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Some sad news, really sad news, but actually a kind of sweet news as well.

The great Aussie Osbourne has passed away.

But I'll say this about Ozzy Osbourne.

That guy was a mould breaker and he went out on his own terms.

He knew he was dying and he'd had a really rough last couple of years as well.

But he still managed to put together a farewell concert, not that long ago in the last two weeks in his home city of Birmingham, in the UK, which is an incredible way to go out. Oh, wouldn't you love to go out like that? Yes. And having interviewed Ozzy as well. And, you know, a lot of people talk today about him and Black Sabbath and, you know, basically handing out the blueprints and creating heavy metal. And then obviously, many, many years later, no one saw that they would then,

the Osbournes, invent reality TV. Yeah. Just to love the Osbournes. That was such a good show.

There wasn't, people don't realise because it's all to all reality TV now. There was a day when

there was the first time we ever saw a show like that.

And that was the Osbournes.

And Ozzy, who gave himself the name, The Prince of Darkness,

suddenly came into the light as a shuffling dad.

Yes.

That's what my real joy of Ozzy is of a beloved dad who just loved staying at home.

Watching telly.

In his robe, trying to find the remote yelling at Sharon he could never find the remote like any other schleby dad wasn't this the guy that ate a bat on stage yes not once not twice and I'd have a rabies shot yeah quite quite a life from the Prince of Darkness, but a real, real one-off.

An incredible guy. Yeah, real legend. I was lucky to interview Ozzy as well a couple

of times and Sharon and his son, Jack. He's got a very big loving family as well with Kelly, Jack.

And I think there's about six or seven kids. It's a really big family. Yeah, yeah. And the other

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