

He bit the head off a bat, collapsed onstage, urinated at the Alamo and lost guitarist Randy Rhoads in a horrific plane crash. There was one two-month stretch in early 1982 that to this day defines the perception of the Prince of Darkness. The drug and alcohol addicted Osbourne was arguably at his most rip-roaring career peak when it came to ingesting substances of ill repute in the early '80s, and it landed him in trouble with the law, posed a danger to his health and acted as a coping mechanism when he suffered the greatest loss imaginable. Still, the former Black Sabbath frontman was able to put forth a respectable LP, one which would attain status as a fan favorite despite the circumstances leading up to and during its production. To say that the period in between the records was turbulent would be an understatement of epic proportions, as it saw a slew of personal and professional issues take place with almost none of them for the better. 15, 1983, it had been two years since the critically acclaimed Diary of a Madman came out. When Ozzy Osbourne released his third solo album Bark at the Moon on Nov.
