OZZY grew up in a working-class family and left school at fifteen to work a series of low-paying jobs, earlier than being imprisoned for burglary.

On his release, Osbourne joined a friend’s group, which he temporarily outgrew, becoming a member of every other outfit called Earth (later to turn into Black Sabbath).

Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut studio album on Friday thirteenth February, 1970 and nearly immediately, evolved a cult following in each Britain and America. Unfortunately, Ozzy and the remainder of the group became seriously dependent on alcohol and cocaine, and won a reputation for trashing vehicles and hotel rooms.

In 1977, Osbourne's father passed away, inflicting him to go away the group for a period prior to the discharge of their subsequent studio album ‘Never Say Die’. OZZY Osbourne became increasingly disinterested in Black Sabbath and, at the finish of the ‘Never Say Die’ tour, the group changed him.

After months of despair and drug abuse, OZZY Osbourne met Sharon Arden, who helped him flip his lifestyles around. Sharon encouraged OZZY Osbourne to launch a solo career, and he joined forces with guitarist, Randy Rhoads, to begin work on his 1980 solo debut, ‘Blizzard of Ozz’. The studio album was a powerful success, achieving platinum status.

In 1981, Ozzy released his follow-up, 'Diary of a Madman', which eventually offered greater than five million copies and firmly dependent him as a solo artist in his own right.

Unfortunately, the infamous ‘Diary of a Madman’ tour was probably the most bothered outings in rock history, with misfortune, unhealthy publicity and protests dogging Osbourne the whole way.

After a chain of tragedies and abnormal incidents (including the death of Rhoads in a plane crash) Osbourne sobered up and released a softer, extra personal album, ‘No More Tears’, in 1991. He had announced that the 1992 tour would be his swansong, but made up our minds to position his retirement on grasp and returned with ‘Ozzmosis’ in overdue 1995. In 1996 he headlined the Ozzfest pageant tour.

At the top of the Nineteen Nineties Ozzy also rejoined the unique line-up of Black Sabbath, for a chain of extremely a success live shows. His first studio album of the brand new millennium, ‘Down To Earth’, was released in 2001.

He became a household figure the following yr when his abnormal circle of relatives lifestyles was featured at the MTV reality TV show, ‘The Osbournes’. The display became an overnight hit, and helped lauch the making a song profession of Ozzy's daughter, Kelly.

In December 2003, OZZY Osbourne was rushed to sanatorium in Slough, England after he was interested by an coincidence whilst riding an all-terrain car on his estate in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. The singer broke his collar bone, 8 ribs, and a neck vertebra. An operation was carried out to raise the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on an important artery and interrupting blood flow to the arm. Sharon later discovered that Osbourne had stopped respiring following the crash and was resuscitated via Osbourne's then non-public bodyguard, Sam Ruston.

While within the hospital, Osbourne in fact completed his first ever UK number one single, a duet of the Black Sabbath ballad, "Changes" with daughter Kelly. In doing so, he broke the report of the longest period among an artist's first UK chart appearance (with Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", number 4 in August 1970) and their first number one hit; a gap of 33 years.

Ozzy made a whole recovery and headlined at Ozzfest for the following three years prior to saying his retirement from the event. In May 2007, Osbourne released Black Rain, his first new studio album in nearly six years.

Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets are now on sale for the 2010 North American tour. Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford will be the opening act on the tour. Ozzy Osbourne tour dates includes stops in Canada such as Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto and US dates include East Rutherford and Minneapolis.