Ozzy Concert Tickets 2010 Tour

On his release, Osbourne joined a friend’s band, which he briefly outgrew, joining every other outfit known as Earth (later to grow to be Black Sabbath).

Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut studio album on Friday 13th February, 1970 and nearly immediately, evolved a cult following in each Britain and America. Unfortunately, Ozzy and the rest of the band became severely dependent on alcohol and cocaine, and received a reputation for trashing automobiles and hotel rooms.

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

After months of depression and drug abuse, Osbourne met Sharon Arden, who helped him flip his lifestyles around. Sharon inspired Osbourne to release a solo career, and he joined forces with guitarist, Randy Rhoads, to start work on his 1980 solo debut, ‘Blizzard of Ozz’. The studio album was once a convincing success, achieving platinum status.

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

Unfortunately, the infamous ‘Diary of a Madman’ tour was once one of the most stricken outings in rock history, with misfortune, dangerous exposure and protests dogging Osbourne the entire way.

After a series of tragedies and bizarre incidents (including the loss of life of Rhoads in a plane crash) Osbourne sobered up and released a softer, more personal album, ‘No More Tears’, in 1991. He had introduced that the 1992 excursion can be his swansong, but made up our minds to put his retirement on cling and again with ‘Ozzmosis’ in past due 1995. In 1996 he headlined the Ozzfest festival tour.

At the top of the 1990s Ozzy also rejoined the original line-up of Black Sabbath, for a series of highly a success live shows. His first studio album of the new millennium, ‘Down To Earth’, was once released in 2001.

He became a household figure the next yr while his bizarre circle of relatives lifestyles was once featured at the MTV reality TV show, ‘The Osbournes’. The display became an overnight hit, and helped lauch the singing career of Ozzy's daughter, Kelly.

In December 2003, Osbourne was once rushed to hospital in Slough, England after he was once interested by an twist of fate at the same time as riding an all-terrain vehicle on his estate in Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. The singer broke his collar bone, 8 ribs, and a neck vertebra. An operation was once performed to boost the collarbone, which was once believed to be resting on a tremendous artery and interrupting blood waft to the arm. Sharon later discovered that Osbourne had stopped breathing following the crash and was once resuscitated through Osbourne's then personal bodyguard, Sam Ruston.

While in the hospital, Osbourne in truth 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 file of the longest period among an artist's first UK chart look (with Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", quantity four in August 1970) and their first number one hit; a gap of 33 years.

Ozzy made an entire restoration and headlined at Ozzfest for the next 3 years prior to pronouncing 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, Winnipeg, Montreal and US dates include East Rutherford and Cleveland.