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EX-OZZY, DIO, DEEP PURPLE, ACDC and QUIET RIOT MUSICIANS BRING BIG NOIZE TO MULTINATIONAL FORCES IN IRAQ For interviews, high resolution images contact: LisaWalker@ToTheMax1.com (New York, NY-USA): Vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple/Rainbow/Yngwie Malmsteen), bassist Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne), guitarist Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot) and drummer Simon Wright (ACDC) will bring their band Big Noize to Iraq and Kuwait in September. This rock and roll invasion is designed to increase morale and solidify the united force that bonds most all human beings around the world: Music! Turner, who has his first live solo CD coming out in October on Frontiers...

FARGO, N.D. - Ozzy Osbourne wants an apology from the Cass County sheriff for staging a sting operation in the rocker's name without his permission. Osbourne claims his reputation was tarnished when Sheriff Paul Laney invited 500 people with outstanding warrants to a phony party at a Fargo nightclub before the rocker's concert with Rob Zombie at a nearby arena. More than 30 showed up and were arrested. "Instead of holding a press conference to pat himself on the back, Sheriff Laney should be apologizing to me for using my name in connection with these arrests," Osbourne said in a...

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 6, 2006 — Hide the Bats! Christopher Walken has agreed to play the ultimate bad-boy rocker — Ozzy Osbourne.. Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil told ABC News Radio in an exclusive interview that the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor will make a cameo appearance as Osbourne in "The Dirt," a movie based on the band's controversial 2001 autobiography. "How funny is that going to be," Neil told ABC's Al Mancini at the Opening of Vince Neil Ink, the singer's new tattoo parlor in Las Vegas. Walken's press representatives did not immediately return a call to ABCNEWS.com for comment....

We had an extended debate at the office today....what was the best "MTv Unplugged" performance? Me? Hands down....Alice in Chains! Before any reasons are discussed ..... I was curious as to anyone else's opinions or preferences on the topic?

They call him the Godfather of Metal, the Prince of Darkness and the Blizzard of Oz. Until recently, though, few considered Ozzy Osbourne the next Andrew Lloyd Webber. That may be about to change: for the past few years Osbourne, the former frontman of Black Sabbath and reality TV hero, has been writing a musical. It is based on the life of a historical figure who could be considered Osbourne's spiritual ancestor: Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, the Russian mystic and favourite of Tsar Nicholas II's court. More rock and pop features Osbourne writes musical about Russia's greatest love machine

NEW YORK (Billboard) -- Iron Maiden's manager has condemned Ozzfest fans who pelted the band with debris during its performance at the hard rock festival's weekend stop near Los Angeles. The British metal veterans also endured periodic outages of the sound system, and Ozzfest organizer Sharon Osbourne came on stage afterwards to call Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson a "prick" for allegedly berating her husband, Ozzy Osbourne. Sunday's dramatic show in San Bernardino, California, was Iron Maiden's last on the Ozzfest tour; Velvet Revolver has joined the lineup in its place.

Metal to medal? Military recruiters work the Ozzfest The U.S. Marines manning a recruiting tent at the music festival were wearing camouflage but they didn't exactly blend in. BY WILLIAM WEIR The Hartford Courant Posted on Sun, Aug. 14, 2005 POP CULTURE Commerce at the Ozzfest in Hartford, Conn., is plentiful and brisk, and tends toward the countercultural. Items for sale include marijuana-flavored candy, clothing with spikes, and Cat-in-the-Hat-style hats with pictures of pot leaves. The river of people that flows from booth to booth on a recent Sunday boasts a lot of fishnet and hairstyles that fully exploit the...

Have you ever wondered, how is it possbile for Ozzy to sing a song when you can't even understand a three word sentence? I too have contemplated this great mystery, and I recently stumbled upon this evidence that leads me to believe that in fact he may not be able to sing anymore. Take a listen to Ozzy's rendition of 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' that was recorded live at Wrigley Field in Chicago.Not since Rosanne Barr grabbed her crotch has an Anthem been so brutally assaulted and hacked.

