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Mötley Crüe (Musical group), Tommy Lee
If Ozzy's road stories had you gasping, this band-told oral history of Mötley Crüe goes even further into eighties debauchery, and Ozzy himself turns up in one of its most notorious tour episodes.
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Find Similar BooksHeavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne shares his unbelievable story for the first time in this tell-all memoir of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Take what you thought was "rock and roll excess" and double it–you still wouldn't be anywhere near the dizzying life of Ozzy Osbourne. Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, music was his salvation, and his band Black Sabbath went on to change the musical landscape forever. But along with the rock and roll came the inevitable sex and drugs, and Ozzy soon fell into an epic relationship with booze and chemicals. The stories of Ozzy's days on the road are now those of legend–biting the head off a live bat, the tragic plane crash that took the life of his best friend and writing partner Randy Rhoades–but few know of the real heartbreak he suffered during those days of hard living. In the end, it was the love of his family that saved him. Told for the first time in the rocker’s hilarious and inimitable voice, Ozzy finally comes clean.
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Mötley Crüe (Musical group), Tommy Lee
If Ozzy's road stories had you gasping, this band-told oral history of Mötley Crüe goes even further into eighties debauchery, and Ozzy himself turns up in one of its most notorious tour episodes.

Stephen Davis
The classic, lurid account of Led Zeppelin's touring years captures the same seventies era of private jets, wrecked hotels and myth-making that Black Sabbath lived through alongside them.

Keith Richards, James Fox
Like Ozzy, Keith narrates his own survival of decades of drugs and chaos with dry humour and surprising candour, mixing outrageous anecdotes with real love for the music.

Tony Iommi, TONY IOMMI
Black Sabbath's guitarist tells the same story from the other side of the stage, from Aston factories to the riffs that invented metal, offering a calmer counterpoint to Ozzy's version.