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"Everyone was going mad about Oasis, but I preferred Blur": Jack Osbourne picks the soundtrack to his life

These are the albums and bands that have shaped Jack Osbourne's tastes

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“I was worried about the album. Someone said it was more commercial. I thought, ‘Oh God, what‘s that supposed to mean?”: how Magnum made their masterpiece On A Storyteller’s Night and saved themselves from oblivion

Late Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin created one of the most beloved British rock records of the 1980s in the shape of On A Storyteller’s Night

Louder

An Ozzy Osbourne music school with "55 years of memorabilia" is being worked on in Birmingham, according to Sharon

Sharon Osbourne explains why Birmingham means so much to Ozzy, and reveals that a special new project involving the Prince Of Darkness is underway

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“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

When guitarist Scott Black asked his grandmother for a Machine Head album, she bought him Deep Purple’s Machine Head – and so began a journey into mixing folk prog with 70s rock

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"It's like a song from a parallel universe!" The funkiest, grooviest Korn remix ever just dropped, and it's got a classic Black Sabbath solo stitched in

Ignore all that Blue Monday nonsense, and get your groove on with this fiercely infectious new Korn mash-up

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Ozzy Osbourne praises T-Pain for ‘the best cover of War Pigs ever’

Black Sabbath frontman asked: ‘Why didn’t you guys call me?’

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"Why didn’t you guys call me?" Ozzy Osbourne calls T-Pain's cover of Black Sabbath classic War Pigs the best ever - and T-Pain is delighted

T-Pain's impressive cover of Black Sabbath's War Pigs has received the highest praise!

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The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection

The BBC are to auction off a staggering 285,000 vinyl records over the next year-and-a-half, starting from January 30

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Learn 10 essential guitar rock riffs for beginner players

Get started with the classics from the Beatles to the Stones, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Hendrix and more

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“He was a superb craftsman who loved what he did”: Tony Iommi pays tribute to ‘Old Boy’ SG luthier John Diggins, who has died

Diggins began his career working for John Birch – the Birmingham, UK-based luthier who partnered with Iommi early in the Black Sabbath legend's career – and later struck out on his own, founding Jaydee Custom Guitars

Guitar World

“I’m so fortunate not to have died. I’ve overdosed, been pistol-whipped, shot at, stabbed, run over in a car... and I’m still here”: Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, has lived the lives of 10 men, and he's not finished yet

Glenn Hughes, The Voice of Rock, looks back upon a lifetime of fabulous, and sometimes terrifying, rock 'n' roll adventures

Louder

Ozzy slams clickbait death hoax video: "I'm not dead. I'm not going any-f***ing-where."

Black Sabbath icon Ozzy Osbourne gives his take on internet death hoaxes – and reiterates desire to return to the stage

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16 famous musicians who almost joined very famous bands

Best of 2023: What could have been: featuring The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Beatles, Van Halen, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and more

MusicRadar

"I was torn between Ozzy and Genesis - what the hell do I do?": A story of "the next Black Sabbath", missed opportunities and vanished dreams

Necromandus were earmarked as the next Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath themselves - but their dreams were not fulfilled

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Lzzy Hale: 10 records that changed my life

Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale talks the albums that changed her life, from Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper to Sevendust and Disturbed

The Independent UK

‘I’m Shane MacGowan’s undertaker… after pulling him pints for 20 years’

The man in charge of The Pogues singer’s funeral also used to run his favourite pub in Tipperary

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"Our intention was to go out on stage and destroy all living things": How Gene Simmons intimidated Geezer Butler when Kiss supported Black Sabbath

Kiss supported Black Sabbath for three dates on the Sabotage tour, and Gene Simmons remembers it well

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Sharon Osbourne once pooped in Ozzy’s weed: “When he found out, he went nuts and chased us down the hallway!”

Kelly Osbourne revealed her mum’s… unique way of keeping the Prince Of Darkness off drugs during a new episode of the Osbournes podcast

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10 times metal musicians covered their own songs in other bands

Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson and Jason Newsted have all recreated metal classics with all-new lineups around them

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32 Great Songs Featured In Almost Famous

Almost Famous is jam packed with carefully chosen classic rock tracks and other favorites.

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Jack Osbourne doesn’t think his dad Ozzy will ever tour again – but doesn’t rule out “one-off shows”

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s son doesn’t see a future tour from the Prince Of Darkness

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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary featuring Slipknot, Slayer and System Of A Down is finally coming out “after 20 years”

We Sold Our Souls For Rock ’N’ Roll, directed by Wayne’s World’s Penelope Spheeris, has been given the green light by Sharon Osbourne after two decades on the shelf

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Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best

We’ve listed the 40 covers that metal’s biggest band recorded in the studio and released to the public in reverse-order of excellence

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Black Sabbath and Napoleon are a match made in Heaven (and Hell)

A heavily doctored version of Black Sabbath's iconic War Pigs is burning up the internet via a trailer for Ridley Scott's upcoming Napoleon blockbuster

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“It was a very weird beast because all the bands were our mates, but the managers were greedy": Sharon Osbourne reveals why we can't have Ozzfest any more

Sharon Osbourne says that Ozzfest is no longer cost-effective because band managers got greedy

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