***ing bat! Let’s start with the first victims – doves. 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Well, needless to say, Ozzy was wrong. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. Here’s a youtube clip of a VH1 documentary about the incident…. “I had one in each rear, one in each arm, and one in the top of my leg – and I had to have that every night. However, this wasn’t the first time that Black Sabbath frontman showed such vicious behavior. Just to shut her up. If this doesn’t justify various the sinister nicknames which the singer acquired during years of continuous debauchery, another anecdote dating back to a 1982 concert in Des Moines, Iowa certainly does. Remember the Country-Rock Band the Ozark Mountain Daredevils? Often accused of promoting Satanism, inciting suicides and violence through his music, and generally being a bad influence on kids, Osbourne had built a reputation which followed him throughout his career. Who wouldn’t want to remember Ozzy accidentally eating a bat?
Okay, it’s time to set the record straight on Ozzy Osbourne biting the heads off small winged creatures. He realized what he had done just moments after he bit off the bat’s head, just as the helpless animal reacted in desperation by biting Osbourne’s tongue. Photo by Greg Neate CC BY 2.0. One of the most infamous moments in a long career of infamous moments, today marks the anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat live onstage in front of a stunned audience. The classic rocker and his wife/manager Sharon decided to pull a fun stunt at a CBS Records executive meeting in Los Angeles. One of the oldest stories about Ozzy Osbourne's borderline behavior involves him biting the head off a bat. “”Immediately, though, something felt wrong. During those years Osbourne was probably at the height of his drug abuse, often losing contact with reality. After she replied “Yes,” he grabbed a dove that was there to add to the dramatic effect, and bit its head off. Dead or alive, the bat eventually ended up in Ozzy’s dental guillotine, seeing the singer hit the headlines and find his way to the emergency room. It wasn’t the first time Osbourne had found himself with an animal’s life between his teeth.

Very wrong. In such a fragile state, however, he was still able to deliver a rocking performance. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. “It was crunchy,” Ozzy later told a reporter. Here’s a few shots of the scene of the crime at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. “A fan threw it on stage and I thought it was a toy, it must have been stunned by the lights because it looked dead when I picked it up, I put it in my mouth as a joke. The Infamous Nirvana "Walmart" Edited Version of "In Utero". The year was 1981.

Yes, he did. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. He has officially chomped down on three of them: two doves (on purpose… sort of), and one bat (on purpose… in another sort of sort of).

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