My son was taken from me when he was only 2 months old because I supposedly "worshiped the devil" in front of him. I am an atheiest. I don't even belive in the devil. It ruined my life and at the same time opened up a whole new world of horror stories from other parents. How our government is walking all over the rules they put in place to protect us and how our civil rights are violated each and everyday. EVERYONE especailly those with families should be aware of this!!! Please visit my sites and sign my petition to...

For the past few decades the persecution of Christianity around the world and in most notably in the United States of America occurs on daily basis. Christians protest over abortion, euthanasia, parental rights, removing the Ten Commandments and other Christian symbols from public view. It is not difficult to see why this is happening if we open our eyes and seek the truth. Christians have allowed themselves to be persecuted because our actions bear little resemblance to what we are supposed to believe. We scream and decry about the Ten Commandments being removed as we have allowed them, with all...

The fire is the latest in a string of incidents to hit the Osbournes. LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Rocker and reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon suffered another blow at their English country mansion after they had to flee when a fire broke out while they were in bed. The blaze started in the living room of the mansion at Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, after the heat from a fireplace ignited wood paneling. The former Black Sabbath frontman and his wife, who were not injured, were roused by an alarm and ran into the garden with their...

You can level many charges at Sharon Osbourne, but she is brutally honest, and it is her vulnerability that makes her likeable. "Everybody has something in the closet, and I reckon the best policy is always to be honest, then it can't come back to haunt you," she says. And she holds her hands up to her own "big mistakes". The biggest brings her to tears. "I had an abortion at 17 and it was the worst thing I ever did. It was the first time I'd had sex, and that was rotten. I'd always thought it was going...

OZZY Osbourne's former partner in crime last night branded the star a hypocrite for having a go at the thieves who ransacked his mansion. For while the rock legend made his millions by breaking into the charts, his earliest paydays came from breaking into shops, factories and innocent families' homes. Ozzy blasted the burglars who stole wife Sharon's £2million gem collection this week, but his old mate Paschal Donoghue told us: "He should remember he started out on the wrong side of the law." The break-ins led to the Black Sabbath singer serving six weeks in Birmingham's tough Winson Green...

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne considered murdering a thief Monday night who stole his wife Sharon Osbourne's wedding ring and a sapphire "survival" jewel celebrating her successful battle with cancer. The former Black Sabbath star held the intruder in a headlock and dangled him out of a window of his Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, mansion, 30 feet above the ground. And the 55-year-old rocker admits he was tempted to break the burglar's neck and pretend it was an accident, before the robber dropped to the ground and escaped with irreplaceable jewelry worth more than $4 million. He says, "I dived and grabbed...

'I'm very disappointed. This kind of thing never happened to us in Los Angeles' Ozzy Osbourne tells how he tackled jewel thief in his home Patrick Barkham Wednesday November 24, 2004 The Guardian It was hard to say who would have been more traumatised: the red-eyed burglar in a ski mask or the naked rock star with a weak bladder he stumbled across in the dead of night. But it was Ozzy Osbourne, a man who once bit the heads off bats on stage for a living, who appeared more terrified than terrifying a day after eight blinging pieces of...

Ozzy Osbourne grappled with a burglar yesterday after catching him stealing jewellery worth more than £1 million from his country home. The rock singer turned reality television star tackled the masked intruder in an upstairs room at 4am. The burglar managed to keep hold of the jewellery but probably injured himself jumping 30ft to the ground, police said. Police outside the Osbourne's house in Buckinghamshire The burglers used a ladder to gain access to the Osbourne's house Another intruder fled when Osbourne, who has not fully recovered from serious injuries suffered in a quad bike accident a year ago, entered...

VH1 now has as their number #2 moment in most un-metal moments...President Bush alligned with the Prince of Darkness! Bush names several of Ozzy's hits, and says,"Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff!" Hillarious! What does others think of this moment?

