The Wit & Wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne or For the Best Coke Call Black Sabbath
Harold Bronson, UCLA Daily Bruin, 30 June 1972
"FOR THE BEST COKE, just ring three-eight-nine-oh-nine-eight, only one hundred dollars!" exclaimed a very stoned Ozzy Osbourne as he grinned stupidly from behind a microphone in studio "B" at Hollywood's Record Plant, where Black Sabbath were finishing up their fourth LP. "I'm so stoned," Ozzy moans while gesturing like Frank Sinatra.
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