RIP thread

[Ravenshire]

If you mean the bat incident, that story is largely a myth. Yes, he bit the head off a bat, but the bat was dead and Oz mistook it for a toy, which his fans had been throwing onstage for years. There was no ‘animal cruelty’ involved.

If you mean the time he killed his family’s 17 cats, it’s an urban myth.

Boru

Actually, he admitted to it in 2009. By all accounts, this was in his "Take a shitton of drugs, wear one of Sharon's dresses, and piss on a public monument" years. He seemed to do what he can in his later years to atone for this, even working with PeTA for anti-declawing ads. For what it's worth, looking up "Ozzy Osborne animal cruelty" on Google, I found this obituary from PeTA that's surprisingly positive.

I do hope that when I pass, I'm judged on the totality of my life, and not on the moments when I failed. To judge someone on a small number of incidents, which were less than stellar, but also blown up out of all proportion by a media that really didn't like him at the height of career is, to put it kindly, incredibly short sighted. Then again, to quote Ozzy, "The media sells it, and you live the roll."

The Ozzman passeth, and he will be missed by a great many people. He touched the lives of many in a career spanning over 50 years.

Farewell to thee, Ozzy!