The story of Ozzy Osbourne biting the pinnacle off a bat is known and notorious… and sometimes distorted. We acquired a few of your favourite rock and metallic musicians, in addition to some followers, to do their greatest to recall this historic second as they’ve heard it by means of the years.
Members of I Prevail, Corrosion of Conformity and Down, Armored Saint, GWAR, Hollywood Undead, Shadow of Intent and Currents, Three Days Grace, 200 Stab Wounds and extra all attempt to put the items collectively. Followers who had been at this yr’s Sonic Temple pageant attempt to do the identical.
Within the video beneath, you’ll be able to see simply how loopy this story has change into over the past 40-plus years. There’s discuss of a dove (that is a completely completely different story), monkey brains and another issues that take us far, distant from the trail of fact (you’ll be able to thank GWAR for that).
Pepper Keenan even noticed Ozzy in live performance simply a few days after this incident! Ozzy, who had been receiving rabies photographs, got here out in a wig and revealed a bald head beneath. Keenan was blown away.
Ozzy + The Bat: What Actually Occurred?
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The True Story of Ozzy Biting the Head Off a Bat
The place: Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa
When: Jan. 20, 1982
Tour: Diary of a Madman
A 17-year-old fan named Mark Neal is the perpetrator who served because the catalyst to one in all metallic’s most notorious moments that has change into mainstream popular culture legend. He even deliberate it earlier than the live performance, which he received tickets to from a neighborhood radio station.
“I get quite a lot of bizarre individuals at my live shows, it���s rock ’n’ roll,” Ozzy informed David Letterman in 1982. “Any person threw a bat onstage and I assumed it was one in all these toy bats, so I picked it up, chew the factor’s head off and immediately all people is freaking out … I can guarantee you the rabies photographs I went by means of afterwards aren’t enjoyable.”
The bat wasn’t even alive when all of it went down, in accordance the Des Moines Register.
He additionally informed the late evening TV host that the bat tasted “very salty.”
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Gallery Credit score: Joe DiVita