Презентация по теме "British Celebrities"

Project on the topic: "British Celebrities".

Prepared

by 10b grade student

Svetlana Romanova

Year of birth

• December 3, 1948 (age 75)

Place of Birth

• Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
• Ozzy Osbourne's real name is John Michael Osbourne. Ozzy was born on December 3, 1948 in the UK, in Birmingham. John Osborne received the nickname “Ozzy” back in his school years: this was the nickname given to him by his classmates for his love of the book “The Wizard of Oz.”
• Ozzy Osbourne went to the same school as Tony Iommi, but at that time they were not friends. Their creative union, which laid the foundation for the Black Sabbath group, was formed a little later.

• At the age of 15, Ozzy was kicked out of school, and, due to the difficult financial situation in the family (he was the fourth of six children), the future rock musician got a job as a plumber's assistant. Subsequently, Ozzy tried to work as a mechanic's assistant, a slaughterman at a slaughterhouse, an auto mechanic, a painter, and even a gravedigger. Unable to find himself in the field of honest labor, young John Osborne tried to earn his living by theft. Having been caught, he was unable to pay the fine and served (according to various sources: one and a half or three) months in a Birmingham prison.It was in prison that Ozzy got his famous “OZZY” tattoo on the phalanges of the fingers of his left hand. After leaving prison, Ozzy decided to try himself as a musician. Just in time, the band “Music Machine” turned up, looking for a vocalist, and Ozzy took his place at the microphone.

• Subsequently, having decided to found his own group, Osborne advertised in a local newspaper looking for like-minded people. Terence Butler (later Geezer Butler), who by that time had been learning to play the electric guitar for six months, came in response to the announcement. A little later, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward joined them - according to the same announcement. With the arrival of Iommi, Butler retrained as a bass player. The joint group was named simply and without any pretense: “Earth”.

• The band's first song was "Black Sabbath", written under the influence of the 1963 horror film of the same name. Before this, the group played exclusively cover versions of songs by other artists. From 1969 to 1970, the group played in various clubs while simultaneously working on their own material. One day, someone noticed the Birmingham four-piece's own song, "Black Sabbath", sparking thoughts about the first record. The young people also found out that there was already a group called “Earth”. So they changed their name to "Black Sabbath" - after their first song. In January 1970, the group managed to record their first album, which took good places in the English and American charts.

• In 1971, Ozzy married for the first time - to a certain Thelma Riley. In 1975, the group decides to change their manager. Don Arden, the father of Sharon Arden, Ozzy's future wife, becomes the new manager of Black Sabbath.

• Following the release of Never Say Die in 1978, which coincided with the death of Ozzy's father, he became depressed, heavily abusing alcohol and hard drugs. After Osbourne failed to show up for rehearsals for a month, Tony Iommi decided to get rid of him. Iommi already had sketches for the next album, Heaven And Hell, and he also managed to meet Ronnie James Dio, who had recently left Rainbow and did not have his own band at that time. The task of informing Ozzy that the band no longer wished to work with him was carried out by Bill Ward. Both Ozzy and Tony Iommi admitted in subsequent interviews that this was precisely a dismissal.

• After leaving Black Sabbath, Ozzy spent his time idle until Sharon Arden, the daughter of his former band's manager, persuaded him to start a new group. Osborne put an ad in the newspaper looking for musicians. One of the guitarists who auditioned was Randall William Rhoads. As Rhoads said in one of his few interviews, he did not know who he would have to work with. There Randy connected his equipment and began to “warm up”. Suddenly, Ozzy appeared in the room and pronounced “Accepted!” and ignored the guitarist’s objections that he had not yet started playing. Bassist Bob Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake also joined the band. With this lineup they released their first album “Blizzard of Ozz”

• To release his solo album, Ozzy Osbourne needed a record deal. After numerous refusals, Ozzy eventually managed to reach an agreement with the CBS studio. To change his impressions of himself for the better, Ozzy, on Sharon's advice, brought two pigeons to the company's office - with the initial intention of releasing them in front of the amazed public and thus attracting public attention. The trick worked, although not quite as intended. Having released the first pigeon - as expected, Osborne unexpectedly bit off the head of the second. This action was captured by a studio photographer, and soon the photographs appeared in most newspapers.

