Fred MacDowell

Decided to do a thread of tweets by year. I didn't go back past 1099, so.

Adon Olam, performed by Black Sabbath open.spotify.com/track/3EUJS9hm…

And here's a very unkind preshow review of Black Sabbath's appearance at the Whisky - "England's revenge for Grand Funk."

In 1970 you could have seen Bruce Springsteen open for Black Sabbath. (In Steel Mill)

Winning that poll told him what was going on, and it spurred him to become better, and really blossom as a creative person. Secondly, the Yellow Pages. Randy Rhoads famously sought local guitar teachers to get Classical lessons on the road. Here's a picture of it. (Ozzy is 🖕🏽)

Here's Ozzy in his Blizzard of Oz t shirt while still with Sabbath.

Ozzy showing up to a CBGB matinee

Aww, cute chubby little Ozzy.

I did not realize that the lawyer (?) for the grieving parents who sued Ozzy Osbourne in a particularly dumb moment of moral panic in America, was named Chickie Kleiner.

Ozzy Osbourne, 1986: "I don't understand them. There's far greater issues in American than rock 'n' roll. More people die from sales of firearms than from rock 'n' roll records."