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Most casual rock fans were never going to be prepared for what Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> was going to do in Black Sabbath. <\/p>\n Countless artists have tried to excite the audience every single time they went onstage, but even after getting used to Robert Plant\u2019s wails, hearing \u2018The Prince of Darkness\u2019 take to the stage looking like a madman that\u2019s been let off the chain, he clearly wasn\u2019t into the same tender-hearted ballads that John Lennon was used to singing at the time. He was taking no prisoners whenever he played, but he got a lot of his lessons from watching the true originators of rock and roll showmanship.<\/p>\n After all, what was Osbourne\u2019s onstage rapport if not a pale imitation of what people like Elvis Presley had done a few years ago? Sure, \u2018The King\u2019 might have been absolutely disgusted seeing what Osbourne was going to do every single night, but at the same time, both of them were known for their distinctive voices, being able to cause a stir from the minute they began playing, and were enough to excite any young fan wanting to hear something dark at the time.<\/p>\n Because think about it for a second: what was considered \u2018heavy\u2019 at the time Sabbath debuted? Led Zeppelin was a relatively new band when Sabbath\u2019s debut came out, and if we\u2019re talking about pure heavy rock and roll, the closest thing that most people had to something like that on the charts would have probably been the early Kinks singles like \u2018You Really Got Me\u2019<\/a> or \u2018All Day and All of the Night\u2019. <\/p>\n But if any band fit the bill of \u201cdangerous\u201d back in the day, it was The Rolling Stones. Even though The Beatles clearly had a lot of heavy tunes of their own in their back catalogue, you couldn\u2019t shake the idea of The Stones being the antithesis to the Liverpool lads\u2019 \u2018nice guy\u2019 persona. They all looked like they came out of the back alleys of London, but as soon as Osbourne heard Mick Jagger, he knew that no one else was ever going to compare to his tone.<\/p>\n