• A year later, Ozzy and his band recorded their second album, The Diary of a Madman. According to Osborne himself, this album turned out better than the previous one. However, the musicians themselves looked back at the charts: competitors in the form of Black Sabbath with the album “Mob Rules” only reached 29th position, while “Diary of a Madman” spent some time in the Top-15.

• During the tour, Ozzy amused himself by throwing raw meat at the audience who came to his concerts. However, this was part of the contract: during the concert, Osborne had to throw about ten kilograms of veal liver and pork offal into the hall. Sometimes this part of the show took unexpected turns: for example, after one of the concerts, someone called the band’s management and asked how to wash off raw blood.

• During Ozzy's flight, his wife Sharon and bassist Rudy Sarzo were asleep on the bus, and the pilot made three sharp descents to wake them up. During the fourth, the plane was flying about three meters above the ground and its left wing touched the back of the bus. Most of the plane flew over the bus and crashed into a large pine tree before crashing onto the north wall and roof of the garage on the west side of the house. The plane crashed into a house and immediately exploded. All three passengers died.

• In 1986, Ozzy was arrested. The allegations presented to the singer were that a 19-year-old teenager shot himself after being inspired by the song "Suicide Solution". The prosecution argued that the song itself contained special noises that affected the subconscious and hypnotized the listener. Osbourne's lawyers were able to prove that there were no extraneous sounds on the recording, and the lyrics of the song themselves could not be the subject of a lawsuit. By the way, it should be noted that the lyrics of the song itself do not call for suicide: the song compares excessive addiction to alcohol to suicide. According to Ozzy, he wrote the song "Suicide Solution" under the influence of news of the death of AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott.

• In 1986, Ozzy recorded the album "The Ultimate Sin" and went on tour in support of both albums. Ozzy later said that this album was the poorest in terms of musical ideas. The album also turned out to have the softest, diluted synthesizer sound. The textual concept was based on ideas of peace and non-violence.
• After a long break in 1994, Ozzy announced the future release of a new album, recorded with the teaching of Steve Wai. He also teams up with Therapy to sing lead vocals on “Iron Man” for the Black Sabbath cover album Nativity in Black.

• In 1997, rumors of a Black Sabbath reunion became reality. The group reunited with the original lineup and, taking Vinnie Apisi as a “replacement”, organized an international tour. 2 new songs were recorded, but the promised album was never released. Gradually, Ozzy and Tony returned to solo activities. In 2001, Ozzy's album "Down to Earth" was released, demonstrating an even heavier sound and excellent quality of material, so the new release, perhaps, even surpassed Ozzmosis. There were also lyrics - even pop radio stations eagerly played the song “Dreamer”.
• On March 5, 2002, an event occurred that significantly changed the idea not only of Ozzy Osbourne himself, Sharon Osbourne and the entire Osbourne family, but also of the private life of a rock musician in general.

• We are talking about the series "The Osbournes", which debuted on MTV that day. Before this, for several months in a row, television cameras were installed in the same Osborne house in Beverly Hills - filming was carried out even in the bedrooms and toilets! - day after day they recorded the daily life of the entire family. However, not everything. Aimee's eldest daughter refused to act and temporarily moved to another Ozzy house. The debut episode was watched by 6 million people around the world!..
• The series "The Osbournes" brought such popularity to Ozzy all over the world that even those in power noticed him. First, US President George W. Bush invited Ozzy and Sharon to a gala banquet at the White House. In addition to the Osbournes, there were Hollywood stars Glenne Close, Rockwell Welch and Harrison Ford. Knowing about Ozzy's eccentric character and his willingness to make unimaginable jokes in absolutely any company, the president's security guards, as well as the representatives of the press present, did not take their eyes off the Osbournes.

• On December 8, 2003, Ozzy, while riding an ATV around his home in Birmingham, fell off, breaking eight ribs and seriously damaging his cervical vertebrae. Osborne comes to his senses only two days later. This news is even being discussed in the House of Commons, where everyone sincerely wishes Osborne good health. Many musicians also wished Ozzy a speedy recovery; “Maestro of Horror” Alice Cooper himself sent the patient several picture books. And The Sun newspaper decided to cheer up the patient in an individual style and sent Ozzy a bat-shaped cake to his ward.
• Even while in the hospital after a serious accident, Ozzy Osbourne sets a new record in the history of rock music. His new composition "Changes", recorded with his daughter Kelly, again topped the British charts. This happened exactly 33 years, three months and 23 days after his band Black Sabbath's single entered the top five in England for the first time.