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Ozzie Trivia Part I: Accolades, Awards, Achievements
Ozzy Trivia Part I Accolades/Awards/Achievements by Roxanne McDonald
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I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy’s dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I’ve always sold out, so who’s saying it’s all over? ~ Ozzy Osbourne |
So involved is Ozzy’s trivia that I had to split the entries, which include with this one–Ozzy Trivia Part I Accolades/Awards/Achievements—the following:
Ozzy Trivia Part II Rumors and Rumblings…
Ozzy Trivia Part III Appearances, Associations, and Inclinations
Ozzy Trivia Volume IV Actions and Arrests
Accolades/Awards/Achievements
After Ozzy left Sabbath, formed Law—was so broke he had to steal the new band’s music equipment from a warehouse
After only two gigs, Law changed their name to the Blizzard of Oz.
2000 – Grammy for “I Don’t Want to Change the World” [on Live and Loud album]: only Grammy Ozzy has ever won.
2001- Nominated for MTV Award for Best Cameo in a Movie (Little Nicky).
2002- Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Personality.
2002 [April 12] - Honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
2004 - NME award for “Godlike Genius”.
2005 [November 16] Black Sabbath inducted into UK Music Hall of Fame [for outstanding contribution to British music and as integral part of British music culture].
2007 – Mojo Awards Icon Gong.
2007 [May 18] It was announced that Ozzy would be the first inductee of The Birmingham Walk of Stars, the induction ceremony to occur July 6.
2007 [May 24] Ozzie honored at the Second Annual VH1 Rock Honors. Was one of the first “shock rockers.”
Black Sabbath named on 100 Greatest Rock ‘n Roll Artists of all Time by Rolling Stone [no.85].
Black Sabbath named by DigitalDreamDoors’ 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs [no. 18, for “Paranoid” and no. 53, for “N.I.B.”; as well as no. 101 for “Sweet Leaf”, no.133 for “Sabbra Cadabra”, no.138 for “Children of the Grave”, no.145 for “Electric Funeral”, no. 149 for “Black Sabbath”, no. 158 for “Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath”, no.167 for “War Pigs”, no.173 for “Into the Void”—and Sabbath’s Tommy Iommi named no.2 on 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs Creators]
Ozzy named for 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs [no. 19, for “Crazy Train”]
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne ranked by Sunday Times Rich List as one of the UK’s richest couples [coming in at no. 458], ranking above most British rockers (including Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Queen).
Ozzy’s duet re-make of “Changes”, done with daughter Kelly, went directly to no. 1 within a week after its release.
* Every single original content album of Ozzy’s has gone platinum [30 million sold in the U.S.; 75 million sold worldwide]. Two are quadruple platinums [Blizzard of Ozz, 1980, and No More Tears, 1991], and another, Live and Loud, ranking no. 10 on the charts, has gone mani-platinum.
Black Sabbath has sold over 70 million albums.
I’ll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff. ~Ozzy Osbourne
In 1993, Ozzy claimed touring fatigue and announced what would turn out to be a recalled retirement: by 1995, his entire discography had been remastered, he released Ozzmosis, and was back on tour doing what he called “The Retirement Sucks Tour.”
Also in the 1990s, Ozzy created Ozzfest, as managed by wife Sharon. With bragging rights to over five million metal-head attendees, Ozzfest has featured—besides a re-formed Sabbath–such hard rockers as Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Danzig, Disturbed, Drowning Pool, Godsmack, HIM, Incubus, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Otep, Pantera, Papa Roach, Sepultura, Slayer, Slipknot, System of a Down, and Velvet Revolver.
Has reportedly begun work on a Broadway musical about the Russian monk Grigory Rasputin.
2007 [May 22] - Released Black Rain
Performed the Black Rain song, “I Don’t Wanna Stop,” on WWE Smackdown, which became the theme song of the [Judgment] day.
Ozzy has also performed/worked with Kim Basinger [once Madonna recanted her back-up vocals for the re-mix version of “Shake Your Head (Let’s Go to Bed)”], Alice Cooper, Lita Ford, Sam Kinnison, Holly Knight, Miss Piggy, Gary Moore, Motorhead, Slash, Bill Ward, and Dweezil Zappa.
n.b. Information culled from such comprehensive sites as IMDB, MediaWiki, and ICS Ozzy Osbourne Archive/Database
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