OZZY JOINS BUSH BASH WITH HITLER MONTAGE Thu Jul 15 2004 11:38:38 ET Rocker Ozzy Osbourne took Jones Beach, NY last night on what is quickly becoming a predictable Bush-bashing express. Osbourne opened his concert with the song "War Pigs," featuring a video portrait comparing Bush to Adolph Hitler. The video featured Bush and Hitler on the same screen, with the caption: "Same sh*t different a**hole," says a source. Footage of bombs dropping and Hitler marching flashed as Ozzy screamed and guitars screeched. Ozzy also flashed a picture of Bush with a clown nose, caption: 'The White House Circus." Other...

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Days after confounding fans with a so-called "special announcement" that fell short of expectations, organizers have confirmed that Black Sabbath will headline Ozzfest 2004. The timing of the announcement comes as more of a surprise than the news it contained, since, for weeks, assumptions were high that the legendary metal quartet was on board for the trek. Last week, Ozzfest.com promised a big announcement on Friday, though visitors to the site were met with a message about an unsigned-band contest instead of the news that Ozzy Osbourne himself first hinted at in a radio interview in early April (see "It's...

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne said on Thursday he fears he may not be able to perform again after an accident on an all-terrain vehicle late last year that left him in a coma for eight days.</p>

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne said on Thursday he fears he may not be able to perform again after an accident on an all-terrain vehicle late last year that left him in a coma for eight days. "In my left shoulder I have a piece of metal approximately that long, that deep and screws in," Osbourne said in an interview with ABC's Primetime television show, to be broadcast on Thursday evening. "And I'm really frightened that I won't be able to perform again 'cause that's the love of my life." The 55-year-old rocker first shot to...

THE PERSECUTION OF RUSH GOES ON MARK A SITY 12/26/03 Years ago, Brett Favre had a problem with pain killers. He was buying them illegally after a prescription ran out for after an injury that still hurt. He became addicted. After the news came out, he apologized to his fans, went into treatment, and all was right with the world. Not a soul seems to be interested in investigating Ozzy Osbourne’s drug use, but there might be a reason for this. Ozzy seems to be attempting to prove the theory of evolution by devolving into lower forms of life before...

Sep 10, 4:23 PM EDT Sharon Says She Left Ozzy for Short Time NEW YORK (AP) -- Sharon Osbourne said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab this spring. Sharon Osbourne, shown at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, in this May 31, 2003, file photo, said she briefly left her husband, Ozzy, around the time their teenage son, Jack, entered rehab. The Osbourne matriarch told Barbara Walters in an interview for ABC's ``20/20.'' that while the family was waiting for a bed to become available for Jack at a treatment...

<p>The conservative commentator James Hirsen, a columnist for Newsmax.com and a regular on Fox News and "The Sean Hannity Show," once played keyboards for the touring Temptations. At the time he was the only white face in the group.</p> <p>His hiring, he says, was "no affirmative action decision. I really had to be funky, or I lost the gig."</p>

Ozzy Osbourne's wife hailed him as a hero after he wrestled a coyote to save the family's favourite dog. The rocker tackled the predator when it got into the garden of their Beverly Hills mansion and attacked Pipi, Sharon Osbourne's beloved Pomeranian. "Ozzy heard the screams and fought and got Pip out of the coyote's mouth," she told American magazine US Weekly. The dog made a full recovery following surgery. But the former Black Sabbath frontman was unable to rescue the family's black chihuahua, Lulu, which was killed by coyotes. "It's so heartbreaking," Sharon said, adding that they have now...

Osbourne fights paternity suit from avowed Satan worshipper Ozzy Osbourne is looking to his lawyers to exorcise a Satan-worshipping dominatrix who claims he is the father of her 6-year-old son, reports the New York Daily News. Sheron Lutz claims Ozzy Jr., who has a speech impediment just like the former Black Sabbath frontman, was the result of a 1996 liaison after a party. But a rep for the rocker, who already has two adopted and five biological children, says the Prince of Darkness has not sired any other princelings. "Ozzy, who had a vasectomy 17 years ago, has no idea...

Jack Osbourne In Rehab Jack Osbourne, star of MTV's reality sitcom 'The Osbournes', is currently receiving treatment in a California rehab clinic. It is not clear what Jack is being treated for at the Las Encinas Hospital, but the 17-year-old has previously made no secret of his love of boozy nights, and has been punished by his parents Ozzy and Sharon for smoking weed. Photographs published today, April 28, show Ozzy and Sharon visiting Jack at the private clinic, which specialises in drug addiction and psychiatric care. Shortly after 'The Osbournes' began to take off, Jack suffered insomnia and depression,...

Ozzy the osprey found dead at clinic DAYTONA BEACH -- The Jackie Robinson Ballpark osprey known as Ozzy died today from injuries suffered last week after being beaned in the eye with a baseball by a Daytona Cubs pitcher before a game. Beth Evans of Maitland's Audubon Center for Birds of Prey said she found Ozzy dead when she came to work this morning. She said the bird probably died from head trauma, but that a veterinarian is doing an examination to determine the actual cause. Pitcher Jae-kuk Ryu from South Korea was demoted right after the incident and faces...

Elizabeth Taylor and Justin Timberlake were the guests of honor at a benefit Elton John gave with Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne Wednesday night in L.A. But the names of two other well-known people were on everybody's lips: Bush and Saddam. "We all discussed whether to move forward with this event tonight," Sharon told the crowd, which had gathered in the garden of her Beverly Hills home to support Elton's AIDS foundation and her own colon-cancer charity. "We decided to continue because, war or no war, we are all fighting the war against AIDS and cancer," she went on. "At the...

IS OZZY TO BE PITIED OR SCORNED? J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Ozzy’s English boyhood was poor—father worked nights in a steel plant, mother worked days at a car plant. No money, no auto, meager food. He claims as a child he had one pair of shoes, no underpants, trousers and one jacket. At the base of his bed was a bucket for urinating in. There were no clean sheets on his bed, overcoats used as sheets when all else failed. Dad beat on Ozzy, chiefly for the boy’s attempts...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) - An Estonian record company has released an album of Black Sabbath songs played by a quintet specializing in music from the Middle Ages and singing in the main literary language of that era, Latin. "If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th century music," producer Mihkel Raud claimed Friday. "Really." The 12-track album — called "Sabbatum," Latin for "sabbath" — includes "Wheels of Confusion" ("Rotae Confusionis") and "War Pigs" ("Verres Militares") in slow, minimalist versions that wouldn't seem out of place at mass in the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A producer has sued Ozzy Osbourne and the rock musician's wife, claiming the couple stole the idea for their hit MTV reality series ``The Osbournes'' from him. Plaintiff Gary Binkow said he met on several occasions with the couple and executives from Miramax TV between 1999 and 2000 to discuss ``a real-life docu-sitcom'' about their family, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The court papers include what Binkow said was a copy of his original treatment of the proposed series from January 2000, registered with the Writers Guild of America, The...

Bill Cosby who's hit NBC television sitcom idealized family life throughout the 1980's has some harsh words about America's favorite openly disfunctional family, 'The Osbornes.''First of all you media need to stop with this Ozzy Osbourne.This is a sad, sad family; it is a sad case.The children are sad and the parents are sad,' Cosby tells entertainment show 'Access Hollywood on Thursday, June 20.'This is not entertainment.'While many think audiences respond to the MTV series based on the misadventures of Ozzy and crew because it shows that even the rich and famous suffer the same complicate family dynamics as the...

LinkWhat has happened to music critics did Ozzy bite one of the ducks heads off in the pond..now that would have made headlines!!

<p>Sharon Osbourne says she'll castrate Ted Nugent after the gonzo rocker called her husband, Ozzy Osbourne, "a blithering, hopeless idiot" in The Post earlier this week.</p> <p>Sharon Osbourne, when asked about Nugent's comments, told reporters that she would "cut his [penis] off" if she ever met Nugent, a hunting enthusiast who's out shilling his new cookbook "Kill It & Grill It."</p>

Jeb: Barbara Bush was family 'warden,' Ozzy goes unwatched Tuesday, May 14, 2002 Associated Press MIAMI — Gov. Jeb Bush has a friend who calls herself her family's warden, and he said Monday that his mother played the same role in the Bush family. Bush told a buttoned-down business club breakfast that Mary Call Collins, widow of former Gov. LeRoy Collins, combines the qualities of his mother Barbara and grandmother, "which is a pretty fearsome combination." Collins' children viewed her as "the warden at the Collins Correctional Center," Bush said. "My mom, she was our warden," he added. Unlike his...

