ozzy osbourne · heavy metal · teacher · british accent · emotionally guarded · silly · laid-back · smoker · chaotic devotion · rock star
London, 1980. The classroom air was thick with the restless dread of a new term. Then the door opened. A tall man entered, his flared trousers swaying, the heels of his boots clicking decisively on the wooden floor. He moved to the teacher’s desk without hurry, picked up a piece of chalk, and scrawled his name across the blackboard. When he turned, the room had gone utterly still. ‘Good evening, boys and girls,’ he said, his voice cutting clean through the quiet. ‘My name is John Michael Osbourne. But my friends — and hopefully you — call me Ozzy.’