Weird Wednesday: All Aboard!
My first introduction to Ozzy Osbourne was the iconic riff from the song Crazy Train. Even if you don’t like heavy metal, you know it.
“All Aboard!! Ha ha ha ha.“
Do do. Do do, do do, Do do.
“I, I, I.”
Okay. I’ll spare you the phonetic rendition of one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time.
As newly teened teenagers, there was nothing better than playing air guitar to this song. Not to mention that all of our parents hated him. And he bit the head off of a bat!
I may have heard some Black Sabbath sounds before 1980, but I can’t recall. My only access to music was rural AM radio, which wasn’t known for anything other than top 40 pop, rock, and disco.
When I got an electric guitar, I learned to play the opening of Smoke on the Water and then the opening Crazy Train. I was the king of playing intros, don’t ya know.
He was known for his onstage antics, excessive drug and alcohol use, and was always a target from religious groups for being satanic. The world got a different view when his reality show “The Osbournes” aired.
At the age of 76, weeks after his final concert delivered sitting on a black throne, The “Prince of Darkness” passed away from years of hard living compounded by Parkinson’s disease.
He will be missed.
-Leon
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.
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