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Subject: Re: [OT] Ozzie Osborne has died
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On 2025-07-23 02:16:30 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:
> On 7/22/25 1:19 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't actually have a link to a newspaper article yet. I just stumbled
>>> on a live stream about his death but it's ending so maybe wait a few
>>> minutes and they'll hopefully leave it so that it can be replayed....
>> 
>> https://apnews.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-dies-adff88b55f1d3b0bace5705d58d3cdde
>> 
>>> On a personal note, I definitely appreciated Black Sabbath back in the
>>> day. I've got the first four albums and still listen to them on occasion
>>> (via YouTube) and appreciate them.
>> 
>>> I've never pretended to understand Ozzy as a person or what drove him.
>>> His slurred speech always made him seem massively impaired every time I
>>> saw an interview with him - or a clip from his reality show - but he
>>> couldn't have lived this long if he was *that* drunk/stoned could he so
>>> maybe he wasn't actually as wasted as he seemed. But you can't deny that
>>> he made a memorable front man, both of Black Sabbath and of his solo band.
>> 
>>> R.I.P. Ozzy!
> 
> If Ozzy Osborne can make it to 76, then I think anyone can!!

Except he was pickled from the inside by all that booze in his twenties 
.... and thirties, and fourties, and fifties, and sixties, and 
seventies.  ;-)