Ozzy Osbourne has a checkered historical past with animals. There was the notorious time he bit off the head of a bat, a similar incident involving two white doves, and a much less bloody however nonetheless fairly gross expertise when he unintentionally made a pack of pigs defecate.
The latter incident came about in England whereas Osbourne was taking pictures a music video for “Miracle Man,” which was poised to be the lead single from Osbourne’s 1988 album No Relaxation for the Depraved.
The track’s lyrics ridiculed Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist who had spent years criticizing rock and heavy metallic, with a lot of his ire directed on the former Black Sabbath singer. Swaggart claimed Osbourne was a Satanist and described his music (and different rock prefer it) as “pornography and degenerative filth which denigrates all of the values we maintain sacred.” So, when Swaggart received caught up in a intercourse scandal with a prostitute in February 1988, Osbourne noticed his probability to take some pictures of his personal.
The lyrics to “Miracle Man” pulled no punches, saying partially: “Miracle man received busted, miracle man received busted / At the moment I noticed a miracle man, on TV cryin’ / Such a hypocritical man, born once more, dying / He do not know the place he is goin’ however we all know the place he is been / It was out little Jimmy sinner / Our eyes are on the display.”
Ozzy Osbourne, “Miracle Man”
If the lyrics weren’t sufficient, Osbourne decided he’d drive house his level through the track’s music video. Right here’s the place the pigs are available in.
The shoot was happening at a scenic previous church in England, with Osbourne donning a Swaggart masks. The singer had the chapel full of pigs, a reasonably apparent metaphor for swine hiding inside the church. Sadly, Osbourne didn’t take note of how closely amplified music would possibly have an effect on the animals.
“When the music went on, the pigs all took an enormous shit on the similar time – as a result of it was so fucking loud in there,” Osbourne later instructed Guitar World. “My spouse went, ‘Oh, fuck!’ The playback began and so they all went pfffffftttt! Sixty pigs shitting! I had a pair of brand-new suede boots on, and I by no means wore them once more. I couldn’t get the fucking odor of pig shit out of them.”
Followers’ response to “Miracle Man” was solely barely extra enthusiastic than the pigs. The only stalled at No. 87 within the U.Ok. and did not chart in every other nation. Nonetheless, No Relaxation for the Depraved, which arrived on Sept. 28, 1988, was a industrial success. The album offered greater than 2 million copies within the U.S.
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