God Bless Ozzy Osbourne directed by his son Jack and gives us a tour from hell to high and back again for then to rediscover his roots & his family. For any Ozzy fan this is one great documentary. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne!

Ozzy Osbournes’ four-decade track record as a culturally relevant musical artist is unprecedented, but his personal struggles have been shrouded in myth and secrecy. In some ways, Ozzy’s fame has been predicated on his prodigious drug and alcohol intake, his musical accomplishments overshadowed by his “Madman” persona.

Emerging from a working class family in war-torn England, Osbourne and his neighborhood friends formed Black Sabbath and invented heavy metal. For ten years, Ozzy was happy to feed the myth of the Rock and Roll Wildman, living a life that was extreme even by the most bacchanalian standards of his chosen profession.

The Life worked for a while, but then it began to back-fire. He lost his family, his wife, even his livelihood when Black Sabbath fired him. The glamour had been leached away, the fun had faded. What was left was an alcoholic with a death sentence.

Astonishingly, he resuscitated himself back from the brink of extinction, thanks in no small part to his wife and manager Sharon, who engineering a comeback that was as unlikely as it was triumphant. Ozzy became one of the biggest-selling artists of the 80’s, recording the albums BLIZZARD OF OZZ and DIARY OF A MADMAN – records that remain cultural touchstones for three generations of music fans. The opening riff of Osbourne’s song “Crazy Train” is as familiar now as The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” or The Beatles’ “Day Tripper.”

The Madman persona was solidified when Ozzy bit the head off of a dove during a record company meeting. Then he bit into a bat onstage. He was Crazy. He loved it, and his fans loved it even more.

But the good times didn’t take. Tragedy befell Osbourne when his musical collaborator Randy Rhoads was killed in a plane crash while on tour in 1982. Rhoad’s passing, along with the death of Osbourne’s father, sent Ozzy into a tailspin that lasted almost 30 years. Even when Osbourne was reborn as a Reality-TV icon with his show “The Osbournes,” he was lost to his addictions, a major success even at the lowest ebb of his life.

God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first rock documentary to tell the story of a major icon’s torturous and emotionally fraught journey to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment. Featuring interviews with his brothers and sisters, as well as Jack, Sharon, Aimee and Kelly Osbourne, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is a film about the intoxicating rush of success and the redemption that comes from pulling away from the very thing that made you successful.

Featuring never-before seen footage uncovered from the archives and interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Henry Rollins and others, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne is the first documentary to take viewers inside the mind and psyche of a legendary and timeless cultural figure.


Appearing in GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNRE

Ozzy Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne
Sir Paul McCartney
Tommy Lee
Jack Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne
Aimee Osbourne
Henry Rollins
John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Bill Ward (Black Sabbath)
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
Terry ‘Geezer’ Butler (Black Sabbath)
Robert Trujillo (Metallica)

GOD BLESS OZZY OSBOURNE

Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli
Produced by: Jack Osbourne, Marc Weingarten
Produced by Jordan Tappis
Executive Producer: Sharon Osbourne
Music by Mike Einziger

You can view the GBOO trailer at http://www.youtube.com/godblessozzyosbourne#p/u/3/ajq9xfCyno8

There are also a few clips posted on the main page http://www.youtube.com/godblessozzyosbourne

Jack Osbourne Short Bio
“I decided to make this documentary because I felt that my fathers story has never truly been told. It has been a rocky road to finally get we are now, and I am excited to show the world who the real Ozzy Osbourne is.”--Jack Osbourne

Jack Osbourne is no stranger to the lure and pitfalls of celebrity. Already a TV veteran at 26, Osbourne was the co-star of The Osbournes, the highest-rated series in MTV history. Osbourne’s series Adrenaline Junkie has appeared in over 100 countries and 6 continents. Osbourne recently ventured into music video, directing the clip for his father’s song “Life Won’t Wait.” Along with his partners Mike Fleiss and Marc Weingarten, Osbourne is about to embark on his next feature subject: The life of Tommy Lee.