Ozzy Osbourne is featured in a mural inside a pub in The Prince of Darkness’ hometown of Birmingham, England. However, something went terribly awry in its creation.
Per Guitar World, the Birmingham location of the pub chain Wetherspoons is the home of this perplexing mural. The mural is honoring various important moments in the city’s history. Naturally, the formation of Black Sabbath is a notable moment. The mural reads, “1968: Ozzy Osbourne helps to form the band Black Sabbath, in Birmingham.”
The image accompanying the caption, though, is where things get confusing. An era-appropriate photo of Ozzy isn’t used. Instead, a photo of him from the early days of his solo tour is used. That photo? An altered version of a famous photo of Ozzy holding up Randy Rhoads.
But wait, it gets weirder! Rhoads is removed from the photo, so it looks like Ozzy is playing his flying-V guitar instead. And Ozzy doesn’t even play guitar!
Look, you just have to click here and see it to believe it.
Ozzy Osbourne: His Top 40 Solo Songs Ranked
After you get thrown out of one of the most influential bands of all time, what do you do for an encore? Ozzy Osbourne was a misfit, an unusual vocalist, he didn’t play instruments or write songs in the conventional sense… so his former Black Sabbath bandmates probably didn’t see him as someone who would rival them for popularity. Surprise, surprise: Ozzy Osbourne’s long second act has been one of the most surprising and tumultuous in the history of rock and roll.
Sure, the bottom-feeding celebrity news machine loves him as a headline-generating lunatic, but the reason why we still care after all these years is the amazing discography Ozzy has amassed over the decades. Here are our 40 favorite Ozzy jams from 1980 on. As Ozzy prepares to wrap up an incredible career, we listened to everything, from the classic ‘Blizzard Of Ozz’ (every song made the list, except for Randy Rhoads’ solo guitar piece “Dee”) to the advance tracks released from ‘Ordinary Man.’
