Ozzy Osbourne: Big Oz I Love You
Steven Wells, NME, 13 May 1989
Why does MR OSBOURNE bite the heads off small animals? Ozzy can. Get it? Is Oz a fat geriatric bastard who'd be better off playing Widow Twanky at the Bradford Alhambra? Or is he the ever youthful bulging-trousered spirit of rock n' roll frenzy? STEVEN WELLS went to Spain to track the man-monster down
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