Synopses & Reviews
Rock's Backpages, the online library of rock and roll, here collects the best pieces ever written on Ozzy and Sabbath.
Synopsis
Ozzy Osbourne is the undisputed heavyweight godfather of Planet Metal. When his band Black Sabbath emerged from working-class Birmingham in the late '60s, there were no precedents for their sludgy, barbiturated, Hammer Horror Rock. Three and a half decades later, no one has topped the awesome grind of "Paranoid," "Sweet Leaf, "Iron Man," "War Pigs," "Supernaut," and other Sabbath classics. Sabbath remains the template for rock as much of an influence on grunge as on Nu Metal. Rock's Back Pages, the online library of rock and roll, here collects the best pieces ever written on Ozzy and Sabbath. From the early days of Earth and Polka Tulk to the televisual triumph of "The Osbournes, writers such as Lester Bangs, Mike Saunders, Glenn O'Brien, Simon Reynolds, John Walsh, Chris Welch, and David Dalton observe, analyze, and converse with Ozzy and his sometime bandmates, Tony Lommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward.