

Owns own PA." Another 18 year old (Terence 'Geezer' Butler) saw Ozzy's ad on a shop bulletin board looked him up. Earlier, when he was fourteen, he had been in a band named 'The Black Panthers', and he decided to try music as a career.Later he joined a band called "Approach", but quit shortly after, disliking the band.Īfter leaving "Approach" he decided to call himself "Ozzy Zig", placing an ad in the local paper and music shop which read "Ozzy Zig requires gig. It was in Winson Green Prison where he tattooed the now famous letters O-Z-Z-Y across his left knuckles, doing so with a sewing needle and graphite. He did time there again later for assaulting a police officer - punching him in the face. He was given a fine, but couldn't pay it, and so was sent to Birmingham's Winson Green Prison for three months. He participated in school opera-plays such as H.M.S Pinafore, The Mikado, and The Pirates of Penzance, the early signs of his desire to entertain.His first time in jail was for break and enters.

Although Ozzy was considered somewhat of a rebel in school, he did take part in many school activities. To say money was tight would be an understatement. John Michael Osbourne was born on December 3rd, 1948 in an industrial town in England where he and his five siblings, mother and father, lived in a 2 bedroom house.

Siblings: 2 brothers, Paul and Tony - 3 sisters Jean, Iris and Gillian
