Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne (born December 3 1948, in Aston, West Midlands, England), born as John Michael Osbourne, was the lead singer of the rock band Black Sabbath and later a popular solo artist and reality television star. Osbourne has been marrie

Ozzy Osbourne (born December 3 1948, in Aston, West Midlands, England), born as John Michael Osbourne, was the lead singer of the rock band Black Sabbath and later a popular solo artist and reality television star. Osbourne has been married twice and is father to five children: Jessica Hobbs and Louis Osbourne by first wife Thelma Riley; and Aimee, Kelly and Jack, by current wife Sharon.

When Ozzy was in school he was classmates with his future guitarist Tony Iommi. Ozzy and Tony had terrible conflicts. "I hated the sight of him," said Iommi in an interview with Guitar World. Ozzy earned his nickname in his youth, sought a career as a rock singer after hearing The Beatles on the radio, hoping that it would lift him out of his difficult working-class existence, in which he had some scrapes with the law. Ozzy was not a particularly talented criminal. He wore gloves to steal from houses and shops so as not to leave fingerprints, but they were fingerless gloves and he was soon arrested. He was sentenced to six weeks at Winson Green Prison. He used his time there to give himself his now famous tattoos: OZZY across his knuckles and a smiling face on each knee to cheer himself up.