Ozzy Osbourne Drops The Bomb
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, June 1986
SOME PEOPLE collect plastic airline coffee stirrers. Ozzy Osbourne collects scandals. Or rather scandal unlike the South East London garbage service collects Ozzy, on a regular basis.
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