Ozzy Osbourne: I Am Ozzy

To my extended family, my staff: Michael Guarracino and wife Denny and son Jesse; John Fenton and wife Sandee; Kevin Thomson; Silvana Arena; Lynn Seager; Claire Smith; David and Sharon Godman; Jude Alcala; Bob Troy; Saba; Dari; Trino; Steve and Melinda Varga, Lukey and Scarley girl (who said that?).

Very special thanks to my best friend Tony Dennis (way’ye son, cumin’ have a pint, his dad’s got a boat and his mam’s got a bike).

My dear friends, Mrs Delores Rhoads; Pete Mertens, his wife Danielle, and daughter Phoebe; Gloria Butler; and my friend and co-producer Kevin Churk.

Antonia Hodgson, who has driven me mad to write this book.

Chris Ayres, my co-author on this book. Thank you for organising my life stories into book form. I couldn’t have done it without you.

Zakk and Barbaranne Wylde, my godson Jesse, Haley-Rae and Hendrix Wylde.

My band: Mike Bordin and family; Merilee, Abby and Violet; Blasko and his wife Carol; Adam Wakeman and his family.

And all my four-legged angels who shit in my house every day.

Copyright © 2009 by Ozzy Osbourne

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‘Other people’s memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain’t gonna argue with ’em. Over the past forty years I’ve been loaded on booze, coke, acid, Quaaludes, glue, cough mixture, heroin, Rohypnol, Klonopin, Vicodin, and too many other heavy-duty substances to list in this footnote. On more than a few occasions I was on all of those at the same time. I’m not the fucking Encyclopaedia Britannica, put it that way. What you read here is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.

Nothing more, nothing less…