Thank you Ozzy...

We lost Ozzy Osbourne today.

 

The above screengrab is from his brief cameo in 1986's Trick or Treat (and I feel obligated to say, 'not to be confused with 2007's Trick 'r Treat).  

My relationship with Ozzy is a complicated one.  I got into Black Sabbath as a teen starting with the Ronnie James Dio-fronted Mob Rules album.  I was into Ozzy for about two albums:  Bark at the Moon (which my best friend let me dub tape-to-tape from his original copy), and I purchased The Ultimate Sin which was a high-rotation play on MTV.  

 

Then he was just 'on'--- on the Top 40 radio station ("Mama I'm Comin' Home"), or on the local AOR classic rock station ("Flyin' High Again," or classic Sabbath tracks), or on the news for various reasons. 

 

But speaking for Halloween, he was in the film Trick or Treat playing a Reverend raging against the evil of heavy metal and Sammi Curr (the villain of the supernatural horror slasher film) lending gravitas to an '80s slasher movie that may have been forgotten if not for KISS's Gene Simmons as a DJ, Ozzy's cameo, and Marc Price (who was known at the time as "Skippy" from Michael J. Fox's hit TV show Family Ties).

I place this remembrance here because I've never known a world without Ozzy in it.

And as long as a person's name is remembered, they achieve some form of immortality.

Thank you, Ozzy.