Bat out of Hell

Fans gathering at the Black Sabbath Bridge bench on Broad Street in Birmingham in memory of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, ahead of his body brought back to his home city for a procession following his death last week aged 76. Picture date: Wednesday July 30, 2025. (Photo by Jacob King/PA Images via Getty Images)
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A fan holds up a stuffed, Ozzy-branded bat, likely a nod to the infamous night he accidentally bit the head off a real bat during a show. In 2002, Osbourne joked to Rolling Stone: “I guarantee that if I was to die tonight, tomorrow it would be, ‘Ozzy Osbourne, the man who bit the head off a bat, died in his hotel room…’ I know that’s coming. But I’ve got no complaints. At least I’ll be remembered.”