I Am Ozzy

"'Mightily entertaining'," declares Heat magazine, and Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography, I Am Ozzy, certainly lives up to that billing. Confronted with the perennial question of his continued existence, Ozzy himself admits, "People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say." Reflecting on his formative years, the Black Sabbath frontman is brutally honest: "When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and California, I wouldn't have put money on me, no f**king way."

Yet, here he is, ready to tell his story, unfiltered and in his own inimitable voice, for the very first time. Osbourne doesn't shy away from the darker aspects of his past, acknowledging, "A lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I've done some bad things in my time." However, he firmly refutes any simplistic demonisation, stating, "But I ain't the devil. I'm just John Osbourne: a working class kid from Aston, who quit his job in the factory and went looking for a good time."

I Am Ozzy promises to be a raw and candid account of a life lived to the absolute extreme. From his working-class roots in Birmingham to his explosive rise to fame with Black Sabbath and his subsequent solo career, Osbourne's story is one of unparalleled rock and roll excess, personal struggles, and improbable survival. Expect a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of fame, fortune, addiction, and the sheer will to keep going against all odds, all delivered with Ozzy's characteristic bluntness, dark humour, and surprising vulnerability. This is the definitive, no-holds-barred autobiography from a true icon of rock, told exactly as only he can tell it.