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The loss of Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> was heartbreaking for the metal community. <\/p>\n Losing one of the architects of the entire genre, arguably the most famous heavy metal musician of all time, is always going to be a hammer blow, no matter the circumstances. Especially when considering the circumstances in question, it was as much of a surprise as it could have been. The man had just played a massive gig at Villa Park, literally the week before. While he didn\u2019t exactly look well when it happened, those are rarely the actions of a dying man. <\/p>\n However, tucked away in the corner of everyone\u2019s grief was some semblance of comfort. After all, Ozzy got to live a real life. He got to grow old, be a family man, and see the fruits of his labours inspire generations of musicians the world over. He got to survive for a lot longer than, let\u2019s be real here, anyone would have expected because one cursory glance at the behaviour of Ozzy Osbourne in his prime shows a man who played dice with his life hundreds of times and got extremely lucky. <\/p>\n The fact that his intake of drink and drugs was worrying even to other heavy metal bands was only one part of it after all. Putting aside just how mental it is to be too drunk for Black Sabbath, there was also the fact that the bat-biting story<\/a> might have given him rabies. There\u2019s the quad bike crash in 2003. There\u2019s the on-stage attack from a knife-wielding Satanist in 1971. These have all passed into rock \u2018n\u2019 roll myth and legend, which is fair enough. They\u2019re good stories, all of them. <\/p>\n However, as with everything to do with Ozzy Osbourne, the dark side is never far away. The man may have escaped death enough times that a deal with the be-cloaked skeleton himself probably isn\u2019t too far-fetched. Ozzy was a smart man, though. He knew how lucky he was because he knew of many people in his line of work who weren\u2019t. Survivor\u2019s guilt is a punishingly real thing, and if anyone had anything resembling Ozzy\u2019s amount of it, maybe they\u2019d drink a lot too. <\/p>\n
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<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)Who did Ozzy Osbourne lose? <\/p>\n