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Barcode30053003812453
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoB OSBO
Title Ozzy & me : life lessons, wild stories, and unexpected epiphanies from forty years of friendship with the Prince of Darkness / Stephen Rea.
Author Rea, Stephen, 1969- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Biography
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003812453B OSBO12/9/2025 Available

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Personal Name Rea, Stephen, 1969- author.
Title Statement Ozzy & me : life lessons, wild stories, and unexpected epiphanies from forty years of friendship with the Prince of Darkness / Stephen Rea.
Varying Form of Title Ozzy and me.
Varying Form of Title Life lessons, wild stories, and unexpected epiphanies from forty years of friendship with the Prince of Darkness.
Imprint First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2025.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Physical Description 288 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Content Type still image rdacontent.
Content Type text rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier.
Summary, Etc. "Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year "The Troubles" began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to pick at the bullet holes in the walls. He found refuge from this turmoil in heavy metal -- especially the music of Ozzy Osbourne. As a pre-internet teenager, he hunted down dozens of live concert bootlegs -- corresponding by mail with collectors around the world -- and devoured every music magazine he could find. In 1984, when Stephen was fifteen, he read about a huge festival in Rio de Janeiro that January called "Rock In Rio" whose bill included AC/DC, Queen, and Osbourne. As a lark, he mentioned it to his dad, and was stunned when he said they should go. He was even more shocked when his mother, looking for information about how to get tickets, began a correspondence with Osbourne's secretary, who scored the family VIP passes and introduced them to Osbourne in Brazil. Thus began a friendship with Ozzy, his wife Sharon and the rest of the Osbourne family that has continued for decades. While traveling on tour in the mid-nineties, Ozzy gifted Stephen a pair of fancy leather notebooks and told him to keep a record of their adventures and conversations. The result is Ozzy & Me: a beautiful behind-the-scenes memoir that proves the life-affirming, soul-nourishing power of music -- and disproves the notion that you should never meet your heroes" --Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Osbourne, Ozzy, 1948-2025.
Subject-Personal Name Rea, Stephen, 1969-
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Friendship.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works. lcgft.

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