Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #472594 in Books
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Most entertaining book I have EVER read!
Seriously - if I could count the number of times I woke up the family laughing out loud in the middle of the night... I TRULY LOVED this book, but then again - I adore Ozzy and it's PURE OZZY at his most bare and truthful (and witty)! What a rare treat inside his sweet and crazy mind! I only wish this book could have gone on forever!

seriously awesome
This is really an incredible memoir. It's thoroughly entertaining from the first page to the last. It reads extremely fast and retains a sense of humor even in the darkest days (which as I am sure you know, are really, really dark). Ozzy's stories have become those of legend, but it's great to actually get them from the man himself in his own voice. And like I said, the book is very funny and extremely well done.

Such an incredible life to come from one that started out with no options other than becoming a factory worker. Black Sabbath literally invented heavy metal. This really was one of the best memoirs in any genre that I have ever read. Fascinating.

Very, very highly recommended.

Ozzy continues to flourish with each new creative partnership
How could Ozzy write a book? He's dyslexic and doesn't read. Well, how can he write songs if he's musically illiterate and doesn't play an instrument? The answer in both cases is that he gets help and he succeeds brilliantly. What's most surprising about this book is how much it sounds like Ozzy. I didn't think Ozzy's voice and sense of humor would come through in print, but they definitely do. Clearly, he dictated lots of material into a tape recorder, and his co-author did a great job of preserving and bringing out Ozzy's unique persona.

This book further confirms for me what I've always said: that Ozzy is a songwriting genius. Lots of people assume that he has just sponged off the talents around him from Iommi/Ward to Rhoads/Daisley to Lee to Wylde. But I've always said, look at what all those people have done before/and/or/after their time with Ozzy. Not much worthwhile in all cases. Meanwhile Ozzy continues to flourish with each new creative partnership.

The book is thin in lots of places where you'd like to hear more, and it runs a little long in other places where you've heard the stories before. The Jake E. Lee era is omitted completely. That's a shame. Ozzy should get over that resentment. He's won. Jake has done nothing worth speaking about without Ozzy, and meanwhile Ozzy has continued to receive acclaim for the past twenty plus years since Jake.

Any true Ozzy fan will love this book.