Ozzy Osbourne's life on and off the stage was filled with countless OMG moments. Throughout his career, the Black Sabbath member kept fans guessing with what he was going to say - and do - next. Over the years, Osbourne made headlines for reportedly stripping in Germany, painting his nose purple and accidentally peeing on an unmarked police car during a late night in Tennessee. Some of his memorable antics were even featured on the MTV reality show, The Osbournes, which documented Osbourne's life with his family. Celebrity Deaths of 2025: Stars We've Lost This Year "The reality show wasn't anything different than our regular life, because that's the way we are anyway," he told Spin magazine in December 2023. "We didn't become the Osbournes that you see just for the show. That's the way we are, and all they did was take funny bits out of it." While life understandably slowed down for Osbourne once he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 2019, the musician lived life to the fullest until news broke of his death on Tuesday, July 22. "He was with his family and surrounded by love," Osbourne's family shared in a statement to Us Weekly. "We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time." Keep reading to learn more about some of Osbourne's wildest moments over his lifetime: Ozzy Osbourne Receives the 'Prince of Darkness' Nickname Ozzy Osbourne Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Inspired by the horror genre, Osborne's rock group wrote the song "Black Sabbath," which became the title track of the band's 1970 debut album. According to Osbourne, fans' reactions to the song's sound helped launch his unique nickname. "When we started gigging way back when, as soon as we started playing this song's opening chords, young girls in the audience would ... freak out," Osbourne told NME in 2016. "They thought we were Satan's ... friends or something." "That's when the whole Prince Of Darkness s*** started," he continued. "When people get excited about Halloween coming around each year, all I think is, 'Well, we used to have Halloween every f***ing night.'" Kelly Osbourne's Quotes About Ozzy Osbourne's Illness Before His Death Ozzy Osbourne Bites a Bat During a visit to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1982, Osbourne somehow found himself biting off a bat's head. "I thought it was one of those rubber bats," he recalled on an episode of Night Flight. "I picked it up and it was a real bat, you know?" When asked if the bat was alive when Osbourne picked it up, he replied it was "until I bit the head off it." In the 1992 documentary Don't Blame Me: The Tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Osbourne said he needed to get medical attention after the incident. "The guy said, 'We better give you some precautionary rabies shots,'" he recalled. "I had one in each rear, one in each arm, and one in the top of my leg - and I had to have that every night." Ozzy Osbourne Visits the White House Ozzy Osbourne PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images While attending the 2002 White House Correspondents' Dinner, Osbourne was thrilled to receive a shoutout from President George W. Bush. "Washington power brokers, celebrities, Hollywood stars, Ozzy Osbourne," the president said when describing the crowd, before the musician stood on a table and started blowing kisses. Bush later joked, "OK, Ozzy. Might have been a mistake." How Many Children Does Ozzy Osbourne Have? Meet the Late Rocker's Kids Ozzy Osbourne Throws TV Out the Hotel Window In March of 2020, the Black Sabbath singer pushed a 50-inch TV set through a ninth-floor window of a Four Seasons in Prague. "I ripped the television off the wall," he recalled on his Boneyard radio show. "It landed on the floor and f***ing exploded. It went like a bomb. ... I had to pay three months for the room and the repair of the f***ing window." Ozzy Osbourne's Love of Shaving Off Eyebrows Ozzy Osbourne Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for MTV According to Slade musician Noddy Holder, Osbourne came up with an idea of shaving people's eyebrows if they dozed off in the lounge of a tour bus. "Ozzy Osbourne started that!" Holder shared on Planet Rock radio. "If you passed out with Ozzy - whether you were drinking or whatever - he would shave your eyebrows. I could always keep up with Ozzy, so he never did it to me, but quite often he'd shave people's eyebrows. Of course, when they wake up in the morning and they look in the mirror, they know there's something wrong, but they don't realise their eyebrows have gone." Ozzy Osbourne Throws Meat on His Audiences When concertgoers attended one of Osbourne's concerts, they were in for a literal show. "I always liked old movies that used to have these custard-pie fights," Osbourne explained in The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne documentary. "It gave me this idea to throw, instead of pie, bits of meat and animal parts into the audience. I thought it was hilarious. [They'd throw back] sheep testicles, live snakes, dead rats, all kinds of things. Someone once threw a live frog onto onstage. It was the bigges
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July 22, 2025
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