This Friday for the "Family Fix" series, we take on the Osbourne family. "The Osbournes" is MTV's huge hit series. It's an odd TV hit. MTV is filled with beautiful people playing popular music, so it's puzzling that so many viewers prefer watching the unscripted and often mundane (changing the vacuum cleaner bag, taking out the garbage) life of one family. We showed videotapes of the family antics to two family therapists. Then I sat down with the family -- minus Ozzy Osbourne -- and confronted them with what the psychologists said. Their often angry reactions were interesting. No "Give...

BUSH TO DUMP CHENEY, RUN WITH OZZY OSBOURNE IN '04 'No [Bleeping] Way!' Says Outraged Veep G.O.P. strategists are urging President Bush to dump Vice-President Dick Cheney from the 2004 Republican ticket and run with Ozzy Osbourne instead, citing the addled rock star's superior poll numbers. A new survey of likely voters shows that Mr. Osbourne is now the most popular public figure in America, trouncing his nearest rival, Spider-man, a fictitious comic-book character. The poll results suggest that Americans have little or no concern about Mr. Osbourne's fitness for the second-highest office in the land, despite his apparent inability...

<p>The Osbournes, clockwise from left, Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack.</p> <p>How did an aging, tattooed, drug-battered monster of rock morph into the nation's newest teddy bear?</p> <p>For more than three decades, the name Ozzy Osbourne has been synonymous with loud, nihilistic music, offstage mayhem, youth rebellion and parental panic.</p>

So what did he say? Walk of Fame...Sweet!

According to BBC news reports, George W. Bush has invited Ozzy Osbourne to the White House for dinner. Ozzy is the new star of the most popular show ever produced by MTV, a cable television operation that has plodded along all these years showing music videos by the Eagles. When it branched out to feature "The Osbournes'' in a kind of reality-based sitcom, it suddenly had a hit on its hands that is absolutely astounding. "The Osbournes'' is a must-see television event on the order of who shot J.R. For you young people, J.R. was J.R. Ewing, a wealthy Texas...

Frequent talk show guest Rusty Yates was also in the (Today Show) studio, eagerly awaiting an interview just days after his wife was Andrea was convicted of murder in the drowning deaths of their five children.Sources say Rusty Yates, a fan of the singer was hoping to get an autograph. But Ozzy had a different idea.'Ill burn his eyes out with a poker,' roared Osborne. 'He's profiting directly from the demise of his own children and that, to me, is all wrong. I couldn't stand in the same room with the guy. I'd throw up!'

OZZY MEETS DUBYA?Music Televsion reality star Ozzy Osborne and wife Sharon are planning to attend the annual White House Correspondants Dinner, where he may get a chance to meet President George W. Bush.The Osbornes are going as guests of Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren (host/presenter of 'On the Record' 10PM EST)

Ozzy Osbourne Invited to White House Wildman rocker Ozzy Osbourne has reportedly been invited to dinner at the White House by US president George W Bush, according to reports. It follows the hugely successful launch of a new reality TV show following the UK singer and his family. Ozbourne: "I thought I'd be on a wanted poster on the wall, not invited to his place to tea." The Osbournes has become music channel MTV's biggest ever hit in the US, with more than three million viewers and President Bush is said to be a huge fan. Osbourne said he was...

Dad was snoring on the couch through most of his family's antics on last week's episode of "The Osbournes." But when he discovered that his wife planned to liven up his next concert by filling the stage with bubbles, Ozzy Osbourne, 53, snapped to attention. "Bubbles?!" he hollered indignantly. "Sharon, I'm the Prince of [bleep] Darkness!" "The Osbournes" is a half-hour show on MTV that follows this once-satanic heavy metal star and his equally foulmouthed wife-manager and two teenagers through daily life in their Baroque-Gothic Beverly Hills mansion. (Crystal, chintz and souvenir death's-heads.) An odd amalgam of "Ozzie and Harriet,"...