"Diary of a madman" is an ok album but it's fair to say that if Ozzy hadn't been who he was then it's likely it would have got much less attention. There's no real evidence of Sabbath in his solo work that I've seen; he might as well have come up as a new artiste for all the recognisable music there is there. Also as Batlord says, the "Prince of Darkness"/biting the head off a dove, bat, whatever thing, all made him into more of a parody of himself than he could ever have imagined. And then there was "The Osbournes", which eclipsed in **** and destroyed for me any cred he ever had and made him worse than Alice Cooper on the golf course.
But he did have one redeeming feature: Randy Rhoads, god rest his soul...
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