Flash forward another ten years, and Ozzy had pivoted to another new guise. Ozzy was now the imbecilic patriarch of The Osbournes—perpetually confused, mentally compromised, and shaking with apparent post-addiction tremors, the Prince of Darkness was reduced to calling out for Sharon like a helpless child stranded in a high chair whenever he couldn’t work the remote control. This version of Ozzy was born many years earlier, in Penelope Spheeris’s monumental 1988 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, in which Ozzy is interviewed in his bathrobe as he makes
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