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It\u2019s hard to think of anyone who could go out of their way to say they hated Ozzy Osbourne<\/a> towards the end of his life.\u00a0<\/p>\n There are many times when he was treated like one of the worst musicians that anyone could have ever seen in their children\u2019s record collection, but looking at the final years of his life, he was one of the few artists who seemed glad to have made it to old age and been revealed to be one of the more lovable characters in hard rock. But that\u2019s not to say that \u2018The Prince of Darkness\u2019 exactly hit it off with every single person he came in contact with or anything.<\/p>\n If you were to listen to any of the stories from his touring days, there\u2019s hardly anyone who has many bad stories to say about the former Black Sabbath frontman. The list of grievances that many people have had with Sharon Osbourne might pile up a lot higher, but the fact that Osbourne never really had that much of an issue with many of the bands that he took out was a testament to the kind of person he was. He simply wanted to play rock and roll, and the rest of the world was more than happy to let him.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that everyone treated him right in the Sabbath camp. He was already facing an uphill battle before he joined when Tony Iommi suggested they get someone else, but even when the magic was undeniable, the fact that they were being robbed blind by their managers certainly wasn\u2019t going to make for the best business meetings in between albums like Sabotage and Technical Ecstasy<\/a>. <\/p>\n And to add insult to injury, it probably didn\u2019t help that the band\u2019s opening acts were getting more and more over-the-top. Most of Sabbath\u2019s greatest performances usually let the music do the talking as Osbourne howls like a madman in front of the microphone, but getting Kiss to go out with them was never going to be a match made in heaven. But even if he was able to make peace with not taking the makeup icons out, Van Halen was where he truly started to get worried.<\/p>\n Sabbath were already going through a rough patch in their career, so having Eddie out there giving a clinic on guitar mastery wasn\u2019t exactly what the rest of the band wanted to hear. No one could have predicted they had a guitar god as their support act, but even if Osbourne was cool with Eddie, he had a lot less love for what David Lee Roth was doing whenever he saw him off the stage. <\/p>\n